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20152026
most citedAnalyzing Dynamical Brain Functional Connectivity As Trajectories on Space of Covariance Matrices

39 citations · 141 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

stat.ME2026

Bayesian Estimation of Continuous Brain Connectivity with Log-Gaussian Cox Processes

Jaehoan Kim, William Consagra, Debdeep Pati +1

Continuous structural connectivity describes the connection between any two points of the cortical surface by an intensity function. Based on the endpoints of tractography streamli…

cs.CV2026

Verifier-Guided Synthetic Augmentation for 3D Human Shape Generation

Yuexuan Wu, Yang Xiang, Hamid Laga +3

Limited training data diversity constrains generative modeling of 3D human bodies: conservative models remain close to observed examples, whereas exploratory models often violate b…

cs.CV2026

ConSEAL: Connectivity-Informed Streamline Endpoint Alignment for Diffeomorphic Cortical Registration

Yang Xiang, Martin Cole, Zhengwu Zhang

Cortical surface registration is often driven by local geometric descriptors (e.g., sulcal depth and curvature). While this approach achieves geometric correspondence, it neglects…

cs.LG2026

Attention-Based Variational Framework for Joint and Individual Components Learning with Applications in Brain Network Analysis

Yifei Zhang, Meimei Liu, Zhengwu Zhang

Brain organization is increasingly characterized through multiple imaging modalities, most notably structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC). Integrating these…

stat.ME2023

Joint Semi-Symmetric Tensor PCA for Integrating Multi-modal Populations of Networks

Jiaming Liu, Lili Zheng, Zhengwu Zhang +1

Multi-modal populations of networks arise in many scenarios including in large-scale multi-modal neuroimaging studies that capture both functional and structural neuroimaging data…

stat.CO2023★ 1 cited

Continuous and Atlas-free Analysis of Brain Structural Connectivity

William Consagra, Martin Cole, Xing Qiu +1

Brain structural networks are often represented as discrete adjacency matrices with elements summarizing the connectivity between pairs of regions of interest (ROIs). These ROIs ar…

stat.ME2023

High-dimensional Response Growth Curve Modeling for Longitudinal Neuroimaging Analysis

Lu Wang, Xiang Lyu, Zhengwu Zhang +1

There is increasing interest in modeling high-dimensional longitudinal outcomes in applications such as developmental neuroimaging research. Growth curve model offers a useful tool…

stat.AP2023

Nonparametric Modeling of Diffusion MRI Signal in Q-space

Arkaprava Roy, Zhou Lan, Zhengwu Zhang

This paper describes a novel nonparametric model for modeling diffusion MRI signals in q-space. In q-space, diffusion MRI signal is measured for a sequence of magnetic strengths (b…

stat.AP2022★ 1 cited

Genetic underpinnings of brain structural connectome for young adults

Yize Zhao, Changgee Chang, Jingwen Zhang +1

With distinct advantages in power over behavioral phenotypes, brain imaging traits have become emerging endophenotypes to dissect molecular contributions to behaviors and neuropsyc…

q-bio.NC2022

Motion-Invariant Variational Auto-Encoding of Brain Structural Connectomes

Yizi Zhang, Meimei Liu, Zhengwu Zhang +1

Mapping of human brain structural connectomes via diffusion MRI offers a unique opportunity to understand brain structural connectivity and relate it to various human traits, such…

stat.ME2022

Tree Representations of Brain Structural Connectivity via Persistent Homology

Didong Li, Phuc Nguyen, Zhengwu Zhang +1

The brain structural connectome is generated by a collection of white matter fiber bundles constructed from diffusion weighted MRI (dMRI), acting as highways for neural activity. T…

q-bio.NC2022★ 4 cited

Interpretable AI for relating brain structural and functional connectomes

Haoming Yang, Steven Winter, Zhengwu Zhang +1

One of the central problems in neuroscience is understanding how brain structure relates to function. Naively one can relate the direct connections of white matter fiber tracts bet…

stat.CO2022

Analyzing Brain Structural Connectivity as Continuous Random Functions

William Consagra, Martin Cole, Zhengwu Zhang

This work considers a continuous framework to characterize the population-level variability of structural connectivity. Our framework assumes the observed white matter fiber tract…

stat.ME2022★ 5 cited

Outlier Detection for Multi-Network Data

Pritam Dey, Zhengwu Zhang, David B. Dunson

It has become routine in neuroscience studies to measure brain networks for different individuals using neuroimaging. These networks are typically expressed as adjacency matrices,…

stat.ME2022

Low Tree-Rank Bayesian Vector Autoregression Model

Leo L. Duan, Zeyu Yuwen, George Michailidis +1

Vector autoregression has been widely used for modeling and analysis of multivariate time series data. In high-dimensional settings, model parameter regularization schemes inducing…

eess.SP2021★ 2 cited

Learning to Model the Relationship Between Brain Structural and Functional Connectomes

Yang Li, Gonzalo Mateos, Zhengwu Zhang

Recent advances in neuroimaging along with algorithmic innovations in statistical learning from network data offer a unique pathway to integrate brain structure and function, and t…

stat.ML2021

Amplitude Mean of Functional Data on

Zhengwu Zhang, Bayan Saparbayeva

Manifold-valued functional data analysis (FDA) recently becomes an active area of research motivated by the raising availability of trajectories or longitudinal data observed on no…

stat.AP2021

Optimized Diffusion Imaging for Brain Structural Connectome Analysis

William Consagra, Arun Venkataraman, Zhengwu Zhang

High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) is a type of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) that measures diffusion signals on a sphere in q-space. It has been widel…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

High-Dimensional Spatial Quantile Function-on-Scalar Regression

Zhengwu Zhang, Xiao Wang, Linglong Kong +1

This paper develops a novel spatial quantile function-on-scalar regression model, which studies the conditional spatial distribution of a high-dimensional functional response given…

stat.ME2020

Multivariate functional responses low rank regression with an application to brain imaging data

Xiucai Ding, Dengdeng Yu, Zhengwu Zhang +1

We propose a multivariate functional responses low rank regression model with possible high dimensional functional responses and scalar covariates. By expanding the slope functions…

stat.ME2020★ 2 cited

Multi-scale graph principal component analysis for connectomics

Steven Winter, Zhengwu Zhang, David Dunson

In brain connectomics, the cortical surface is parcellated into different regions of interest (ROIs) prior to statistical analysis. The brain connectome for each individual can the…

stat.ML2019

Auto-encoding brain networks with applications to analyzing large-scale brain imaging datasets

Meimei Liu, Zhengwu Zhang, David B. Dunson

There has been huge interest in studying human brain connectomes inferred from different imaging modalities and exploring their relationship with human traits, such as cognition. B…

stat.ME2019

Soft Tensor Regression

Georgia Papadogeorgou, Zhengwu Zhang, David B. Dunson

Statistical methods relating tensor predictors to scalar outcomes in a regression model generally vectorize the tensor predictor and estimate the coefficients of its entries employ…

stat.AP2019★ 1 cited

Learning Signal Subgraphs from Longitudinal Brain Networks with Symmetric Bilinear Logistic Regression

Lu Wang, Zhengwu Zhang

Modern neuroimaging technologies, combined with state-of-the-art data processing pipelines, have made it possible to collect longitudinal observations of an individual's brain conn…