Temporal and Cross-Subject Probabilistic Models for fMRI Prediction Tasks

Alexis Battle, Gal Chechik, Daphne Koller

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Abstract

We present a probabilistic model applied to the fMRI video rating prediction task of the Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition (PBAIC) [2]. Our goal is to predict a time series of subjective, semantic ratings of a movie given functional MRI data acquired during viewing by three subjects. Our method uses conditionally trained Gaussian Markov random fields, which model both the relationships between the subjects' fMRI voxel measurements and the ratings, as well as the dependencies of the ratings across time steps and between subjects. We also employed non-traditional methods for feature selection and regularization that exploit the spatial structure of voxel activity in the brain. The model displayed good performance in predicting the scored ratings for the three subjects in test data sets, and a variant of this model was the third place entrant to the 2006 PBAIC.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNIPS 2006
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
EditorsBernhard Scholkopf, John C. Platt, Thomas Hofmann
PublisherMIT Press Journals
Pages121-128
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)0262195682, 9780262195683
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 4 Dec 20067 Dec 2006

Publication series

NameNIPS 2006: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period4/12/067/12/06

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