Title
Automated signal drift and global fluctuation removal from 4D fMRI data based on principal component analysis as a major preprocessing step for fMRI data analysis.
Abstract
Temporal signal drift is one of the significant artifacts in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data that is not given as much attention as motion or physiological artifacts. However, signal drift if not accounted for, can introduce spurious correlation between different regions in resting state fMRI data. Hence detection and removal of signal drift is an important preprocessing step in fMRI data analysis. Here we propose an automated data driven approach that makes use of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to eliminate not only low frequency signal drift but also spontaneous high frequency global signal fluctuations. This approach is also able to identify the most dominant component for each voxel separately. For task fMRI, this can help us identify regions that respond in a time locked manner to the experiment paradigm. Such regions can be thought of as activation regions. The dominant principal components corresponding to such regions can also be used to investigate intra - region Hemodynamic Response (HR) variability within subjects and across subjects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1117/12.2512968
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
fMRI,preprocessing,PCA,signal drift,global signal fluctuations
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Preprocessor,Artificial intelligence,Principal component analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10953
0277-786X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Harshit S. Parmar111.08
Brian Nutter210120.24
L. Rodney Long353456.98
Sameer Antani41402134.03
Sunanda Mitra525445.17