Replicability of time-varying connectivity patterns in large resting state fMRI samples

&NA; The past few years have seen an emergence of approaches that leverage temporal changes in whole‐brain patterns of functional connectivity (the chronnectome). In this chronnectome study, we investigate the replicability of the human brain's inter‐regional coupling dynamics during rest by evaluating two different dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) analysis frameworks using 7 500 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets. To quantify the extent to which the emergent functional connectivity (FC) patterns are reproducible, we characterize the temporal dynamics by deriving several summary measures across multiple large, independent age‐matched samples. Reproducibility was demonstrated through the existence of basic connectivity patterns (FC states) amidst an ensemble of inter‐regional connections. Furthermore, application of the methods to conservatively configured (statistically stationary, linear and Gaussian) surrogate datasets revealed that some of the studied state summary measures were indeed statistically significant and also suggested that this class of null model did not explain the fMRI data fully. This extensive testing of reproducibility of similarity statistics also suggests that the estimated FC states are robust against variation in data quality, analysis, grouping, and decomposition methods. We conclude that future investigations probing the functional and neurophysiological relevance of time‐varying connectivity assume critical importance. HighlightsReplicability in dynamic functional connectivity state measures was investigated.Twenty‐eight samples each with two hundred and fifty rest‐fMRI datasets were studied.State profiles were modelled using two (clustering and fuzzy meta‐state) approaches.Both approaches showed high consistency for a range of model orders.Surrogate testing confirmed state summary measures to be statistically significant.

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