A comparison of multivariate causality based measures of effective connectivity

Authors:
Meng-Hung Wu;Richard E. Frye;George Zouridakis
Affiliations:
Departments of Computer Science, South Texas College, 3201 W. Pecan Blvd., McAllen, TX 78501, USA;Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Slot 512-41B, Room R4025, 13 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA;Departments of Computer Science, University of Houston, 218 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX 77204, USA and Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 218 Philip ...
Venue:
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Year:
2011

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Abstract

During the past several years a variety of methods have been developed to estimate the effective connectivity of neural networks from measurements of brain activity in an attempt to study causal interactions among distinct brain areas. Understanding the relative strengths and weaknesses of these methods, the assumptions they rely on, the accuracy they provide, and the computation time they require is of paramount importance in selecting the optimal method for a particular experimental task and for interpreting the results obtained. In this paper, the accuracy of the six most commonly used techniques for calculating effective connectivity are compared, namely directed transfer function, partial directed coherence, squared partial directed coherence, full frequency directed transfer function, direct directed transfer function, and Granger causality. These measures are derived from the coefficients and error terms of autoregressive models calculated using the dynamic autoregressive neuromagnetic causal imaging (DANCI) algorithm. These techniques were evaluated using magnetoencephalography recordings as well as several synthetic datasets that simulate neurophysiological signals, which varied on several parameters, including network size, signal-to-noise ratio, and network complexity, etc. The results show that Granger causality is the most accurate method across all experimental conditions explored and suggest that large multisensor data sets can be accurately analyzed using Granger causality with the DANCI algorithm.