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FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1235321
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Gaussian process; segmentation; Alzheimer's disease; imaging genetics; PET imaging
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This study proposes a Bayesian hierarchical model to investigate the shape and intensity of brain activation regions, and develops efficient posterior computation algorithms. The results demonstrate the significant application value of this model in Alzheimer's disease research.
Biological evidence indicewates that the brain atrophy can be involved at the onset of neuropathological pathways of Alzheimer's disease. However, there is lack of formal statistical methods to perform genetic dissection of brain activation phenotypes such as shape and intensity. To this end, we propose a Bayesian hierarchical model which consists of two levels of hierarchy. At level 1, we develop a Bayesian nonparametric level set (BNLS) model for studying the brain activation region shape. At level 2, we construct a regression model to select genetic variants that are strongly associated with the brain activation intensity, where a spike-and-slab prior and a Gaussian prior are chosen for feature selection. We develop efficient posterior computation algorithms based on the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. We demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method via extensive simulation studies and analyses of imaging genetics data in the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (ADNI) study.
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