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Objective: Imporving the accuracy of activation detection in fMRI through incorporation of sophisticated prior models on activation, including anatomical priors.

Progress:

The work on MRF-based regularization of the fMRI activation maps was presented at IPMI last summer. The algorithm implementation in Slicer is underway in collaboration with BWH. Our plans include releasing the code into the itk libaray.

Publications:

• Wanmei Ou, Polina Golland. From Spatial Regularization to Anatomical Priors in fMRI Analysis. In Proc. IPMI 2005, LNCS 3565:88-100, 2005. (pdf)
• Wanmei Ou. fMRI Detection with Spatial Regularization. MIT Master Thesis, May 2005. (pdf)

Key Investigators:

• MIT: Polina Golland, Wanmei Ou
• BWH: Steve Pieper, Sandy Wells, Wendy Plesniak, Carsten Richter

Links:

• fMRI Analysis Page
• Page describing this project
• Recent Update