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arxiv: 2507.23057 · v2 · submitted 2025-07-30 · 📡 eess.SP · q-bio.NC

Presurgical Neural Energy Landscapes Predict Postoperative Working Memory Outcome After Brain Tumor Resection

Triet M. Tran , Sina Khanmohammadi This is my paper

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The pith

Presurgical energy landscapes from high-order brain interactions predict postoperative working memory outcomes after tumor resection.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper sets out to test whether maps of brain state transitions extracted from presurgical fMRI can forecast how well patients will perform on a spatial working memory task after brain tumor removal. It finds that patients who later score lower on the Spatial Span test show fewer but sharper jumps between energy peaks and valleys, while those who score higher display more frequent but gentler shifts. A random forest model trained on these energy features reaches 90 percent accuracy in classifying the postoperative outcome. If the link holds, surgeons could use routine presurgical scans to estimate cognitive risk and adjust their approach to protect memory function.

Core claim

The authors claim that tumor-induced changes in high-order neural dynamics, quantified as energy landscapes before surgery, reliably predict whether a patient will have lower (2-5) or higher (6-9) postoperative Spatial Span scores, with the lower-scoring group showing fewer but more extreme transitions between local energy minima and maxima.

What carries the argument

Energy landscapes of high-order brain interactions, which describe the frequency and magnitude of transitions between local energy minima and maxima derived from presurgical fMRI.

If this is right

  • Presurgical fMRI energy features could be used to estimate a patient's risk of working memory decline before choosing a surgical route.
  • Patients exhibiting fewer extreme energy transitions may require extra precautions or postoperative support to preserve spatial memory.
  • High-order interaction patterns carry outcome information beyond what standard pairwise connectivity measures provide.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same energy-landscape approach might be tested for predicting other cognitive domains such as attention or language after resection.
  • If the patterns prove stable, they could serve as a baseline for monitoring whether preoperative interventions alter energy transitions and improve outcomes.
  • Similar energy metrics in non-tumor populations could reveal whether natural variation in these transitions tracks everyday working memory differences.

Load-bearing premise

The observed energy landscape differences reflect tumor effects on brain dynamics rather than being driven by tumor location, size, or other unmeasured clinical factors.

What would settle it

A replication study that matches patients on tumor location and size, then finds that energy features no longer separate low- and high-scoring groups above chance level, would falsify the predictive claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2507.23057 by Sina Khanmohammadi, Triet M. Tran.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: High-order energy landscape framework. (A) Identifying Functional Clusters: Resting-state fMRI signals are grouped into functionally similar clusters using k-means algorithm. Each cluster represents a group of brain regions with similar activity. (B) Extracting Brain States: The average signal from each cluster is converted into binary states (active = 1 and inactive = 0) based on a threshold (e.g. mean va… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Distributions of energy values across canonical and high-order networks. Distributions of the (A) top 20% highest and (B) top 20% lowest energy values are shown for the default mode, salience, sensorimotor, limbic, and high-order networks. Values are compared between low (green) and high (orange) working memory groups, with p-values from Mann-Whitney U tests displayed for each comparison. Next, we examine … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of energy transition features for low vs. high work￾ing memory (WM) groups. (A) Boxplots showing the number of transitions between local minima and maxima in the energy landscapes derived from the high-order approach (k-means) and four canonical networks (default mode, salience, sensorimotor, limbic). (B) Boxplots of the transition magnitude, de￾fined as the absolute difference in energy when mo… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Classification performance based on random forest models. The figure presents the distribution of (A) Accuracy, (B) F1 Score, and (C) Area Under the Curve (AUC) obtained from random forest classifiers trained with five different feature sets: high-order, default mode, salience, sensorimotor, and limbic networks. Each boxplot summarizes results from 30 repetitions of leave￾one-out cross-validation (LOOCV). … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of the contribution of top energy landscape features in predicting working memory performance. Bar plots showing the mean proportion of contribution in the top-S most important features as identified by random forest models. Error bars indicate standard error of the mean across multiple model runs. The p-values above each pair represent statistical com￾parisons between the two groups of feature … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Surgical resection is the primary treatment option for brain tumor patients, but it carries the risk of postoperative cognitive impairments. This study investigates how tumor-induced alterations in presurgical neural dynamics relate to postoperative working memory outcome assessed by Spatial Span (SSP) test. We analyzed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of brain tumor patients before surgery and extracted energy landscapes of high-order brain interactions. We then examined the relation between these energy features and postoperative working memory performance using statistical and machine learning (random forest) models. Patients with lower postoperative SSP Scores (2 to 5) exhibited fewer but more extreme transitions between local energy minima and maxima, whereas patients with higher SSP Scores (6 to 9) showed more frequent but less extreme shifts. Furthermore, the presurgical high-order energy features were able to accurately predict postoperative working memory outcome with a mean accuracy of 90%, F1 score of 87.5%, and an AUC of 0.95. Our study suggests that the brain tumor-induced disruptions in high-order neural dynamics before surgery are predictive of postoperative working memory outcome. Our findings pave the path for personalized surgical planning and targeted interventions to mitigate cognitive risks associated with brain tumor resection.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript analyzes presurgical fMRI data from brain tumor patients to extract high-order energy landscapes and relates these to postoperative working memory outcomes measured by the Spatial Span (SSP) test. It reports distinct transition patterns between energy minima and maxima: patients with lower postoperative SSP scores (2–5) exhibit fewer but more extreme transitions, while those with higher scores (6–9) show more frequent but less extreme shifts. A random forest classifier trained on these presurgical energy features is reported to predict postoperative SSP outcome with mean accuracy 90%, F1 score 87.5%, and AUC 0.95, suggesting utility for personalized surgical planning.

