The Pairwise Elastic Net support vector machine for automatic fMRI feature selection

Alexander Lorbert, Peter Jeffrey Ramadge

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Abstract

A support vector machine (SVM) regularized with the Pairwise Elastic Net (PEN) penalty is used to automatically select a sparse set of brain voxel clusters based on the fMRI responses to two stimuli classes. This requires solving the PEN-SVM quadratic program. We show how to design the PEN regularization to encode, in a graph-based fashion, the pairwise similarity structure of the voxel fMRI responses and how to control the spatial locality of the encoding using a voxel searchlight. The voxel similarity encoding is reflected in the sparse structure of the weights of trained PEN-SVM and these weights automatically select a sparse set of voxel clusters. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach using a real-world, multi-subject fMRI dataset.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013 - Proceedings
Pages1036-1040
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 18 2013
Event2013 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: May 26 2013May 31 2013

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2013 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period5/26/135/31/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Feature Selection
  • Pairwise Elastic Net
  • Sparsity
  • Support Vector Machine
  • fMRI

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