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ArticleStat2013

Ricean over Gaussian modelling in magnitude fMRI Analysis-Added Complexity with Negligible Practical Benefits.

Daniel W Adrian, Ranjan Maitra, Daniel B Rowe

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Article in Stat, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Bayesian Rician Regression for Neuroimaging.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel W AdrianResearch and Development Division, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Ranjan MaitraDepartment of Statistics and Statistical Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
Daniel B RoweDepartment of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Funding

Statistical Methods for Improved Activation Detection in fMRI StudiesR21EB016212 · NIBIB · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MAITRA, RANJAN · 2013 to 2014
$375k
NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB016212
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is well-known that Gaussian modeling of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) magnitude time-course data, which are truly Rice-distributed, constitutes an approximation, especially at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Based on this fact, previous work has argued that Rice-based activation tests show superior performance over their Gaussian-based counterparts at low SNRs and should be preferred in spite of the attendant additional computational and estimation burden. Here, we revisit these past studies and after identifying and removing their underlying limiting assumptions and approximations, provide a more comprehensive comparison. Our experimental evaluations using ROC curve methodology show that tests derived using Ricean modeling are substantially superior over the Gaussian-based activation tests only for SNRs below 0.6, i.e SNR values far lower than those encountered in fMRI as currently practiced.

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EM algorithmfMRILikelihood Ratio TestMaximum likelihood estimateNewton-RaphsonRice distributionROC curvesignal-to-noise ratio

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PMID29326483
PMCPMC5759793

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