Deformation-Invariant Sparse Coding for Modeling Spatial Variability of Functional Patterns in the Brain George Chen, Evelina Fedorenko, Nancy Kanwisher, Polina Golland 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop 20111
Talk Outline 1.Finding correspondences between functional regions in the brain 2.A new generative model 3.Results for language fMRI study 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop 20112
Functional Region Correspondences 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop Given stimulus, get functional activation regions Subject 1 Subject 2 Align to common anatomical space Functional variability! Goal: Find correspondences between “parcels” contiguous region in brain group-level parcels Parcel : contiguous region in brain Biology : brain compartmentalized into functional modules parcels represent these modules
Functional Variability Standard approach: just average in common anatomical space 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop Functional variability less pronounced activation in group average space Subject 1 Subject 2 space Average space Aligned space
Previous Work Thirion et al. 2007: treat parcels as discrete objects and find parcel correspondences across subjects by matching Xu et al. 2009: generative, hierarchical model representing activation regions as Gaussian mixtures Sabuncu et al. 2010: groupwise functional registration 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop 20115
Previous Work Thirion et al. 2007: treat parcels as discrete objects and find parcel correspondences across subjects by matching Xu et al. 2009: generative, hierarchical model representing activation regions as Gaussian mixtures Sabuncu et al. 2010: groupwise functional registration 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop 20116
Our Generative Model 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop To generate image for a subject: 1.Choose weights for each group-level parcel 2.Form weighted sum of group-level parcels 3.Deform pre-image and add noise Pre-image e.g. (0.2, 1) Group-level parcels 1: 2: Goal: Estimate group-level parcels and deformations
Estimating Group-level Parcels and Deformations 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop sparsitysmoothnessparcelidentifiability
Language fMRI Study 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop 20119
Left frontal lobe Left temporal lobe Estimated Group-level Parcels Correspond to known language processing regions 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop Spatial support of group-level parcels Right temporal lobe Right cerebellum Example group-level parcels
Apply estimated deformation to fMRI data for each subject and redo standard fMRI group analysis on separate data 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop Modeling functional variability increases statistical significance in each group-level parcel Group-level Parcel Index Negative log p-value Improving fMRI Group Analysis with Estimated Deformations
12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop space Subject 1 Subject 2 Average Aligned space Why is the variance so high for statistical significance values for our model?
Improving fMRI Group Analysis with Estimated Deformations 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop Average space Why is the variance so high for statistical significance values for our model? Group-level parcel support Variation using anatomical alignment only Variation using our model
Apply estimated deformation to fMRI data for each subject and redo standard fMRI group analysis 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop Modeling functional variability increases statistical significance in each group-level parcel Group-level Parcel Index Negative log p-value Improving fMRI Group Analysis with Estimated Deformations
Contributions 12/16/2011NIPS MLINI Workshop