Brain Surface Can Predict Fiber Connections

It has been of great interest to study relationship between white matter and gray matter in brain science. Previous studies have found that that the formation of gray matter is closely related to white matter. This paper attempts explore the relationship between cerebral cortex and white matter from the perspective of brain image, which tries to predict fiber connection information by using brain cortical information alone. The extensive experiments on HCP dataset demonstrate that brain cortical surface can be used to predict the presence or absence of fibers between any two cortical regions with about 80% accuracy, furtherly, it can be used to predict the fractional anisotropy (FA) value for each fiber, the experiments show that the FA value can be also predicted with a percentage error of about 20%. These results demonstrate that the brain surface can be used to predict fiber connection information, and there is a close relationship between the gray matter and white matter fiber. This work provides a new perspective for further study of the relationship between cerebral cortex and axonal fiber.