Fusing functional connectivity with network nodal information for sparse network pattern learning of functional brain networks

Sparse learning methods have been powerful tools for learning compact representations of functional brain networks consisting of a set of brain network nodes and a connectivity matrix measuring functional coherence between the nodes. However, these tools typically focus on the functional connectivity measures alone, ignoring the brain network nodal information that is complementary to the functional connectivity measures for comprehensively characterizing the functional brain networks. In order to provide a comprehensive delineation of the functional brain networks, we develop a new data fusion method for heterogeneous data, aiming at learning sparse network patterns to characterize both the functional connectivity measures and their complementary network nodal information within a unified framework. Experimental results have demonstrated that our method outperforms the best alternative method under comparison in terms of accuracy on simulated data as well as both reproducibility and prediction performance of brain age on real resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data.     

MRCCA: A novel CCA based method and its application in feature extraction and fusion for matrix data

Multiset features extracted from the same pattern usually represent different characteristics of data, meanwhile, matrices or 2-order tensors are common forms of data in real applications. Hence, how to extract multiset features from matrix data is an important research topic for pattern recognition. In this paper, by analyzing the relationship between CCA and 2D-CCA, a novel feature extraction method called multiple rank canonical correlation analysis (MRCCA) is proposed, which is an extension of 2D-CCA. Different from CCA and 2D-CCA, in MRCCA k pairs left transforms and k pairs right transforms are sought to maximize correlation. Besides, the multiset version of MRCCA termed as multiple rank multiset canonical correlation analysis (MRMCCA) is also developed. Experimental results on five real-world data sets demonstrate the viability of the formulation, they also show that the recognition rate of our method is higher than other methods and the computing time is competitive.     

A novel method for spatio-temporal pattern analysis of brain fMRI data

1 Introduction Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive brain imaging technique which has been utilized in brain function researches since the early 1990s[1]. However, it is often difficult to do analysis in fMRI data because of the low signal to noise ratio (SNR) (about 2%—4% with 1.5T magnetic field strength) and the delay within the true neural activity and the stimuli-induced signal dynamic responses. The prevalent methods applied to fMRI data could be divided i…