Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a technique for mea- suring brain activity. The outcomes of fMRI measurements are complex data that can be interpreted as multivariate time series, recorded at different brain locations, usu- ally across subjects. The literature has been mainly concerned with task-based fMRI analysis, which focuses on the response to controlled exogenous stimuli. Neverthe- less, resting state fMRI (RfMRI) analysis, dealing with spontaneous brain activity, is considered the key to understand the neuronal organisation of the brain. The aim of this paper is to identify spontaneous neural activations and to estimate the brain response function in RfMRI data, called Hemodynamic Response Function (HRF). To this purpose, we apply an existing method based on a normality assumption for the data generating process and we consider a novel, more general method, based on robust filtering. Finally, we compare the neural activations and HRF estimates for two specific patients.

Robust Methods for Detecting Spontaneous Activations in fMRI Data

Luati, Alessandra
2018

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a technique for mea- suring brain activity. The outcomes of fMRI measurements are complex data that can be interpreted as multivariate time series, recorded at different brain locations, usu- ally across subjects. The literature has been mainly concerned with task-based fMRI analysis, which focuses on the response to controlled exogenous stimuli. Neverthe- less, resting state fMRI (RfMRI) analysis, dealing with spontaneous brain activity, is considered the key to understand the neuronal organisation of the brain. The aim of this paper is to identify spontaneous neural activations and to estimate the brain response function in RfMRI data, called Hemodynamic Response Function (HRF). To this purpose, we apply an existing method based on a normality assumption for the data generating process and we consider a novel, more general method, based on robust filtering. Finally, we compare the neural activations and HRF estimates for two specific patients.
2018
Studies in Neural Data Science
91
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Gasperoni, Francesca; Luati, Alessandra
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