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Functional connectivity; spatio-temporal dependency; EM algorithm; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); generalized fused lasso; group lasso; graphical lasso; network estimation; Gaussian graphical model; high-dimensional

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Statistical Approaches For Estimation And Comparison Of Brain Functional Connectivity, Jifang Zhao Jan 2021

Statistical Approaches For Estimation And Comparison Of Brain Functional Connectivity, Jifang Zhao

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Drug addiction can lead to many health-related problems and social concerns. Functional connectivity obtained from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data promotes a variety of fundamental understandings in such association. Due to its complex correlation structure and large dimensionality, the modeling and analysis of the functional connectivity from neuroimage are challenging. By proposing a spatio-temporal model for multi-subject neuroimage data, we incorporate voxel-level spatio-temporal dependencies of whole-brain measurements to improve the accuracy of statistical inference. To tackle large-scale spatio-temporal neuroimage data, we develop a computationally efficient algorithm to estimate the parameters. Our method is used to identify functional connectivity and …