Title
Multiple constrained minimum variance beamformer (MCMV) performance in connectivity analyses
Abstract
Functional brain connectivity is increasingly being seen as critical for cognition, perception and motor control. Magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography are modalities that offer noninvasive mapping of electrophysiological interactions among brain regions, yet suffer from signal leakage and signal cancellation when estimating brain activity. This leads to biased connectivity values which complicate interpretation. In this study, we test the hypothesis that a Multiple Constrained Minimum Variance beamformer (MCMV) outperforms the more traditional Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance beamformer (LCMV) for estimation of electrophysiological connectivity. To this end, MCMV and LCMV performance is compared in task related analyses with both simulated data and human MEG recordings of visual steady state signals, and in resting state analyses with simulated data and human MEG data of 89 subjects. In task related scenarios connectivity was estimated using coherence and phase locking values, whereas envelope correlations were used for the resting state data. We also introduce a novel Augmented Pairwise MCMV (APW-MCMV) approach for signal leakage suppression in resting state analyses and assess its performance against LCMV and more conventional MCMV approaches. We demonstrate that with MCMV effects of signal mixing and coherent source cancellation are greatly reduced in both task related and resting state conditions, while in contrast to other approaches 0- and short time lag interactions are preserved. In addition, we demonstrate that in resting state analyses, APW-MCMV strongly reduces spurious connections while better controlling for false negatives compared to more conservative measures such as symmetrical orthogonalization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116386
NeuroImage
Field
DocType
Volume
Minimum-variance unbiased estimator,Biology,Resting state fMRI,Algorithm,Motor control,Coherence (physics),Genetics,Orthogonalization,Spurious relationship,Electroencephalography,Magnetoencephalography
Journal
208
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1053-8119
0
0.34
References 
Authors
16
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adonay S. Nunes100.68
Alexander Moiseev2222.71
Nataliia Kozhemiako300.34
Teresa Cheung410.70
Urs Ribary541.45
Sam M. Doesburg600.68