Title
Three-way parallel independent component analysis for imaging genetics using multi-objective optimization
Date Issued
02 November 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Liu J.
Vergara V.
Chen J.
Calhoun V.
Pattichis M.
University of New Mexico
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In the biomedical field, current technology allows for the collection of multiple data modalities from the same subject. In consequence, there is an increasing interest for methods to analyze multi-modal data sets. Methods based on independent component analysis have proven to be effective in jointly analyzing multiple modalities, including brain imaging and genetic data. This paper describes a new algorithm, three-way parallel independent component analysis (3pICA), for jointly identifying genomic loci associated with brain function and structure. The proposed algorithm relies on the use of multi-objective optimization methods to identify correlations among the modalities and maximally independent sources within modality. We test the robustness of the proposed approach by varying the effect size, cross-modality correlation, noise level, and dimensionality of the data. Simulation results suggest that 3p-ICA is robust to data with SNR levels from 0 to 10 dB and effect-sizes from 0 to 3, while presenting its best performance with high cross-modality correlations, and more than one subject per 1,000 variables. In an experimental study with 112 human subjects, the method identified links between a genetic component (pointing to brain function and mental disorder associated genes, including PPP3CC, KCNQ5, and CYP7B1), a functional component related to signal decreases in the default mode network during the task, and a brain structure component indicating increases of gray matter in brain regions of the default mode region. Although such findings need further replication, the simulation and in-vivo results validate the three-way parallel ICA algorithm presented here as a useful tool in biomedical data decomposition applications.
Start page
6651
End page
6654
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas Biotecnología médica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84929493167
PubMed ID
Resource of which it is part
2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014
ISBN of the container
9781424479290
Conference
2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014
Sponsor(s)
National Institute on Drug Abuse, R21DA027626, NIDA
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