Now I will talk about the current progress of our project.
These are two objectives of this project. First, we applied SICE method on new dataset, I call it NACC dataset, because it is from prof. Zhou, SICE is used to construct brain connectivity network based on resting fMRI data. After network is built, we compute several network statistics and do the reliability and reproducibility analysis, and compare the result with threshold method, to see if there is advantage for SICE in terms of reliability and reproducibility.
However, this work looks not so nice since we just applied existing methods and made a comparison, we want to improve more, especially in methodology part. And I have another question, what could be our target journal to submit? I will lease these in the end.
This is a big picture of brain network analysis in general. To guide our study, we follow this flow chart to do the analysis. There are five components in this big picture, dataset, ..., connection