Application of Functional Connectivity Analysis in TMS Treatment Evaluation for Patients with Mental Disorder

Psychoradiology is one of the new areas in neuroscience that aims to help diagnose and treatment of patients with neurological diseases using neuroimaging techniques. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a promising treatment modality for psychiatric and neurological disorders. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) as one of the main neuroimaging techniques, is a suitable method to reflect the functional integrity of the brain. Changes in Functional brain Connectivity (FC) are expected to provide potential biomarkers for the classification or prediction of brain disorders. In this paper, with the aim of helping people with mental disorders, we propose a neuroimaging-based method, using resting state MRI imaging and graph-based functional connectivity analysis. This method can be used in the field of medical diagnosis and specialized brain stimulation treatment with TMS to provide accurate and reliable medical services for radiologists and neurologists.