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It also helps to identify connectivity signatures that can be used for evaluating neural disorders and monitoring treatment efficacy. In this work, age-related changes in brain connectivity are studied to obtain aging signatures based on various modeling techniques. These include an energy-based machine learning technique to identify brain network interaction differences between two age groups with a large (30 years) age gap between them. Disconnectivity graphs and activation maps of the seven prominent resting-state networks (RSN) were obtained from functional MRI data of old and young adult subjects. Two-sample t-tests were performed on the local minimums with Bonferroni correction to control the family-wise error rate. These local minimums are connectivity states showing not only which brain regions but also how strong they are working together. They work as aging signatures that can be used to differentiate young and old groups. We found that the attention network\u2019s connectivity signature is a state with all the regions working together and young subjects have a stronger average connectivity among these regions. We have also found a common pattern between young and old subjects where the left and right brain regions of the frontal network are sometimes working separately instead of together. In summary, in this work, we combined machine learning and statistical approaches to extract connectivity signatures, which can be utilized to distinguish aging brains and monitor possible treatment efficacy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23031603","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,2]],"date-time":"2023-02-02T01:53:54Z","timestamp":1675302834000},"page":"1603","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Age Related Functional Connectivity Signature Extraction Using Energy-Based Machine Learning Techniques"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8862-0049","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sravani","family":"Varanasi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Roopan","family":"Tuli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2454-4187","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fei","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Hilltop Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9613-6110","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fow-Sen","family":"Choa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"20","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pneurobio.2014.02.004","article-title":"What is normal in normal aging? 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