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White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are areas of lost cells found in the white matter of the brain presenting hyperintensities. WMH segmentation is the initial step to diagnose many brain diseases.

In this work, we estimated the functional gradients of whole-brain white matter (WM) based on a new diffusion map embedding algorithm and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) ...