Journal
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 1-25Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20045
Keywords
functional connectivity; wavelet transform; surrogate data; brain dynamics; bootstrapping; resampling
Funding
- MRC [G9439390, G0001237] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G9439390, G0001237] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0001237, G9439390] Funding Source: Medline
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The study of dynamic interdependences between brain regions is currently a very active research field. For any connectivity study, it is important to determine whether correlations between two selected brain regions are statistically significant or only chance effects due to non-specific correlations present throughout the data. In this report, we present a wavelet-based non-parametric technique for testing the null hypothesis that the correlations are typical of the data set and not unique to the regions of interest. This is achieved through spatiotemporal resampling of the data in the wavelet domain. Two functional MRI data sets were analysed: (1) Data from 8 healthy human subjects viewing a checkerboard image, and (2) Null data obtained from 3 healthy human subjects, resting,with eyes closed. It was demonstrated that constrained resampling of the data in the wavelet domain allows construction of bootstrapped data with four essential properties: (1) Spatial and temporal correlations within and between slices are preserved, (2) The irregular geometry of the intracranial images is maintained, (3) There is adequate type I error control, and (4) Expected experiment-induced correlations are identified. The limitations and possible extensions of the proposed technique are discussed. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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