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We are developing methods for analyzing diffusion tensor data along fiber tracts. The goal is to be able to make statistical group comparisons with fiber tracts as a common reference frame for comparison.
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Our objective is to study functional connectivity of schizophrenia patients versus normal with unsupervised data-driven analysis methods, such as ICA and clustering.
  
  
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Our approach for analyzing diffusion tensors is summarized in the IPMI 2007 reference below. The main challenge to this approach is <foo>.
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Our approach for investigating functional connectivity of schizophrenia patients is to apply probabilistic independent component analysis (PICA) and clustering based on Gaussian mixture model (GMM).
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Our plan for the project week is to first run such data-driven analysis methods on the data and then perform group analysis. We will also compare the results between PICA and GMM and investigate the factors that contribute to the differences.  
  
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Software for the fiber tracking and statistical analysis along the tracts has been implemented. The statistical methods for diffusion tensors are implemented as ITK code as part of the [[NA-MIC/Projects/Diffusion_Image_Analysis/DTI_Software_and_Algorithm_Infrastructure|DTI Software Infrastructure]] project. The methods have been validated on a repeated scan of a healthy individual. This work has been published as a conference paper (MICCAI 2005) and a journal version (MEDIA 2006). Our recent IPMI 2007 paper includes a nonparametric regression method for analyzing data along a fiber tract.
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We have applied standard fMRI preprocessing steps on the data and regressed out the effects of white matter and ventricles. We have also customized PICA and GMM tools for our analysis purpose and obtained some preliminary results.
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During the project week, we completed applying PICA to both individual subjects and group analysis. We plan to discuss the results with the clinicians soon.
  
 
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===References===
 
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* Fletcher, P.T., Tao, R., Jeong, W.-K., Whitaker, R.T., "A Volumetric Approach to Quantifying Region-to-Region White Matter Connectivity in Diffusion Tensor MRI," to appear Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2007.
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* C. Beckmann and S. Smith. "Probabilistic independent component analysis for functional magnetic resonance imaging." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 23(2):137–152, 2004.
* C. Goodlett, I. Corouge, M. Jomier, and G. Gerig, A Quantitative DTI Fiber Tract Analysis Suite, The Insight Journal, vol. ISC/NAMIC/ MICCAI Workshop on Open-Source Software, 2005, Online publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1926/39 .
 

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Home < 2008 Summer Project Week:fMRIconnectivity



Key Investigators

  • MIT: Bryce Kim, Polina Golland
  • BWH: Jungsu Oh, Marek Kubicki


Objective

Our objective is to study functional connectivity of schizophrenia patients versus normal with unsupervised data-driven analysis methods, such as ICA and clustering.


Approach, Plan

Our approach for investigating functional connectivity of schizophrenia patients is to apply probabilistic independent component analysis (PICA) and clustering based on Gaussian mixture model (GMM).

Our plan for the project week is to first run such data-driven analysis methods on the data and then perform group analysis. We will also compare the results between PICA and GMM and investigate the factors that contribute to the differences.

Progress

We have applied standard fMRI preprocessing steps on the data and regressed out the effects of white matter and ventricles. We have also customized PICA and GMM tools for our analysis purpose and obtained some preliminary results.

During the project week, we completed applying PICA to both individual subjects and group analysis. We plan to discuss the results with the clinicians soon.


References

  • C. Beckmann and S. Smith. "Probabilistic independent component analysis for functional magnetic resonance imaging." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 23(2):137–152, 2004.