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Lei Xu¹, Timothy D Johnson, Thomas E Nichols

¹Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA. lei.xu@vanderbilt.edu

|February 13, 2009

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Area of Science:

Neuroimaging
Statistical Modeling
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Univariate voxel-wise modeling is common for single and multi-subject fMRI.
Spatial modeling has been explored for single-subject fMRI and recently for multi-subject data.
Existing methods do not explicitly address inter-subject variability in activation locations.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a spatial model for multi-subject fMRI data that explicitly accounts for inter-subject variability in activation locations.
To enable inference at population, individual, and voxel levels within a Bayesian hierarchical framework.
To determine the proportion of subjects exhibiting significant activity in specific brain regions.

Main Methods:

Developed a Bayesian hierarchical spatial model for multi-subject fMRI data.
Modeled inter-subject variability in activation locations using activation centers and Gaussian mixtures.
Employed reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo to estimate the posterior distribution of the unknown number of mixture components.

Main Results:

Demonstrated significantly improved precision of activation localization compared to standard mass-univariate methods.
Successfully addressed the question of subject-specific activation proportions in given regions.
The model showed superior performance in an fMRI study of proactive interference.

Conclusions:

The proposed spatial model offers enhanced precision for localizing brain activity in multi-subject fMRI studies.
This Bayesian hierarchical approach provides robust inference across multiple levels of analysis.
The methodology is adaptable for other neuroimaging data types beyond fMRI.