Title
Sparse representation of group-wise FMRI signals.
Abstract
The human brain function involves complex processes with population codes of neuronal activities. Neuroscience research has demonstrated that when representing neuronal activities, sparsity is an important characterizing property. Inspired by this finding, significant amount of efforts from the scientific communities have been recently devoted to sparse representations of signals and patterns, and promising achievements have been made. However, sparse representation of fMRI signals, particularly at the population level of a group of different brains, has been rarely explored yet. In this paper, we present a novel group-wise sparse representation of task-based fMRI signals from multiple subjects via dictionary learning methods. Specifically, we extract and pool task-based fMRI signals for a set of cortical landmarks, each of which possesses intrinsic anatomical correspondence, from a group of subjects. Then an effective online dictionary learning algorithm is employed to learn an over-complete dictionary from the pooled population of fMRI signals based on optimally determined dictionary size. Our experiments have identified meaningful Atoms of Interests (AOI) in the learned dictionary, which correspond to consistent and meaningful functional responses of the brain to external stimulus. Our work demonstrated that sparse representation of group-wise fMRI signals is naturally suitable and effective in recovering population codes of neuronal signals conveyed in fMRI data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-40760-4_76
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
DTI,Task-based fMRI,Sparse coding
Population,Dictionary learning,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Neural coding,Sparse approximation,Artificial intelligence,Stimulus (physiology)
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8151
Pt 3
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.55
5
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jinglei Lv120526.70
Xiang Li2112.85
Dajiang Zhu332036.72
Xi Jiang431137.88
Xin Zhang5192.37
Xintao Hu611813.53
Tuo Zhang723332.92
Lei Guo81661142.63
Tianming Liu91033112.95