Multiscale Mining of fMRI Data with Hierarchical Structured Sparsity

DOI10.1137/110832380zbMATH Open1263.90059DBLPjournals/siamis/JenattonGMOEBT12arXiv1105.0363OpenAlexW2059742622WikidataQ55214465 ScholiaQ55214465MaRDI QIDQ4902145FDOQ4902145

Authors: Rodolphe Jenatton, Alexandre Gramfort, Vincent Michel, Guillaume Obozinski, Evelyn Eger, Francis Bach, Bertrand Thirion 

Publication date: 25 January 2013

Published in: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Inverse inference, or "brain reading", is a recent paradigm for analyzing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, based on pattern recognition and statistical learning. By predicting some cognitive variables related to brain activation maps, this approach aims at decoding brain activity. Inverse inference takes into account the multivariate information between voxels and is currently the only way to assess how precisely some cognitive information is encoded by the activity of neural populations within the whole brain. However, it relies on a prediction function that is plagued by the curse of dimensionality, since there are far more features than samples, i.e., more voxels than fMRI volumes. To address this problem, different methods have been proposed, such as, among others, univariate feature selection, feature agglomeration and regularization techniques. In this paper, we consider a sparse hierarchical structured regularization. Specifically, the penalization we use is constructed from a tree that is obtained by spatially-constrained agglomerative clustering. This approach encodes the spatial structure of the data at different scales into the regularization, which makes the overall prediction procedure more robust to inter-subject variability. The regularization used induces the selection of spatially coherent predictive brain regions simultaneously at different scales. We test our algorithm on real data acquired to study the mental representation of objects, and we show that the proposed algorithm not only delineates meaningful brain regions but yields as well better prediction accuracy than reference methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0363

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zbMATH Keywords

proximal methodsstructured sparsitybrain readingintersubject validationsparse hierarchical models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate analysis (62H99) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Convex programming (90C25) Ridge regression; shrinkage estimators (Lasso) (62J07) Ill-posedness and regularization problems in numerical linear algebra (65F22)

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Uses Software

• MayaVi
• Mayavi
• UNLocBoX

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