http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7685 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&amp;cmd=Link&amp;LinkName=pubmed_pubmed&amp;from_uid=28774436">Related Articles</a></td></tr></table> <p><b>SCGICAR: Spatial concatenation based group ICA with reference for fMRI data analysis.</b></p> <p>Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2017 Sep;148:137-151</p> <p>Authors: Shi Y, Zeng W, Wang N</p> <p>Abstract<br/> BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: With the rapid development of big data, the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data analysis of multi-subject is becoming more and more important. As a kind of blind source separation technique, group independent component analysis (GICA) has been widely applied for the multi-subject fMRI data analysis. However, spatial concatenated GICA is rarely used compared with temporal concatenated GICA due to its disadvantages.<br/> METHODS: In this paper, in order to overcome these issues and to consider that the ability of GICA for fMRI data analysis can be improved by adding a priori information, we propose a novel spatial concatenation based GICA with reference (SCGICAR) method to take advantage of the priori information extracted from the group subjects, and then the multi-objective optimization strategy is used to implement this method. Finally, the post-processing means of principal component analysis and anti-reconstruction are used to obtain group spatial component and individual temporal component in the group, respectively.<br/> RESULTS: The experimental results show that the proposed SCGICAR method has a better performance on both single-subject and multi-subject fMRI data analysis compared with classical methods. It not only can detect more accurate spatial and temporal component for each subject of the group, but also can obtain a better group component on both temporal and spatial domains.<br/> CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate that the proposed SCGICAR method has its own advantages in comparison with classical methods, and it can better reflect the commonness of subjects in the group.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 28774436 [PubMed - in process]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Mon, 04 May 2026 7:01:43 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator