A quantitative analysis of noncircularity for complex-valued fMRI based on semi-blind ICA

Jia Chen Wang, Qiu Hua Lin, Fengyu Cong, Vince D. Calhoun

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Abstract

The spatial components included in complex-valued functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are generally assumed to be noncircular signals. In this paper, we try to quantitatively investigate the noncircularity of fMRI with a measure called the degree of impropriety (DOI). Two semi-blind complex ICA algorithms, the kurtosis maximization (KM) algorithm suitable for separating noncircular sources and the complex fastICA algorithm (CfastICA) derived for recovering circular signals, are performed to estimate the spatial components, and two kinds of fMRI data including a simulated complex-valued fMRI dataset and a real complex-valued fMRI data are used for DOI tests. Results show that, semi-blind KM algorithm always outperforms semi-blind CfastICA algorithm, the DOI indices for the estimated components from the real fMRI data are smaller than those from the simulated fMRI data but significantly larger than typical circular signals. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that the complex-valued components of fMRI are noncircular.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2011 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, iCAST 2011
Pages154-159
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, iCAST 2011 - Dalian, China
Duration: Sep 27 2011Sep 30 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2011 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, iCAST 2011

Other

Other2011 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, iCAST 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period9/27/119/30/11

Keywords

  • complex ICA
  • complex-valued fMRI
  • degree of impropriety (DOI)
  • noncircularity
  • semi-blind ICA

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications

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