Analysis Methods in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
ECE511
Spring Semester, 2012
Location: CEC 1030
Time: Tuesdays, TBD
Instructor: Vince D Calhoun
Email: vcalhoun (at) unm.edu
Phone: 272-1817
Office: ECE 224B, Mind Research Network:
Office Hours: TBA and by appointment
Text (required):
Computing Brain Activity Maps from FMRI Time-Series Images (ISBN 0521868262)
Gordon Sarty
Data (visuomotor task, auditory oddball, description of auditory oddball, data collected in class)
Unprocessed/Preprocessed Data (motor)
Lectures (Jan 24-May 8) [disclaimer: many of the lecture slides are borrowed from others]:
1) Jan 24: Course Intro: Overview of MRI Physics & Basics of BOLD fMRI [Noll, pg 1-7, MRI Made Easy (almost)]
2) Jan 31: Basic brain anatomy, basic mathematics and software tools (Anatomy Primer, Sarty Chapter 1, Matlab Primer [1, 2, 2 (files), 3, 3 (files)], Matrix Primer) [Book chapters are password protected...contact instructor for password]
3) Feb 7: Preprocessing I & II (Sarty: 2.1-2.3, Oakes Comparison, Friere Similarity Measure, Viola Mutual Information)
4) Feb 14: Preprocessing III & IV: Anatomic transformation to standard brain spaces (Sarty: 2.4-2.6), Temporal Filtering (Glover; RETROICOR, Kruger Physiologic Noise)
5) Feb 21 Paradigm design (blocked and event-related) (Sarty Chapter 3) (Burock, rapid fMRI; Monty GLM Critique), The GLM‑univariate approaches (Sarty: 4.1)
6) Feb 28: Random effects/multiple comparisons (Sarty: 4.3),
7) Mar 9: Tour of MRI Scanner (@ Mind Research Network)
8) Mar 13: NO CLASS (Spring Recess)
9) Mar 20: (quiz handed out [due Friday March 23rd], approval of critique paper) Modeling the hemodynamic response (buxton balloon model) (Sarty: 4.2), Bayesian & Nonparametric methods (Sarty: 4.4-4.5, Genovese)
10) Mar 27: Functional connectivity (correlation) (Sarty: 5.5), Effective connectivity (SEM/DBN) (Sarty: 5.6)
11) Apr 3: Principal and independent component analysis (Sarty: 5.2) [review article]
12) Apr 10: (term paper due) Group ICA
13) Apr 24: Wavelet methods (Sarty: 5.3) [review article], Clustering methods (Sarty: 5.4), The GLM‑multivariate approaches/PLS (Sarty: 5.1) [PLS toolbox]
14) Apr 20: [deconvolution & balloon model], Fourier methods/Repeatability and comparison of methods (Sarty: 4.6-4.7), Real time fMRI (Sarty: 4.8)
15) Apr 27: Integration with other modalities: EEG, DTI, genetics
16) May 4: (projects due): Student Presentations