Significance. If the predictive relationship is shown to be robust under proper validation and confound control, the work could meaningfully advance preoperative risk assessment in neurosurgery by linking tumor-induced alterations in high-order neural dynamics to functional cognitive outcomes. The energy-landscape framing of fMRI interactions offers a potentially distinctive lens compared with conventional connectivity metrics. However, the absence of basic reporting on cohort size, validation, and baselines currently prevents assessment of whether the claimed performance reflects genuine predictive signal or methodological artifacts.

major comments (3)
  1. [Methods] Methods: No sample size (N), cross-validation scheme, feature dimensionality, or permutation baseline is reported for the random forest model that yields the central performance figures (90% accuracy, AUC 0.95). Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the quoted metrics are consistent with overfitting on a modest single-center cohort or reflect genuine generalization of the high-order energy features.
  2. [Results] Results: The manuscript provides no comparison of the energy-feature model against a baseline using only clinical variables (tumor location, size, grade, or laterality). Because tumor location can simultaneously influence both fMRI energy extrema and postoperative SSP deficit, the absence of this control leaves open the possibility that the reported accuracy is driven by location confounds rather than the claimed high-order dynamics.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract and Results: The claim that “presurgical high-order energy features were able to accurately predict” outcome rests on a fitted classifier whose robustness cannot be evaluated from the supplied text. Standard reporting elements required to support this claim—N, train/test split or CV folds, and any statistical test on the transition-pattern differences—are missing.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The SSP score ranges (2–5 vs. 6–9) are stated without reference to the normative range or maximum possible score on the Spatial Span test, which would aid interpretation of what constitutes “lower” versus “higher” performance.
  2. [Discussion] Discussion: A brief comparison to prior fMRI or connectivity-based predictors of post-resection cognitive outcome would help situate the incremental value of the energy-landscape approach.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments. We have reviewed each point carefully and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the reporting of methods, add necessary controls, and clarify the validation procedures supporting our claims. Point-by-point responses follow.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods: No sample size (N), cross-validation scheme, feature dimensionality, or permutation baseline is reported for the random forest model that yields the central performance figures (90% accuracy, AUC 0.95). Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the quoted metrics are consistent with overfitting on a modest single-center cohort or reflect genuine generalization of the high-order energy features.

    Authors: We agree that these details are essential for readers to assess model robustness and rule out overfitting. The initial submission omitted explicit reporting of these elements. In the revised manuscript we will add the cohort size, a clear description of the cross-validation procedure, the dimensionality of the energy-landscape feature set, and results from a permutation test that establishes a chance-level baseline for the reported accuracy, F1, and AUC. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results: The manuscript provides no comparison of the energy-feature model against a baseline using only clinical variables (tumor location, size, grade, or laterality). Because tumor location can simultaneously influence both fMRI energy extrema and postoperative SSP deficit, the absence of this control leaves open the possibility that the reported accuracy is driven by location confounds rather than the claimed high-order dynamics.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of this control analysis. In the revised manuscript we will introduce a baseline random-forest model trained exclusively on clinical variables (tumor location, size, grade, and laterality) and directly compare its performance metrics with those obtained from the high-order energy features. This addition will allow readers to evaluate the incremental predictive contribution of the energy-landscape measures beyond standard clinical information. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and Results: The claim that “presurgical high-order energy features were able to accurately predict” outcome rests on a fitted classifier whose robustness cannot be evaluated from the supplied text. Standard reporting elements required to support this claim—N, train/test split or CV folds, and any statistical test on the transition-pattern differences—are missing.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and results should contain the minimal information needed to evaluate the predictive claim. In the revision we will update the abstract to reference the sample size and validation approach, and we will expand the results section to report the cross-validation scheme together with appropriate statistical tests (e.g., permutation or non-parametric tests) comparing transition-pattern statistics between the low- and high-SSP-score groups. revision: yes

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

Random forest accuracy on same-cohort energy features presented as presurgical prediction

specific steps
  1. fitted input called prediction [Abstract]
    "Furthermore, the presurgical high-order energy features were able to accurately predict postoperative working memory outcome with a mean accuracy of 90%, F1 score of 87.5%, and an AUC of 0.95."

    Energy features are computed from the identical patient cohort whose postoperative SSP scores are then used to train and evaluate the random forest; the reported accuracy is therefore the training-set performance of a model fitted to those same features and labels, not an out-of-sample prediction.

full rationale

The paper extracts high-order energy landscape features from presurgical fMRI of the studied patients, fits a random forest classifier to postoperative SSP scores within that cohort, and reports 90% accuracy / 0.95 AUC as evidence that the features 'predict' outcome. Because no cross-validation scheme, held-out test set, or external cohort is described, the quoted performance metrics are the in-sample fit rather than an independent prediction. This matches the fitted-input-called-prediction pattern and accounts for the moderate circularity burden noted in the reader's assessment.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The claim rests on the domain assumption that fMRI time series can be faithfully mapped to a high-order energy landscape whose transition statistics carry prognostic information; no explicit free parameters or new entities are named in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption fMRI BOLD signals can be used to construct high-order interaction energy landscapes whose local minima and maxima reflect functionally relevant brain states
    Core modeling premise invoked to extract the predictive features from presurgical scans.

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