Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Hum Brain Mapp. 2009 Dec;30(12):3865-86. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20813.
Baseline activity of resting state brain networks (RSN) in a resting subject has become one of the fastest growing research topics in neuroimaging. It has been shown that up to 12 RSNs can be differentiated using an independent component analysis (ICA) of the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) resting state data. In this study, we investigate how many RSN signal sources can be separated from the entire brain cortex using high dimension ICA analysis from a group dataset. Group data from 55 subjects was analyzed using temporal concatenation and a probabilistic independent component analysis algorithm. ICA repeatability testing verified that 60 of the 70 computed components were robustly detectable. Forty-two independent signal sources were identifiable as RSN, and 28 were related to artifacts or other noninterest sources (non-RSN). The depicted RSNs bore a closer match to functional neuroanatomy than the previously reported RSN components. The non-RSN sources have significantly lower temporal intersource connectivity than the RSN (P < 0.0003). We conclude that the high model order ICA of the group BOLD data enables functional segmentation of the brain cortex. The method enables new approaches to causality and connectivity analysis with more specific anatomical details.
静息状态大脑网络(RSN)的基线活动已成为神经影像学中发展最快的研究课题之一。研究表明,使用血氧水平依赖(BOLD)静息状态数据的独立成分分析(ICA)可以区分多达 12 个 RSN。在这项研究中,我们使用高维 ICA 分析从组数据集研究了可以从整个大脑皮层分离出多少个 RSN 信号源。使用时间串联和概率独立成分分析算法分析了来自 55 个受试者的组数据。ICA 可重复性测试验证了计算出的 60 个分量是稳健可检测的。可以识别出 42 个独立的信号源作为 RSN,而 28 个与伪影或其他非感兴趣源(非 RSN)有关。所描绘的 RSN 与功能神经解剖学的匹配程度比以前报道的 RSN 成分更接近。与 RSN 相比,非 RSN 源的时间内源连接性显著降低(P < 0.0003)。我们得出结论,组 BOLD 数据的高模型阶 ICA 能够实现大脑皮层的功能分割。该方法为具有更具体解剖细节的因果关系和连通性分析提供了新的方法。