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PCA leverage: outlier detection for high-dimensional functional magnetic resonance imaging data.

Amanda F Mejia¹, Mary Beth Nebel², Ani Eloyan³

¹Department of Statistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

Biostatistics (Oxford, England)

|March 24, 2017

Summary

This study introduces new methods, PCA leverage and PCA robust distance, for detecting outliers in high-dimensional functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. These techniques improve the accuracy and reliability of fMRI data analysis, particularly for resting-state networks.

Keywords:

High-dimensional statistics Image analysis Leverage Outlier detection Principal component analysis Robust statistics fMRI

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Statistics
Neuroimaging
Data Science

Background:

High-dimensional (HD) data analysis is crucial in modern statistics.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) generates HD data, requiring robust outlier detection.
Automated quality control for fMRI data is increasingly necessary due to growing dataset availability.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate novel methods for outlier detection in fMRI data.
To address the need for automated quality control in large-scale fMRI datasets.
To enhance the reliability of statistical analyses on fMRI data.

Main Methods:

Proposed Principal Component Analysis (PCA) leverage to identify outlying time points in fMRI.
Introduced PCA robust distance as an alternative, less sensitive outlier measure.
Validated methods through simulation studies and a reliability study on resting-state fMRI data.

Main Results:

PCA leverage and PCA robust distance accurately identify outlying time points in fMRI.
The proposed methods demonstrated high accuracy in simulation studies.
Removing outliers improved the reliability of subject-level resting-state network estimation.

Conclusions:

PCA leverage and PCA robust distance are effective tools for outlier detection in fMRI data.
These methods contribute to improved quality control and data reliability in neuroimaging.
The findings support the use of these techniques for analyzing large fMRI datasets, such as those from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange.