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Converging evidence shows that disease-relevant brain alterations do not appear in random brain locations, instead, its spatial pattern follows large scale brain networks. In this context, a powerful network analysis approach with a mathematical foundation is indispensable to understand the mechanism of neuropathological events spreading throughout the brain. Indeed, the topology of each brain network is governed by its native harmonic waves, which are a set of orthogonal bases derived from the Eigen-system of the underlying Laplacian matrix. To that end, we propose a novel connectome harmonic analysis framework to provide enhanced mathematical insights by detecting frequency-based alterations relevant to brain disorders. The backbone of our framework is a novel manifold algebra appropriate for inference across harmonic waves that overcomes the limitations of using classic Euclidean operations on irregular data structures. The individual harmonic difference is measured by a set of common harmonic waves learned from a population of individual Eigen systems, where each native Eigen-system is regarded as a sample drawn from the Stiefel manifold. Specifically, a manifold optimization scheme is tailored to find the common harmonic waves which reside at the center of Stiefel manifold. To that end, the common harmonic waves constitute the new neuro-biological bases to understand disease progression. Each harmonic wave exhibits a unique propagation pattern of neuro-pathological burdens spreading across brain networks. The statistical power of our novel connectome harmonic analysis approach is evaluated by identifying frequency-based alterations relevant to Alzheimers disease, where our learning-based manifold approach discovers more significant and reproducible network dysfunction patterns compared to Euclidian methods.
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