Browsing by Author "Nie, Feiping"

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    A New Sparse Simplex Model for Brain Anatomical and Genetic Network Analysis
    (Springer Nature, 2013) Huang, Heng; Yan, Jingwen; Nie, Feiping; Huang, Jin; Cai, Weidong; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    The Allen Brain Atlas (ABA) database provides comprehensive 3D atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain for studying the spatial expression patterns in the mammalian central nervous system. It is computationally challenging to construct the accurate anatomical and genetic networks using the ABA 4D data. In this paper, we propose a novel sparse simplex model to accurately construct the brain anatomical and genetic networks, which are important to reveal the brain spatial expression patterns. Our new approach addresses the shift-invariant and parameter tuning problems, which are notorious in the existing network analysis methods, such that the proposed model is more suitable for solving practical biomedical problems. We validate our new model using the 4D ABA data, and the network construction results show the superior performance of the proposed sparse simplex model.
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    From phenotype to genotype: an association study of longitudinal phenotypic markers to Alzheimer's disease relevant SNPs
    (Oxford University Press, 2012) Wang, Hua; Nie, Feiping; Huang, Heng; Yan, Jingwen; Kim, Sungeun; Nho, Kwangsik; Risacher, Shannon L.; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Motivation: Imaging genetic studies typically focus on identifying single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers associated with imaging phenotypes. Few studies perform regression of SNP values on phenotypic measures for examining how the SNP values change when phenotypic measures are varied. This alternative approach may have a potential to help us discover important imaging genetic associations from a different perspective. In addition, the imaging markers are often measured over time, and this longitudinal profile may provide increased power for differentiating genotype groups. How to identify the longitudinal phenotypic markers associated to disease sensitive SNPs is an important and challenging research topic. Results: Taking into account the temporal structure of the longitudinal imaging data and the interrelatedness among the SNPs, we propose a novel 'task-correlated longitudinal sparse regression' model to study the association between the phenotypic imaging markers and the genotypes encoded by SNPs. In our new association model, we extend the widely used ℓ(2,1)-norm for matrices to tensors to jointly select imaging markers that have common effects across all the regression tasks and time points, and meanwhile impose the trace-norm regularization onto the unfolded coefficient tensor to achieve low rank such that the interrelationship among SNPs can be addressed. The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated by both clearly improved prediction performance in empirical evaluations and a compact set of selected imaging predictors relevant to disease sensitive SNPs.
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    Human connectome module pattern detection using a new multi-graph MinMax cut model
    (Springer, 2014) Wang, De; Wang, Yang; Nie, Feiping; Cai, Weidong; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; Huang, Heng; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, IU School of Medicine
    Many recent scientific efforts have been devoted to constructing the human connectome using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data for understanding the large-scale brain networks that underlie higher-level cognition in human. However, suitable computational network analysis tools are still lacking in human connectome research. To address this problem, we propose a novel multi-graph min-max cut model to detect the consistent network modules from the brain connectivity networks of all studied subjects. A new multi-graph MinMax cut model is introduced to solve this challenging computational neuroscience problem and the efficient optimization algorithm is derived. In the identified connectome module patterns, each network module shows similar connectivity patterns in all subjects, which potentially associate to specific brain functions shared by all subjects. We validate our method by analyzing the weighted fiber connectivity networks. The promising empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
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    Identifying Connectome Module Patterns via New Balanced Multi-Graph Normalized Cut.
    (Springer, 2015-10) Gao, Hongchang; Cai, Chengtao; Yan, Jingwen; Yan, Lin; Cortes, Joaquin Goni; Wang, Yang; Nie, Feiping; West, John; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; Huang, Heng; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, IU School of Medicine
    Computational tools for the analysis of complex biological networks are lacking in human connectome research. Especially, how to discover the brain network patterns shared by a group of subjects is a challenging computational neuroscience problem. Although some single graph clustering methods can be extended to solve the multi-graph cases, the discovered network patterns are often imbalanced, e.g. isolated points. To address these problems, we propose a novel indicator constrained and balanced multi-graph normalized cut method to identify the connectome module patterns from the connectivity brain networks of the targeted subject group. We evaluated our method by analyzing the weighted fiber connectivity networks.
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    Sparse Multi-Task Regression and Feature Selection to Identify Brain Imaging Predictors for Memory Performance
    (IEEE, 2011) Wang, Hua; Nie, Feiping; Huang, Heng; Risacher, Shannon; Ding, Chris; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; ADNI; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive impairment of memory and other cognitive functions, which makes regression analysis a suitable model to study whether neuroimaging measures can help predict memory performance and track the progression of AD. Existing memory performance prediction methods via regression, however, do not take into account either the interconnected structures within imaging data or those among memory scores, which inevitably restricts their predictive capabilities. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel Sparse Multi-tAsk Regression and feaTure selection (SMART) method to jointly analyze all the imaging and clinical data under a single regression framework and with shared underlying sparse representations. Two convex regularizations are combined and used in the model to enable sparsity as well as facilitate multi-task learning. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by both clearly improved prediction performances in all empirical test cases and a compact set of selected RAVLT-relevant MRI predictors that accord with prior studies.
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    Structural Brain Network Constrained Neuroimaging Marker Identification for Predicting Cognitive Functions
    (Springer Nature, 2013) Wang, De; Nie, Feiping; Huang, Heng; Yan, Jingwen; Risacher, Shannon L.; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Neuroimaging markers have been widely used to predict the cognitive functions relevant to the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Most previous studies identify the imaging markers without considering the brain structural correlations between neuroimaging measures. However, many neuroimaging markers interrelate and work together to reveal the cognitive functions, such that these relevant markers should be selected together as the phenotypic markers. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel network constrained feature selection (NCFS) model to identify the neuroimaging markers guided by the structural brain network, which is constructed by the sparse representation method such that the interrelations between neuroimaging features are encoded into probabilities. Our new methods are evaluated by the MRI and AV45-PET data from ADNI-GO and ADNI-2 (Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative). In all cognitive function prediction tasks, our new NCFS method outperforms other state-of-the-art regression approaches. Meanwhile, we show that the new method can select the correlated imaging markers, which are ignored by the competing approaches.