Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Processing

Preface.- MRI perfusion weighted imaging analysis.- Perfusion imaging.- Gamma-variate fitting.- AIF selection.- Dispersion effects in DSC-MRI.- -Summary of the PWI algorithm.- First level fMRI data analysis for activation detection.- fMRI experimental design.- fMRI data pre-processing.- Activation detection: model free and model based methods.- Models for hemodynamic response function and drift.- General linear model (GLM) for activation detect.- Hypothesis test and threshold correction.- Summary of algorithm for 1st level fMRI data analysis.- 2nd level fMRI data analysis using mixed model.- Mixed model for fMRI data analysis.- Numerical analysis for mixed effect models.- Iterative trust region method for ML estimation.- Exception trust region algorithm for second level fMRI data analysis.- Degree of freedom (DF) estimation.- fMRI data analysis future directions.- Second level fMRI data processing algorithm summary.- fMRI effective connectivity study.- Nonlinear system identificationmethod for fMRI effective connectivity analysis.- Model selections for effective connectivity study.- Robust method for second level analysis.- Effective connectivity for resting-state fMRI data.- Limitations for fMRI effective connectivity in this study.- Summary of the algorithm for fMRI effective connectivity study.Diffusion weighted imaging analysis.- Basic principle of diffusion MRI and DTI data analysis.- Fiber tracking.- High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) analysis.- Adaptive Q-ball imaging regularization.- Diffusion spectrum imaging.- Summary and future directions.- Summary of DTI, QBI and DSI image analysis methods.- Voxel based morphometry and its application to Alzheimer's disease study.- Background for voxel based morphometry analysis.- Enhanced VBM.- Longitudinal VBM and its application to AD study.- Effective connectivity for longitudinal data analysis.- Other type of sMRI data analysis.- Summary of (longitudinal) VBM analysis methods.- Appendixes.- Questionanswers and hints.