Characterization of task-free/task-performance brain states

Xin Zhang, Lei Guo, Xiang Li, Dajiang Zhu, Kaiming Li, Zhenqiang Sun, Changfeng Jin, Xintao Hu, Junwei Han, Qun Zhao, Lingjiang Li, Tianming Liu

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Abstract

Both resting state fMRI (R-fMRI) and task-based fMRI (T-fMRI) have been widely used to study the functional activities of the human brain during task-free and task-performance periods, respectively. However, due to the difficulty in strictly controlling the participating subject’s mental status and their cognitive behaviors during fMRI scans, it has been very challenging to tell whether or not an R-fMRI/T-fMRI scan truly reflects the participant’s functional brain states in task-free/task-performance. This paper presents a novel approach to characterizing the brain’s functional status into task-free or task-performance states. The basic idea here is that the brain’s functional state is represented by a whole-brain quasi-stable connectivity pattern (WQCP), and an effective sparse coding procedure was then applied to learn the atomic connectivity patterns (ACP) of both task-free and task-performance states based on training R-fMRI and T-fMRI data. Our experimental results demonstrated that the learned ACPs for R-fMRI and T-fMRI datasets are substantially different, as expected. However, a certain portion of ACPs from R-fMRI and TfMRI datasets are overlapping, suggesting that those subjects with overlapping ACPs were not in the expected task-free/task-performance states during RfMRI/ T-fMRI scans.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI2012 - 15th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsBjoern H. Menze, Zhuowen Tu, Bjoern H. Menze, Albert Montillo, Antonio Criminisi, Nicholas Ayache, Hervé Delingette, Le Lu, Georg Langs, Georg Langs, Polina Golland, Kensaku Mori
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages237-245
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783642334177
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012 - Nice, France
Duration: 5 Oct 20125 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7511 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period5/10/125/10/12

Keywords

  • Connectivity
  • Cortical landmarks
  • DTI
  • FMRI

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