TY - GEN
T1 - Detecting volumetric changes in fMRI connectivity networks in schizophrenia patients
AU - Arbabshirani, Mohammad R.
AU - Pattichis, Marios S.
AU - Ulloa, Alvaro
AU - Calhoun, Vince D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/11/2
Y1 - 2014/11/2
N2 - There is a growing interest in identifying neuroimaging-based biomarkers for schizophrenia. Previous studies have shown both functional and structural brain abnormalities in schizophrenia patients. One main category of these findings consists of volumetric abnormalities in brain structure in different cortical and subcortical structures in patients' brain. However there has been little work investigating changes in the brain's functional volumes. Nor has there been work studying differences in brain networks as opposed to single regions. In this study, we investigated the volumes of functional networks as potential biomarkers. Independent component analysis was used to decompose fMRI images into maximally independent spatial maps and corresponding time-courses. Volume of functional networks was computed from subject-specific back reconstructed spatial maps. The results show that different nodes of the default-mode network exhibit volumetric abnormalities in schizophrenia patients. Interestingly these networks are larger in patients compared to controls.
AB - There is a growing interest in identifying neuroimaging-based biomarkers for schizophrenia. Previous studies have shown both functional and structural brain abnormalities in schizophrenia patients. One main category of these findings consists of volumetric abnormalities in brain structure in different cortical and subcortical structures in patients' brain. However there has been little work investigating changes in the brain's functional volumes. Nor has there been work studying differences in brain networks as opposed to single regions. In this study, we investigated the volumes of functional networks as potential biomarkers. Independent component analysis was used to decompose fMRI images into maximally independent spatial maps and corresponding time-courses. Volume of functional networks was computed from subject-specific back reconstructed spatial maps. The results show that different nodes of the default-mode network exhibit volumetric abnormalities in schizophrenia patients. Interestingly these networks are larger in patients compared to controls.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943693
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943693
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 25570061
AN - SCOPUS:84929497603
T3 - 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014
SP - 726
EP - 729
BT - 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014
Y2 - 26 August 2014 through 30 August 2014
ER -