Primary Themes

1. Activation Pattern Reproducibility
   • The quantitative evaluation of functional neuroimaging experiments: The NPAIRS data analysis framework.
     Strother SC, Anderson J, Hansen LK, Kjems U, Kustra R, Siditis J, Frutiger S, Muley S, LaConte S, Rottenberg D.
     Neuroimage (submitted)
   • The reproducibility of activation patterns in patient and control populations: Measurement of group and subject effects.
     Strother SC, Anderson JR, Frutiger S, Hansen LK, Lange N, Sidtis JJ, Daly D, Arnold JB, Rottenberg DA.
     J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 19(Supp 1):S829, 1999
   • Reproducibility of BOLD-Based Functional MRI Obtained at 4T.
     Carola Tegeler, Stephen C. Strother, Jon R. Anderson and Seong-Gi Kim.
     Human Brain Mapping 7:267-283, 1999
   • Comparison of Matched BOLD and FAIR 4.0T-fMRI with [15O]water PET Brain Volumes.
     M.R. Zaini, S.C. Strother, J.R. Anderson, J-S. Liow, U. Kjems, C. Tegeler, S-G. Kim.
     Medical Physics 26:1559-1567, 1999
   • (Related Paper) Enhancing the multivariate signal of [15O]water PET studies with a new nonlinear neuroanatomical registration algorithm.
     U. Kjems, S.C. Strother, J.R. Anderson, I. Law, L.K. Hansen.
     IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 18:301-319, 1999
2. Generalization (Prediction) Error
   < Generalization error > = < Training error(N) > + dim( )/N
   • The quantitative evaluation of functional neuroimaging experiments: Mutual information learning curves.
     Kjems U, Hansen LK, Anderson J, Frutiger S, Muley S, Sidtis J, Rottenberg D, Strother SC.
     Neuroimage (submitted)
   • Penalized discriminant analysis of [15O]water PET brain images with prediction error selection of smoothness and regularization hyperparameters.
     Rafal Kustra, Stephen C. Strother.
     IEEE Trans. Med. Img (in press).
   • Generalizable patterns in Neuroimaging: How many principal components?
     L.K. Hansen, J. Larsen, F.A. Nielsen, S.C. Strother, E. Rostrup, Robert Savoy, N. Lange, J. Sidtis, C. Svarer, O.B. Paulson.
     Neuroimage 9:534-544, 1999
   • Two Excellent Overviews of Multivariate Analysis in a Prediction Error Framework.
     1. A Multivariate Approach to Functional Neuro Modeling
        Niels Mørch. PhD Thesis, Danish Technical University, 1998.
        URL: http://eivind.imm.dtu.dk/publications/phdthesis.html
     2. Statistical Analysis of Medical Images with Applications to Neuroimaging
        Rafal Kustra. PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2000.
        URL: http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/~rafal/thesis.ps.gz & http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/~rafal/thesisColors.ps
3. Model Consensus
   • Consensus Inference in Neuroimaging
     L.K. Hansen, F.A. Nielsen, S.C. Strother, N. Lange. Neuroimage (in press)
   • Plurality and resemblance in fMRI data analysis.
     N. Lange, S.C. Strother, J.R. Anderson, F.A. Nielsen, A. Holmes,T. Kolenda, R. Savoy, L.K. Hansen.
     Neuroimage 10:282-303, 1999
     data may be downloaded here