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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020

MVPANI: A Toolkit With Friendly Graphical User Interface for Multivariate Pattern Analysis of Neuroimaging Data.

Yanmin Peng, Xi Zhang, Yifan Li, Qian Su, Sijia Wang, Feng Liu, Chunshui Yu, Meng Liang

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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Yanmin PengSchool of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Xi ZhangSchool of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Yifan LiSchool of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Qian SuSchool of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Sijia WangSchool of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Feng LiuTianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Chunshui YuSchool of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Meng LiangSchool of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.

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Abstract

With the rapid development of machine learning techniques, multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) is becoming increasingly popular in the field of neuroimaging data analysis. Several software packages have been developed to facilitate its application in neuroimaging studies. As most of these software packages are based on command lines, researchers are required to learn how to program, which has greatly limited the use of MVPA for researchers without programming skills. Moreover, lacking a graphical user interface (GUI) also hinders the standardization of the application of MVPA in neuroimaging studies and, consequently, the replication of previous studies or comparisons of results between different studies. Therefore, we developed a GUI-based toolkit for MVPA of neuroimaging data: MVPANI (MVPA for Neuroimaging). Compared with other existing software packages, MVPANI has several advantages. First, MVPANI has a GUI and is, thus, more friendly for non-programmers. Second, MVPANI offers a variety of machine learning algorithms with the flexibility of parameter modification so that researchers can test different algorithms and tune parameters to identify the most suitable algorithms and parameters for their own data. Third, MVPANI also offers the function of data fusion at two levels (feature level or decision level) to utilize complementary information contained in different measures obtained from multimodal neuroimaging techniques. In this paper, we introduce this toolkit and provide four examples to demonstrate its usage, including (1) classification between patients and controls, (2) identification of brain areas containing discriminating information, (3) prediction of clinical scores, and (4) multimodal data fusion.

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classificationdata fusiongraphical user interfacemachine learningmultivariate pattern analysismultivoxel pattern analysisneuroimagingregression

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PMCPMC7364177

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