Title
A multivariate approach to estimate complexity of FMRI time series
Abstract
Modern functional brain imaging methods (e.g. functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI) produce large amounts of data. To adequately describe the underlying neural processes, data analysis methods are required that are capable to map changes of high-dimensional spatio-temporal patterns over time. In this paper, we introduce Multivariate Principal Subspace Entropy (MPSE), a multivariate entropy approach that estimates spatio-temporal complexity of fMRI time series. In a temporally sliding window, MPSE measures the differential entropy of an assumed multivariate Gaussian density, with parameters that are estimated based on low-dimensional principal subspace projections of fMRI images. First, we apply MPSE to simulated time series to test how reliably it can differentiate between state phases that differ only in their intrinsic dimensionality. Secondly, we apply MPSE to real-world fMRI data of subjects who were scanned during an emotional task. Our findings suggest that MPSE might be a valid descriptor of spatio-temporal complexity of brain states.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33266-1_67
ICANN (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
data analysis method,differential entropy,multivariate approach,assumed multivariate Gaussian density,FMRI time series,brain state,fMRI image,fMRI data,high-dimensional spatio-temporal pattern,simulated time series,fMRI time series,spatio-temporal complexity
Sliding window protocol,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Pattern recognition,Data analysis,Subspace topology,Computer science,Multivariate statistics,Curse of dimensionality,Multivariate normal distribution,Artificial intelligence,Differential entropy,Machine learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Henry Schütze111.03
Thomas Martinetz21462231.48
Silke Anders3414.52
Amir Madany Mamlouk4379.52