Title
Sparsity-Based Blind Deconvolution Of Neural Activation Signal In Fmri
Abstract
The estimation of the hemodynamic response function (HRF) in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is critical to deconvolve a time-resolved neural activity and get insights on the underlying cognitive processes. Existing methods propose to estimate the HRF using the experimental paradigm (EP) in task fMRI as a surrogate of neural activity. These approaches induce a bias as they do not account for latencies in the cognitive responses compared to EP and cannot be applied to resting-state data as no EP is available. In this work, we formulate the joint estimation of the HRF and neural activation signal as a semi blind deconvolution problem. Its solution can be approximated using an efficient alternate minimization algorithm. The proposed approach is applied to task fMRI data for validation purpose and compared to a state-of-the-art HRF estimation technique. Numerical experiments suggest that our approach is competitive with others while not requiring EP information.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)
BOLD signal, Hemodynamic response function (HRF), non-convex optimization
Field
DocType
ISSN
Non convex optimization,Pattern recognition,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Blind deconvolution,Computer science,Deconvolution,Neural activity,Artificial intelligence,Cognition,Minimization algorithm
Conference
1520-6149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hamza Cherkaoui101.35
Thomas Moreau277.56
Abderrahim Halimi329220.72
Philippe Ciuciu445250.82