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IMPROVING FMRI CLASSIFICATION THROUGH NETWORK DECONVOLUTION

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Date Issued:
2015
Abstract/Description:
The structure of regional correlation graphs built from fMRI-derived data is frequently used in algorithms to automatically classify brain data. Transformation on the data is performed during pre-processing to remove irrelevant or inaccurate information to ensure that an accurate representation of the subject's resting-state connectivity is attained. Our research suggests and confirms that such pre-processed data still exhibits inherent transitivity, which is expected to obscure the true relationships between regions. This obfuscation prevents known solutions from developing an accurate understanding of a subject's functional connectivity. By removing correlative transitivity, connectivity between regions is made more specific and automated classification is expected to improve. The task of utilizing fMRI to automatically diagnose Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder was posed by the ADHD-200 Consortium in a competition to draw in researchers and new ideas from outside of the neuroimaging discipline. Researchers have since worked with the competition dataset to produce ever-increasing detection rates. Our approach was empirically tested with a known solution to this problem to compare processing of treated and untreated data, and the detection rates were shown to improve in all cases with a weighted average increase of 5.88%.
Title: IMPROVING FMRI CLASSIFICATION THROUGH NETWORK DECONVOLUTION.
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Name(s): Martinek, Jacob, Author
Zhang, Shaojie, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2015
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: The structure of regional correlation graphs built from fMRI-derived data is frequently used in algorithms to automatically classify brain data. Transformation on the data is performed during pre-processing to remove irrelevant or inaccurate information to ensure that an accurate representation of the subject's resting-state connectivity is attained. Our research suggests and confirms that such pre-processed data still exhibits inherent transitivity, which is expected to obscure the true relationships between regions. This obfuscation prevents known solutions from developing an accurate understanding of a subject's functional connectivity. By removing correlative transitivity, connectivity between regions is made more specific and automated classification is expected to improve. The task of utilizing fMRI to automatically diagnose Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder was posed by the ADHD-200 Consortium in a competition to draw in researchers and new ideas from outside of the neuroimaging discipline. Researchers have since worked with the competition dataset to produce ever-increasing detection rates. Our approach was empirically tested with a known solution to this problem to compare processing of treated and untreated data, and the detection rates were shown to improve in all cases with a weighted average increase of 5.88%.
Identifier: CFH0004895 (IID), ucf:45410 (fedora)
Note(s): 2015-12-01
B.S.
Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Bachelors
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Subject(s): attention deficit hyperactive disorder
correlation
functional magnetic resonance imaging
network deconvolution
support vector machine
transitivity
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004895
Restrictions on Access: public 2015-12-01
Host Institution: UCF

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