Seed Proposal: Developing Novel Methods for Neuroimage Analysis with Applications to Cultural Psychology
Y. Michelle Wang, Departments of Statistics, Psychology and Bioengineering
Denise C. Park, Department of Psychology
Bradley P. Sutton, Department of Bioengineering, Biomedical Imaging Center
Increasingly, scientists collaborate across sites in brain imaging research, Thus, there is an increasing need for the development of improved analyses for interpretation of fMRI and sMRI data collected from different classes of subjects or patients and across different magnets or sites. This proposal seeks to develop novel, integrated methods for analyzing sMRI and fMRI data across sites, utilizing data collected from a project on the aging brain conducted jointly by scientists at UIUC and Singapore General Hospital. The project will develop novel analysis techniques as well as procedures for assessing comparability of neural signal across different research sites. The techniques developed will be available for applications in cross-cultural MRI data analysis as well as other applications more generally. This new project will not only advance research on the cognitive neuroscience of culture and aging, but also contribute to bioengineering research in medical imaging and biosignal analysis.