Title
Enhancing reproducibility of fMRI statistical maps using generalized canonical correlation analysis in NPAIRS framework.
Abstract
Common fMRI data processing techniques usually minimize a temporal cost function or fit a temporal model to extract an activity map. Here, we focus on extracting a highly, spatially reproducible statistical parametric map (SPM) from fMRI data using a cost function that does not depend on a model of the subjects' temporal response. Based on a generalized version of canonical correlation analysis (gCCA), we propose a method to extract a highly reproducible map by maximizing the sum of pair-wise correlations between some maps. In a group analysis, each map is calculated from a linear combination of fMRI scans of a subset of subjects under study. The proposed method is applied to BOLD fMRI datasets without any spatial smoothing from 10 subjects performing a simple reaction time (RT) task. Using the NPAIRS split-half resampling framework with a reproducibility measure based on SPM correlations, we compare the proposed approach with canonical variate analysis (CVA) and a simple general linear model (GLM). gCCA provides statistical parametric maps with higher reproducibility than CVA and GLM with correlation reproducibilities across independent split-half SPMs of 0.78, 0.46, and 0.41, respectively. Our results show that gCCA is an efficient approach for extracting the default mode network, assessing brain connectivity, and processing event-related and resting-state datasets in which the temporal BOLD signal varies from subject to subject.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.137
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Canonical variant analysis (CVA),Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),Generalized canonical correlation analysis (gCCA),Multivariate analysis techniques,Reproducibility
Data mining,Linear combination,General linear model,Canonical correlation,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Artificial intelligence,Resampling,Generalized canonical correlation,Default mode network,Pattern recognition,Parametric statistics,Smoothing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
60
4
1053-8119
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.50
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Babak Afshin-Pour1131.34
Gholam-ali Hossein-zadeh2347.96
Stephen C. Strother339956.31
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh461384.11