Hidden Process Models for Analyzing fMRI Data Rebecca Hutchinson Joint work with Tom Mitchell May 11, 2007 Student Seminar Series In partial fulfillment of the Speaking Requirement Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department

2 Introduction Hidden Process Models (HPMs): –A new probabilistic model for time series data. –Designed for data generated by a collection of latent processes. Potential domains: –Biological processes (e.g. synthesizing a protein) in gene expression time series. –Human processes (e.g. walking through a room) in distributed sensor network time series. –Cognitive processes (e.g. making a decision) in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging time series.

3 t t d1 … dN … Process 1: t t d1 … dN … Process P: … d1 … dN Prior knowledge: An instance of Process 1 begins in this window. An instance of Process P begins in this window. An instance of either Process 1 OR Process P begins in this window. There are a total of 6 processes in this window of data.

4 t t d1 … dN … Process 1: t t d1 … dN … Process P: … d1 … dN Process 1 timings: Process P timings: … More questions: -Can we learn the parameters of these processes from the data (even when we don’t know when they occur)? -Would a different set of processes model the data better?

5 Simple Case: Known Timing If we know which processes occur when, we can estimate their shapes with the general linear model. The timings generate a convolution matrix X: … … … p1p3 t=1 t=2 t=3 t=4 … P T p2

6 Simple Case: Known Timing T D = … … … p1p3p2 p1 p3 p2 D W(1) W(2) W(3) Y

7 Challenge: Unknown Timing T D = … … … p1p3p2 p1 p3 p2 D W(1) W(2) W(3) Y Uncertainty about the processes essentially makes the convolution matrix a random variable.

8 Our Approach Model of processes contains a probability distribution over when it occurs relative to a known event (called a timing landmark). When predicting the underlying processes, use prior knowledge about timing to limit the hypothesis space.

9 fMRI Data … Signal Amplitude Time (seconds) Hemodynamic Response Neural activity Features: 10,000 voxels, imaged every second. Training examples: trials (task repetitions).

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11 Study: Pictures and Sentences Task: Decide whether sentence describes picture correctly, indicate with button press. 13 normal subjects, 40 trials per subject. Sentences and pictures describe 3 symbols: *, +, and $, using ‘above’, ‘below’, ‘not above’, ‘not below’. Images are acquired every 0.5 seconds. Read Sentence View PictureRead Sentence View PictureFixation Press Button 4 sec.8 sec.t=0 Rest

12 Goals for fMRI To track cognitive processes over time. –Estimate process hemodynamic responses. –Estimate process timings. Allowing processes that do not directly correspond to the stimuli timing is a key contribution of HPMs! To compare hypotheses of cognitive behavior.

13 HPM Modeling Assumptions Model latent time series at process-level. Process instances share parameters based on their process types. Use prior knowledge from experiment design. Sum process responses linearly.

14 Process 1: ReadSentence Response signature W: Duration d: 11 sec. Offsets  : {0,1} P(  ): {  0,  1 } One configuration c of process instances  1,  2, …  k : (with prior  c ) Predicted mean: Input stimulus  : 11  Timing landmarks : 2 1 22 Process instance:  2 Process h: 2 Timing landmark: 2 Offset O: 1 (Start time: 2 + O) sentence picture v1 v2 Process 2: ViewPicture Response signature W: Duration d: 11 sec. Offsets  : {0,1} P(  ): {  0,  1 } v1 v2 Processes of the HPM: v1 v2 + N(0,  1 ) + N(0,  2 )

15 HPM Formalism HPM = H =, a set of processes (e.g. ReadSentence) h =, a process W = response signature d = process duration  = allowable offsets  = multinomial parameters over values in  C =, a set of configurations c =, a set of process instances  =, a process instance (e.g. ReadSentence(S1)) h = process ID = timing landmark (e.g. stimulus presentation of S1) O = offset (takes values in  h )  =, priors over C  =, standard deviation for each voxel

16 HPMs: the graphical model Offset o Process Type h Start Time s observed unobserved Timing Landmark Y t,v  1,…,  k t=[1,T], v=[1,V]  The set C of configurations constrains the joint distribution on {h(k),o(k)}  k. Configuration c

