Anatomically informed bayesian model selection for fMRI group data analysis

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2009;12(Pt 2):450-7. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04271-3_55.

Abstract

A new approach for fMRI group data analysis is introduced to overcome the limitations of standard voxel-based testing methods, such as Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM). Using a Bayesian model selection framework, the functional network associated with a certain cognitive task is selected according to the posterior probabilities of mean region activations, given a pre-defined anatomical parcellation of the brain. This approach enables us to control a Bayesian risk that balances false positives and false negatives, unlike the SPM-like approach, which only controls false positives. On data from a mental calculation experiment, it detected the functional network known to be involved in number processing, whereas the SPM-like approach either swelled or missed the different activation regions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain Mapping / methods*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Evoked Potentials / physiology*
  • Image Enhancement / methods
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Models, Neurological
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Subtraction Technique*