Group ICA for Identifying Biomarkers in Schizophrenia: ‘Adaptive’ Networks via Spatially Constrained ICA Show More Sensitivity to Group Differences than Spatio-temporal Regression

Mustafa S. Salman, Yuhui Du, Dongdong Lin, Zening Fu, Eswar Damaraju, Jing Sui, Jiayu Chen, Qingbao Yu, Andrew Mayer, Stefan Posse, Daniel Mathalon, Judith M. Ford, Theodorus Van Erp, Vince D. Calhoun

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Abstract

Brain functional networks identified from fMRI data can provide potential biomarkers for brain disorders. Group independent component analysis (GICA) is popular for extracting brain functional networks from multiple subjects. In GICA, different strategies exist for reconstructing subject-specific networks from the group-level networks. However, it is unknown whether these strategies have different sensitivities to group differences and abilities in distinguishing patients. Among GICA, spatio-temporal regression (STR) and spatially constrained ICA approaches such as group information guided ICA (GIG-ICA) can be used to propagate components (indicating networks) to a new subject that is not included in the original subjects. In this study, based on the same a priori network maps, we reconstructed subject-specific networks using these two methods separately from resting-state fMRI data of 151 schizophrenia patients (SZs) and 163 healthy controls (HCs). We investigated group differences in the estimated functional networks and the functional network connectivity (FNC) obtained by each method. The networks were also used as features in a cross-validated support vector machine (SVM) for classifying SZs and HCs. We selected features using different strategies to provide a comprehensive comparison between the two methods. GIG-ICA generally showed greater sensitivity in statistical analysis and better classification performance (accuracy 76.45±8.9%, sensitivity 0.74±0.11, specificity 0.79±0.11) than STR (accuracy 67.45±8.13%, sensitivity 0.65±0.11, specificity 0.71±0.11). Importantly, results were also consistent when applied to an independent dataset including 82 HCs and 82 SZs. Our work suggests that the functional networks estimated by GIG-ICA are more sensitive to group differences, and GIG-ICA is promising for identifying image-derived biomarkers of brain disease.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalUnknown Journal
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 29 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Classification
  • fMRI
  • Functional network
  • GIG-ICA
  • ICA
  • Schizophrenia
  • Spatio-temporal regression

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Immunology and Microbiology
  • General Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics(all)

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