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Gaurav Garg¹, Girijesh Prasad, Damien Coyle

¹MS125, Intelligent Systems Research Centre, School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Londonderry BT48 7JL, UK. garg-g@email.ulster.ac.uk

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Area of Science:

Neuroimaging
Neuroscience
Medical Imaging

Background:

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is valuable for studying brain networks like the default mode network (DMN) due to reduced motion artifacts.
Low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in resting-state fMRI data challenges the accurate analysis of low-amplitude fluctuations.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate a novel noise suppression method for resting-state fMRI data analysis.
To enhance the accuracy of Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations (ALFF) analysis in the presence of noise.

Main Methods:

A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) was employed for noise suppression during the pre-processing of resting-state fMRI data.
The optimal number of Gaussian distributions was determined using the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC).
The proposed GMM-ALFF method was tested on both simulated and real fMRI data from Alzheimer's disease patients.

Main Results:

The GMM-ALFF method demonstrated significant noise reduction capabilities.
Improvements of up to 40% were observed in artificial datasets.
A statistically significant improvement of at least 3% (p<0.05) was achieved in real resting-state fMRI datasets.

Conclusions:

The proposed GMM-ALFF method effectively suppresses noise in resting-state fMRI data.
This noise reduction enhances the reliability of ALFF analysis, particularly for pathological conditions.
The GMM approach offers a promising pre-processing strategy for improving neuroimaging studies of brain function.