A completely data-driven method for detecting neuronal activation in fMRI

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Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the most widely used methods to study neuronal activity in human brain in vivo. A data-driven method is proposed to detect both the temporal and spatial information in fMRI data acquired during the representation of stimuli, which may also be applied when the expected response cannot be estimated a priori. The method is built on the existing temporal clustering analysis technique with additional features of searching for the connected components in the temporal and spatial domains in the whole brain. Moreover, no pre-defined assumptions about the stimuli are required in comparison to the previous methods. The output contains the information on how long the activation sustains and where the corresponding voxels are. For validation, the method has been applied to four sets of data from an experiment involving visual stimuli. Our method is able to detect the response to the stimuli
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 Ieee International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vols 1-12
Place of PublicationNEW YORK
PublisherIEEE
Pages445 - 448
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)1520-6149
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Las Vegas, NV
Duration: 1 Jan 2008 → …

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Conference

Conference33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period1/01/2008 → …

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