Presentation 2021-03-04
Evaluation of effect of source noise on magnetoencephalography source estimation using a structured sparse model
Kai Miyazaki, Shun Nirasawa, Kazuaki Akamatsu, Yoichi Miyawaki,
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Abstract(in English) Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a method to acquire human brain activity at a high temporal resolution, but its spatial resolution is insufficient to examine active cortical locations. Previous studies have shown that source estimation methods identify active cortical locations with reasonable accuracy and are thus used in various applications of human functional neuroimaging. However, our recent studies suggest that the combination of the source estimation and multivariate pattern analysis (for example, neural decoding) produces “information spreading,” a false positive phenomenon in terms of the identification of informative cortical areas. To resolve this problem, we proposed the application of grouped automatic relevance determination (gARD) that implements functional parcellation of the human brain, showing its better performance to analyze task-relevant brain activity than conventional source estimations. In this study, we further examined the effect of task-irrelevant components such as spontaneous activity on source estimation accuracy and the extent of suppression of information spreading. Results showed that gARD achieved better performance in suppressing information spreading and identifying informative cortical locations while showing source estimation performance equivalent to the conventional method under the noise condition close to real data. These results suggest that our method might be useful for identifying task-relevant source activity and analyzing the corresponding information representation under a mixture of a variety of task-irrelevant cortical activity.
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Keyword(in English) MEG source estimation / structured sparse model / gARD / information spreading / source noise
Paper # NC2020-56
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2021/3/3(3days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Neuro Computing, Medical Engineering, etc.
Chair Kazuyuki Samejima(Tamagawa Univ) / Takashi Watanabe(Tohoku Univ.)
Vice Chair Rieko Osu(Waseda Univ.) / Ryuhei Okuno(Setsunan Univ.)
Secretary Rieko Osu(NTT) / Ryuhei Okuno(ATR)
Assistant Ken Takiyama(TUAT) / Nobuhiko Wagatsuma(Toho Univ.) / Akihiro Karashima(Tohoku Inst. of Tech.) / Jun Akazawa(Meiji Univ. of Integrative Medicine)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Evaluation of effect of source noise on magnetoencephalography source estimation using a structured sparse model
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) MEG source estimation
Keyword(2) structured sparse model
Keyword(3) gARD
Keyword(4) information spreading
Keyword(5) source noise
1st Author's Name Kai Miyazaki
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
2nd Author's Name Shun Nirasawa
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
3rd Author's Name Kazuaki Akamatsu
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
4th Author's Name Yoichi Miyawaki
4th Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
Date 2021-03-04
Paper # NC2020-56
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) NC-403
Page pp.pp.77-82(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (NC)