A Functional Connectivity Inspired Approach to Non-Local fMRI Analysis

摘要

We propose non-local analysis of functional magnetic resonanceimaging (fMRI) data in order to detect more brain activity.Our non-local approach combines the ideas of regularfMRI analysis with those of functional connectivity analysis,and was inspired by the non-local means algorithm thatcommonly is used for image denoising. We extend canonicalcorrelation analysis (CCA) based fMRI analysis to handlemore than one activity area, such that information fromdifferent parts of the brain can be combined. Our non-localapproach is compared to fMRI analysis by the general linearmodel (GLM) and local CCA, by using simulated as well asreal data.