Joint generative model for fMRI/DWI and its application to population studies

  • Authors:
  • Archana Venkataraman;Yogesh Rathi;Marek Kubicki;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Polina Golland

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;Laboratory for Mathematics Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • MICCAI'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a novel probabilistic framework to merge information from DWI tractography and resting-state fMRI correlations. In particular, we model the interaction of latent anatomical and functional connectivity templates between brain regions and present an intuitive extension to population studies. We employ a mean-field approximation to fit the new model to the data. The resulting algorithm identifies differences in latent connectivity between the groups. We demonstrate our method on a study of normal controls and schizophrenia patients.