Postsurgical perilesional functional connectivity predicts neurological outcome in glioma patients

Overall, our study showed that resting-state fMRI from patients after glioma resection is relevant to their long-term neurological outcomes: decreased connectivity in the perilesional regions compared to the contralateral regions indicates less survival time and worsened functional outcomes. The reported analytics from postsurgical fMRI scans, combined with the machine learning model, could provide important prognostic information for postsurgical recovery management.