Extraction of brain function pattern with visual-capture-task fMRI using dynamic time-window method in ADHD children

Attention deficit/Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has a great impact on children's development. This paper uses a novel adaptive brain state extraction algorithm to construct a dynamic time-window brain network, which captures the brain function pattern characteristics of ADHD children with higher temporal resolution. The test data were acquired by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) obtained from 23 children with ADHD during the visual-capture-task [age: (8.27 ± 2.77)]. A spatial standard deviation method is used after the initial data processing, to extract the brain activity pattern state; An improved clustering algorithm is constructed to verify the changes made to the dynamic time-window brain network model. There can be seen clear differences between each state within 0.05 s after the test. The results show that our improved new framework can effectively obtain the characteristics of dynamic brain functional connection strength changes during the task. In addition, the new algorithm is able to capture the dynamic changes of the brain network, with an 80 % improvement compared to traditional methods for the average modularity value Q. This work demonstrates a novel approach to find out the pattern changes between dynamic brain function connections, which can be of great significance for the adjuvant treatment of children with ADHD. •Segmentation of subjects' task-state fMRI data using an adaptive time-window segmentation algorithm.•Extracting repetitive patterns of subjects' brain networks during task-state experiments.•Compared with the modes obtained by the constant time window partition, the modularity value Q of the repeated mode obtained by the adaptive partition algorithm is significantly improved.