A Bayesian hierarchical spatial point process model for multi-type neuroimaging meta-analysis

DOI10.1214/14-AOAS757zbMATH Open1304.62133arXiv1412.1670OpenAlexW3106017305WikidataQ41911263 ScholiaQ41911263MaRDI QIDQ484056FDOQ484056

Authors: Tor D. Wager, Timothy D. Johnson, Jian Kang, Thomas E. Nichols 

Publication date: 17 December 2014

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Neuroimaging meta-analysis is an important tool for finding consistent effects over studies that each usually have 20 or fewer subjects. Interest in meta-analysis in brain mapping is also driven by a recent focus on so-called "reverse inference": where as traditional "forward inference" identifies the regions of the brain involved in a task, a reverse inference identifies the cognitive processes that a task engages. Such reverse inferences, however, require a set of meta-analysis, one for each possible cognitive domain. However, existing methods for neuroimaging meta-analysis have significant limitations. Commonly used methods for neuroimaging meta-analysis are not model based, do not provide interpretable parameter estimates, and only produce null hypothesis inferences; further, they are generally designed for a single group of studies and cannot produce reverse inferences. In this work we address these limitations by adopting a nonparametric Bayesian approach for meta-analysis data from multiple classes or types of studies. In particular, foci from each type of study are modeled as a cluster process driven by a random intensity function that is modeled as a kernel convolution of a gamma random field. The type-specific gamma random fields are linked and modeled as a realization of a common gamma random field, shared by all types, that induces correlation between study types and mimics the behavior of a univariate mixed effects model. We illustrate our model on simulation studies and a meta-analysis of five emotions from 219 studies and check model fit by a posterior predictive assessment. In addition, we implement reverse inference by using the model to predict study type from a newly presented study. We evaluate this predictive performance via leave-one-out cross-validation that is efficiently implemented using importance sampling techniques.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1670

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zbMATH Keywords

classificationhierarchical modelBayesian spatial point processesneurorimage meta-analysisrandom intensity measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

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