Title
Brain Pattern Analysis Of Cortical Valued Distributions
Abstract
We introduce a new representation of cortical regions via distribution functions of their features. The distribution functions are estimated non-parametrically from the data and are observed to be non Gaussian. Cortical pattern matching is enabled by using the information-based Jensen-Shannon divergence as a measure between features. Our approach explicitly avoids pairwise registrations between brains, but instead focuses on modeling and discriminating between the cortical structural patterns. We demonstrate our approach on 120 subject brains from an Alzheimer's dataset, and present applications to clustering, classification, and dimension reduction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872597
2011 8TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: FROM NANO TO MACRO
Keywords
Field
DocType
cortical distributions, Jensen-Shannon divergence, clustering, dimension reduction
Pairwise comparison,Dimensionality reduction,Neurophysiology,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Jensen–Shannon divergence,Gaussian,Artificial intelligence,Neuroimaging,Cluster analysis,Pattern matching
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1945-7928
5
1.00
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shantanu H. Joshi184550.12
Ian Bowman2123.18
Arthur W. Toga33128261.46
John D Van Horn431628.50