Method to identify diffuse axonal injury in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients from structural connectivity patterns.
Network-based statistics (NBS) is used to find significant network differences in mTBI and controls.
Fractional anisotropy (FA) features of the different structural connections obtained from NBS used as features.
Random forest classifier discriminates between mTBI and controls based on FA features.
Discriminative and significant network differences obtained from feature importance of random forest.