kernel methods for de-noising with neuroimaging application trine julie abrahamsen september 8, 2009

Kernel Methods for De-noising withNeuroimaging Application

Trine Julie Abrahamsen

September 8, 2009

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Overview

• Introduction

• Kernel Principal Component Analysis

• The Pre-image Problem

• Analysis of Cimbi Data

• Conclusions

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Introduction

Introduction - Kernel PCA - The Pre-image Problem - Analysis of Cimbi Data – Conclusions

• Kernel PCA for de-noising

• The pre-image problem is a key aspect in achieving good results

Objective

The over all aim of this project is two-fold

• To investigate the pre-image problem

• Apply kernel methods for de-noising on neuroimaging data

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Introducing Kernels

The idea of kernel methods

Often

Introduction - Kernel PCA - The Pre-image Problem - Analysis of Cimbi Data - Conclusions

The Gaussian kernel

Definition of kernel function:

Mika et al. 1999

Schölkopf et al. 2001

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Kernel Principal Component Analysis


Linear PCA is performed in feature space. Thus, the first PC can be found as the normal direction, v1 , by

All solutions must lie in the span of the training images, hence,

The projection of onto the i’th PC can be found as

While the projection onto the subspace spanned by the first q PCs is given by


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Kernel PCA - Illustration


PCA

Kernel PCA

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The Pre-Image Problem


The pre-image problem = reconstruction of point in input space from feature space point

Ill-posed due to properties of the -map.

Relax search to find approximate pre-image

Common methods seek to minimize the feature space distance

where

Mika et al. 1999


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Overview of Current Estimation Schemes


Mika et al.

Kwok & Tsang

Dambreville et al.

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Input Space Distance Regularization


Which is equivalent to minimizing

For RBF kernels the cost function (which should be maximized) reduces to

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Experiments on the USPS Data Set


USPS digits Gaussian noise added Mika et al. Input space regularization

Hull 1994

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(a) Kwok & Tsang (2004)

(b) Mika et al. (1999)

(c) Dambreville et al. (2006)

(d) Input Space Reg.

Evaluating the stability by confidence intervals on the mean squared error.

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Introducing the Cimbi Analysis


• De-noising for refining statistical significance

• D = 14 regions representing the frontolimbic area.

• Serotonin receptor binding potential quantified from

PET scans

• Neuroticism, Anxiety, and Vulnerability

• N = 129.

• Initial experiments on training and test sets

www.cimbi.org

Frøkjaer 2008

http://www.cimbi.org/

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Applying Kernel PCA De-noising


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Neuroticism p=0.11 p=0.057*

Anxiety p=0.063* p=0.015**

Vulnerability p=0.039** p=0.018**

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Learning curves


• 100 subsets sampled without replacement

• Data set sizes 5,10,…,125,129

• c chosen as 5th percentile and q chosen so 65% of variance is described

• Dambreville et al.

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Conclusions


• Adding input space distance regularization stabilizes the pre-image with limited sacrifice in terms of de-noising efficiency

• For the Cimbi data Dambreville et al.’s method proved very efficient

• When working on all 129 subjects a remarkable decrease in p-value could be achieved for both neuroticism, vulnerability, and anxiety

• Derive guidelines for choosing the regularization parameter λ

• Introduce other types of regularization

• Investigate other applications of kernel PCA (e.g., outlier detection)

• Improve performance by varying the kernel and its parameters

• Include non-linear adjustment for age and gender

Future Work

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References

Kernel Methods for De-noising withNeuroimaging Application

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Many local minima with almost equal value


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Distance distortions for non-linear kernels


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Permutation Test


• Non-parametric test

• Re-arrange trait score on BP

• p-value is found as the proportion of sampled permutations where the correlation is greater or equal to the correlation found on the original data.

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Introduction - Kernel PCA - The Pre-Image Problem - Analysis of Cimbi Data - Conclusions

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Bootstrap Resampling

Introduction - Kernel PCA - The Pre-Image Problem - Analysis of Cimbi Data - Conclusions

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Log(p) before de-noising

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