@misc{10481/34823,
year = {2014},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/34823},
abstract = {The ability to accurately estimate effective connectivity among brain regions from neuroimaging data could help answering many open questions in neuroscience. We propose a method which uses causality to obtain a measure of effective connectivity from fMRI data. The method uses a vector autoregressive model for the latent variables describing neuronal activity in combination with a linear observation model based on a convolution with a hemodynamic response function. Due to the employed modeling, it is possible to efficiently estimate all latent variables of the model using a variational Bayesian inference algorithm. The computational efficiency of the method enables us to apply it to large scale problems with high sampling rates and several hundred regions of interest. We use a comprehensive empirical evaluation with synthetic and real fMRI data to evaluate the performance of our method under various conditions.},
organization = {This work was partially supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD042049). Martin Luessi was partially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship 148485. This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy under Contract DE-NA0000457, the “Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación” under Contract TIN2010-15137, and the CEI BioTic with the Universidad de Granada Data were provided (in part) by the Human Connectome Project, WU-Minn Consortium (Principal Investigators: David Van Essen and Kamil Ugurbil; 1U54MH091657) funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; and by the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience at Washington University.},
publisher = {Frontiers  Research Foundation},
keywords = {fMRI},
keywords = {Causality},
keywords = {Connectivity},
keywords = {Variational Bayesian method},
keywords = {Granger causality},
title = {Variational Bayesian causal connectivity analysis for fMRI},
doi = {10.3389/fninf.2014.00045},
author = {Luessi, Martin and Babacan, S. Derin and Molina Soriano, Rafael and Booth, James R. and Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.},
}