TABLE 3.
Summary of informative brain regions or networks determined by classification between ASD and TD usingFCs as features.
| Authors | Brain atlas | Informative brain regions or networks contributing to theclassification between ASD and TD |
| Anderson et al. (2011) | 7,266 regions | The DMN, superior parietal lobule, fusiform gyrus and anterior insula |
| Wang et al. (2012) | The AAL atlas | Weak functional connections between the frontal lobe and the rest of the cortex |
| Murdaugh et al. (2012) | The AAL atlas | The PCC, PCUN, and MFC |
| Nielsen et al. (2013) | 7,266 regions | The DMN, parahippocampaland fusiform gyri, insula, Wernicke area, and intraparietal sulcus |
| Deshpande et al. (2013) | 18 self-defined ROIs | Functional connections between the fusiform face area and middle temporal gyrus |
| Iidaka (2015) | The AAL atlas | The medial part of the superior frontal gyrus, anterior and posterior cingulate cortices, and thalamus |
| Chen et al. (2015) | The Power atlas | Default mode, somatosensory/motor (hand region), and visual networks The left anterior cingulate gyrus, bilateral postcentral gyrus, right PCUN, left calcarine sulcus, the left paracentral lobule and the right postcentral gyrus |
| Plitt et al. (2015) | The Power atlas The Destrieux atlas The DiMartino atlas |
The insula, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, anterior, middle, and posterior regions of cingulate cortex, supplementary motor cortex, anterior temporal lobes, posterior aspects of the fusiform gyrus, posterior superior temporal sulcus, temporal parietal junction, intraparietal sulcus, and inferior and middle frontal gyri, bilaterally Default-mode network, the frontal-parietal control network |
| Yahata et al. (2016) | Sulci-based anatomical atlas | 16 discriminative functional connections The cingulo-opercular network |
| Dodero et al. (2015b) | The Power atlas | Red: left precentral gyrus-left occipital pole, left precentral gyrus-left precentral gyrus, left superior frontal gyrus-right lateral occipital cortex, right superior frontal gyrus-right parietal operculum Blue: right frontal medial cortex-right precentral gyrus, left caudate-right precentral gyrus, left putamen-right precentral gyrus, right frontal pole-right lateral occipital cortex |
| Abraham et al. (2017) | The HO atlas The Yeo atlas The CC200 atlas |
DMN, Pareto-insular network and semantic ROIs |
| Guo et al. (2017) | The AAL atlas | 32 most significant FC mainly from or cross different pre-defined brain networks including the default-mode, cingulo-opercular, frontal-parietal, and cerebellum |
| Heinsfeld et al. (2018) | 7,266 regions | The regions with the highest anticorrelation: paracingulate gyrus, supramarginal gyrus, and middle temporal gyrus The regions with the highest correlation: occipital pole, and lateral occipital cortex; superior division |
| Bi et al. (2018) | The AAL atlas | The right IFG (opercular part), the right PCUN, superior frontal gyrus (orbital part), the left inferior occipital gyrus, the right hippocampus, the bilateral superior frontal gyrus (dorsolateral), the right median cingulate and paracingulate gyri, the right posterior cingulate gyrus, the left supramarginal gyrus, the right thalamus, the right superior, and middle temporal gyrus |
| Bhaumik et al. (2018) | The Brodmann’s areas ROIs | Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, somatosensory association cortex, primary auditory cortex, inferior temporal gyrus and temporopolar area |
| Fredo et al. (2019) | The Gordon’s cortical atlas The HO atlas |
COTC, visual, DA, DMN, and SMH |
| Liu Y. et al. (2020) | The CC200 atlas | Lower correlation between the anterior and posterior DMN in autistic individuals |
| Sherkatghanad et al. (2020) | The CC400 atlas | The right supramarginal gyrus, the fusiform gyrus, the cerebellar vermis (C115, C188, C247, and C326) |
| Zhao et al. (2020) | The AAL atlas | Precentral gyrus, middle frontal gyrus, middle cingulate gyrus, posterior cingulate gyrus, amygdala, angular gyrus |
| Huang et al. (2020) | The CC200 atlas | 20 discriminative functional connections |
| Reiter et al. (2021) | The Gordon atlas The HO atlas |
COTC, visual, SMH, DMN, and DA |
Abbreviations: ASD, autism spectrum disorder; TD, typically developing; FC, functional connectivity; DMN, default mode network; AAL, Automated Anatomical Labeling; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; PCUN, precuneus; MFC, medial prefrontal cortex; ROI, region of interest; HO, Harvard Oxford; IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; COTC, cingulo-opercular task control; DA, dorsal attention; SMH, somatosensory motor hand.