Graph theory is a valuable framework to study brain connectivity and has been widely applied to investigate pathological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS). However, differences in topology between groups of subjects could be affected by discrepancy in density. Here we propose to use microstructure informed tractography to directly account for such density differences and provide a fair comparison between MS patients and healthy subjects. Our results show the capability of the proposed method to control for density and support the appropriateness of global efficiency and clustering coefficient for the characterization of comprehensive functions such as cognition in MS.
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