Unsupervised learning toward brain imaging data analysis: Cigarette craving and resistance related neuronal activations from functional magnetic resonance imaging data analysis

Dong Youl Kim, Jong Hwan Lee

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Abstract

A data-driven unsupervised learning such as an independent component analysis was gainfully applied to bloodoxygenation- level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data compared to a model-based general linear model (GLM). This is due to an ability of this unsupervised learning method to extract a meaningful neuronal activity from BOLD signal that is a mixture of confounding non-neuronal artifacts such as head motions and physiological artifacts as well as neuronal signals. In this study, we support this claim by identifying neuronal underpinnings of cigarette craving and cigarette resistance. The fMRI data were acquired from heavy cigarette smokers (n = 14) while they alternatively watched images with and without cigarette smoking. During acquisition of two fMRI runs, they were asked to crave when they watched cigarette smoking images or to resist the urge to smoke. Data driven approaches of group independent component analysis (GICA) method based on temporal concatenation (TC) and TCGICA with an extension of iterative dual-regression (TC-GICA-iDR) were applied to the data. From the results, cigarette craving and cigarette resistance related neuronal activations were identified in the visual area and superior frontal areas, respectively with a greater statistical significance from the TC-GICA-iDR method than the TC-GICA method. On the other hand, the neuronal activity levels in many of these regions were not statistically different from the GLM method between the cigarette craving and cigarette resistance due to potentially aberrant BOLD signals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIndependent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Wavelets, Neural Net, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering XII
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Print)9781628410556
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventIndependent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Wavelets, Neural Net, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering XII - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: 2014 May 72014 May 9

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9118
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Other

OtherIndependent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Wavelets, Neural Net, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering XII
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period14/5/714/5/9

Keywords

  • Blood oxygenation level dependent
  • cigarette craving
  • cigarette resistance
  • dual regression
  • functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • general linear model
  • independent component analysis
  • unsupervised learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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