Abstract
In this manuscript, we use a two-stage decomposition for the analysis of func- tional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In the first stage, spatial independent component analysis is applied to the group fMRI data to obtain common brain networks (spatial maps) and subject-specific mixing matrices (time courses). In the second stage, functional principal component analysis is utilized to decompose the mixing matrices into population- level eigenvectors and subject-specific loadings. Inference is performed using permutation-based exact conditional logistic regression for matched pairs data. Simulation studies suggest the ability of the decomposition methods to recover population brain networks and the major direction of variation in the mixing matrices. The method is applied to a novel fMRI study of Alzheimer's disease risk under a verbal paired associates task. We found empirical evidence of alternative ICA-based metrics of connectivity in clinically asymptomatic at risk subjects when compared to controls.
Disciplines
Statistical Models
Suggested Citation
Li, Shanshan; Caffo, Brian S.; Joel, Suresh; Mostofsky, Stewart; Pekar, James; and Spear Bassett, Susan, "POPULATION FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS OF GROUP ICA-BASED CONNECTIVITY MEASURES FROM fMRI" (February 2011). Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers. Working Paper 224.
https://biostats.bepress.com/jhubiostat/paper224