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Joint Analysis of fMRI Multi-subject Data to Extract Common Spatial and Temporal Sources

Pakravan, Mansooreh | 2019

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 52740 (05)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Electrical Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Shamsollahi, Mohammad Bagher
  7. Abstract:
  8. Objective: Joint analysis of multi-subject brain imaging datasets has wide applications in biomedical engineering.In these datasets, some sources belong to all subjects (joint), a subset of subjects (partially-joint), or a single subject (individual). In this thesis, this source model is referred to as joint/partiallyjoint/individual multiple datasets unidimensional (JpJI-MDU), and accordingly, a source extraction method is developed.Method: We present a deflation-based algorithm utilizing higher order cumulants to analyze the JpJI-MDU source model. The algorithm maximizes a cost function which leads to an eigenvalue problem solved with thin-SVD (singular value decomposition) factorization. Furthermore, we introduce the JpJI-feature which indicates the spatial shape of each source and the amount of its jointness with other subjects. We use this feature to determine the type of sources.Results: We evaluate our algorithm by analyzing simulated data and three real functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets. In our simulation study, we will show that the proposed algorithm determines the type of sources with the accuracy of 95% and 100% for 2-class and 3-class clustering scenarios, respectively.Furthermore, our algorithm extracts meaningful joint and partially-joint sources from the two real datasets, which are consistent with the existing neuroscience studies.Conclusion: Our results in analyzing the real datasets reveal that the analyzed datasets follow the JpJI-MDU source model. This source model improves the accuracy of source extraction methods developed for multi-subject datasets.Significance: The proposed joint blind source separation algorithm is robust and avoids parameters which are difficult to fine-tune
  9. Keywords:
  10. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) ; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) ; Joint/partially-Joint/Individual Multiple Dataset Multidimensional ; Multi-Subject Dataset

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