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Improved interpretability of brain-behaviour CCA with domain-driven dimension reduction

Abstract:
Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) has been widely applied to study correlations between neuroimaging data and behavioral data. Practical use of CCA typically requires dimensionality reduction with, for example, Principal Components Analysis (PCA), however, this can result in CCA results that are difficult to interpret. In this paper, we introduce a Domain-driven Dimension Reduction (DDR) method, reducing the dimensionality of the original datasets combining human knowledge of the structure of the variables studied. We apply the method to the Human Connectome Project S1200 release and compare standard PCA across all variables with DDR applied to individual classes of variables, finding that DDR-CCA results are more stable and interpretable, allowing the contribution of each class of variable to be better understood. By carefully designing the analysis pipeline and cross-validating the results, we offer more insights on the interpretation of CCA applied to brain-behaviour data.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.3389/fnins.2022.851827

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
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Publisher:
Frontiers Media
Journal:
Frontiers in Neuroscience More from this journal
Volume:
16
Article number:
851827
Publication date:
2022-06-23
Acceptance date:
2022-05-24
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EISSN:
1662-453X
ISSN:
1662-4548


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English
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Pubs id:
1262660
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pubs:1262660
Deposit date:
2022-06-09

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