Functional brain mapping with locally smoothed regression

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Abstract

High-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (hi-res fMRI) methodology offers an opportunity for neuroscientists to gain insight about brain activities at a finer scale, and is thus becoming increasingly common. Traditional voxel-wise general linear model (GLM) is not suitable for hi-res functional brain mapping because local averaging may lose valuable fine-grained information boasted by hi-res fMRI. The searchlight approach may be more suited for this situation, but it can be improved to integrate multi-voxel information more completely and effectively. We propose a locally smoothed regression (LSR) to find the spatial organizations of neural activities, especially for hi-res data. LSR is a flexible model whereby the traditional voxel-wise regression can be seen as a special case of LSR. Further, LSR can be integrated into Mahalanobis-distance-based searchlight framework. This new approach promises to provide improved and reliable activation mapping as illustrated here by applying it to analyze a real set of data using hi-res fMRI imaging.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISBI 2013 - 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Nano to Macro
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1504-1507
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781467364546
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event10th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2013 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 7 Apr 201311 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
ISSN (Print)1945-7928
ISSN (Electronic)1945-8452

Conference

Conference10th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period7/04/1311/04/13

Keywords

  • Brain activation localization
  • High-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • Multivariate pattern analysis
  • Searchlight approach

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