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Principal Investigator's Name: Zhengjun Zhang
Institution: University of Wisconsin
Department: Statistics
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Proposed Analysis: We are going to use tail quotient correlation coefficients (TQCC) and generalized measures of correlation (GMC) to study hidden functional connectivity among localized regions of pixels. TQCC has been successfully applied to climate image analysis. TQCC (and NQCC) is a nonlinear dependence measure, which is particularly useful for detecting rare event, i.e. rare diseases. Using GMC, a possible directed network graphs may be constructed. We are going to compare hidden functional connectivity from images diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and hidden functional connectivity from images not yet diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or in progress. There is a chance to discover important connectivity associated with rare diseases.
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