17 Encoding Experiment Design Configuration 1: Input stimulus  : Timing landmarks : 2 1 ViewPicture = 2 ReadSentence = 1 Decide = 3 Configuration 2: Configuration 3: Configuration 4: Constraints Encoded: h(  1 ) = {1,2} h(  2 ) = {1,2} h(  1 ) != h(  2 ) o(  1 ) = 0 o(  2 ) = 0 h(  3 ) = 3 o(  3 ) = {1,2} Processes:

18 Inference Over configurations Choose the most likely configuration, where: C=configuration, Y=observed data,  =input stimuli, HPM=model

19 Learning Parameters to learn: –Response signature W for each process –Timing distribution  for each process –Standard deviation  for each voxel Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate W and . –E step: estimate a probability distribution over configurations. –M step: update estimates of W (using reweighted least squares) and  (using standard MLEs) based on the E step. –After convergence, use standard MLEs for 

20 Uncertain Timings Convolution matrix models several choices for each time point … … … … … PD t=1 t=2 … t=18 … T’>T S Configurations for each row: 3,4 1,2 3,4 1,2 … …

21 Uncertain Timings … … … PD e1 e2 e3 e4 … S Y = W 3,4 1,2 3,4 1,2 … Configurations:Weights: e1 = P(C=3|Y,W old,  old,  old ) + P(C=4|Y,W old,  old,  old ) Weight each row with probabilities from E-step.

22 Learned HPM with 3 processes (S,P,D), and d=13sec. P P SS D? observed Learned models: S P D D start time chosen by program as t+18 predicted P P SS D D D?

23 ViewPicture in Visual Cortex Offset  = P(Offset)

24 ReadSentence in Visual Cortex Offset  = P(Offset)

25 Decide in Visual Cortex Offset  = P(Offset)

26 ViewPicture

27 ReadSentence

28 Decide Seconds following the second stimulus Multinomial probabilities on these time points

29 Comparing Models HPMAvg. Test Set LL PS * 10^6 PSD * 10^6 PS+S-D * 10^6 PSD+D * 10^6 PSDB * 10^6 PSDyDn * 10^6 PSDyDnDc** * 10^6 PSDyDnDcB * 10^6 5-fold cross-validation, 1 subject P = ViewPicture S = ReadSentence S+ = ReadAffirmativeSentence S- = ReadNegatedSentence D = Decide D+ = DecideAfterAffirmative D- = DecideAfterNegated Dy = DecideYes Dn = DecideNo Dc = DecideConfusion B = Button ** - This HPM can also classify Dy vs. Dn with 92.0% accuracy. GNBC gets 53.9%. (using the window from the second stimulus to the end of the trial)

30 Are we learning the right number of processes? Use synthetic data where we know ground truth. –Generate training and test sets with 2/3/4 processes. –Train HPMs with 2/3/4 processes on each. –For each test set, select the HPM with the highest data log likelihood. Number of processes in the training and test data Number of times the correct number of processes was chosen for the test set 25/5 3 44/5 Total:14/15 = 93.3%

31 Related Work fMRI –General Linear Model (Dale99) Must assume timing of process onset to estimate hemodynamic response. –Computer models of human cognition (Just99, Anderson04) Predict fMRI data rather than learning parameters of processes from the data. Machine Learning –Classification of windows of fMRI data (Cox03, Haxby01, Mitchell04) Does not typically model overlapping hemodynamic responses. –Dynamic Bayes Networks (Murphy02, Ghahramani97) HPM assumptions/constraints are difficult to encode in DBNs.

32 Future Work Incorporate spatial prior knowledge. E.g. share parameters across voxels (extending Niculescu05). Smooth hemodynamic responses (e.g. Boynton96). Improve algorithm complexities. Apply to open cognitive science problems.

33 Conclusions Take-away messages: –HPMs are a probabilistic model for time series data generated by a collection of latent processes. –In the fMRI domain, HPMs can simultaneously estimate the hemodynamic response and localize the timing of cognitive processes.

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