Multivoxel pattern analysis for fMRI data: a review

DOI10.1155/2012/961257MaRDI QIDQ1929650zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Abdelhak Mahmoudi, Sylvain Takerkart, F. Regragui, Driss Boussaoud, Andrea Brovelli

Publication date 9 January 2013

Published in Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/961257

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Neural biology (92C20) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55)

Review text

Summary: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) exploits blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) contrasts to map neural activity associated with a variety of brain functions including sensory processing, motor control, and cognitive and emotional functions. The general linear model (GLM) approach is used to reveal task-related brain areas by searching for linear correlations between the fMRI time course and a reference model. One of the limitations of the GLM approach is the assumption that the covariance across neighbouring voxels is not informative about the cognitive function under examination. Multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) represents a promising technique that is currently exploited to investigate the information contained in distributed patterns of neural activity to infer the functional role of brain areas and networks. MVPA is considered as a supervised classification problem where a classifier attempts to capture the relationships between spatial pattern of fMRI activity and experimental conditions. We review MVPA and describe the mathematical basis of the classification algorithms used for decoding fMRI signals, such as support vector machines (SVMs). In addition, we describe the workflow of processing steps required for MVPA such as feature selection, dimensionality reduction, cross-validation, and classifier performance estimation based on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.

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• Brain decoding: opportunities and challenges for pattern recognition

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Uses Software

• ElemStatLearn
• LIBSVM
• PyMVPA

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