January 12, 2018　　Friday Lunch Seminar
12:15 〜 13:00

CiNet　1F　Conference Room

“Hierarchical Bayesian diffuse optical tomography for task-evoked and resting-state brain activities”

Takeaki Shimokawa

Senior researcher
Neural Information Analysis Laboratories
ATR

Host PI ：Okito Yamashita

Abstract:

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an advanced imaging method to increase spatial resolution of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurement. Previously, we have proposed a hierarchical Bayesian (HB) DOT algorithm. The HB-DOT algorithm accurately reconstructs not only the cortical activity but also the scalp activity, which causes the artifact signal in NIRS measurement, by using distinct prior distributions for the scalp and the cortical activities. We have already verified its performance for task-evoked cortical activities. It showed improved spatial-pattern similarity and fewer false positives than the standard DOT algorithm. Currently, we study its performance for resting-state cortical activities. We evaluate the DOT performance by comparing the functional connectivity (FC) matrix derived from DOT and that from fMRI.
Our preliminary results indicate that HB-DOT shows better FC matrix correlation with fMRI than the standard DOT methods. The results indicate that the HB-DOT method well generalizes to resting-state activity measurement.

About CiNet’s Friday Lunch Seminars:
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