Research Skills

​​NEUROIMAGING DATA ANALYSES

 

  Task-Dependent fMRI Analyses

• General Linear Modeling (GLM)

       - Related Research : [Task Difficulty],[Impression Formation],[Common Sense],[Emotional Attention]

 

• Beta-series analysis: Least Squares All (LSA), Least Squares Single (LSS)

       - Related Research : [Impression Formation]

 

• Psychophysiological Interaction (PPI) analysis

       - Related Research : [Common Sense]

 

• Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

       - To extract representative time-series of regions of interest in fMRI data

 

 

   Brain-Activity Pattern Analyses

• Multivariate Pattern Analysis (MVPA), functional connectivity MVPA, searchlight MVPA

       - Related Research : [Task Difficulty], [Common Sense],[Emotional Laborers' Resting fMRI],[Emotional Attention]

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• Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA)

• Machine learning techniques

        - Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), etc.

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• Graph theoretical analysis: centrality analysis

      - Related Research :  [Common Sense], [Emotional Laborers' Resting fMRI], [Emotional Attention]

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​​​   Resting-State fMRI Analyses

• Independent Component Analysis (ICA) 

       - Related Research: [tDCS resting]

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• Regional Homogeneity (ReHo)

• Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (ALFF), fractional ALFF

• Seed-based functional connectivity 

       - Related Research : [tDCS resting fMRI]

 

 

   fMRI Data Denoising 

• Physiological artifacts removal

• Motion artifacts removal: motion-related independent components, voxel-by-voxel framewise displacement (FD)

 

 

 

NEUROIMAGING STATISTICAL TOOLS

 

   Neuroimaging Software

• Statistical Parametric Mapping 8 (SPM 8), SPM 12

        - www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/

 

• Group ICA of fMRI Toolbox (GIFT)

        - Independent Component Analysis 

        - http://mialab.mrn.org

 

• FMRIB Software Library (FSL)

        - https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki

 

• Analysis of Functional NeuroImages (AFNI)

       - https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/

 

• FreeSurfer

       - To segment individual-specific structural brain data
       - surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/

 

 

   Resting-State fMRI Software

• Data Processing Assistant for Resting-State fMRI (DPARSF)

• Resting-State fMRI Data Analysis Toolkit (REST)

        - http://restfmri.net/forum/index.php

 

 

   Machine Learning Tools

• Spider, Princeton MVPA, Orange

       - Multivariate pattern analyses for fMRI data
       - people.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/spider/, pni.princeton.edu/pni-software-tools/mvpa-toolbox/, orange.biolab.si/

 

 

   Connectivity Analysis Tool

• BASCO 

- https://www.nitrc.org/projects/basco/

 

 

  Graph Theoretical Analysis Tools

• GraphVar

        - To analyze fMRI data using graph theory approach
        - ww.nitrc.org/projects/graphvar/

 

• Gephi

       - gephi.org/

 

 

   ROI Analysis Tool

• MarsBar

       - http://marsbar.sourceforge.net/

 

 

    fMRI Data Denoising Tools

• TAPAS: PhysIO toolbox

       - https://www.tnu.ethz.ch/en/software/tapas.html

 

• ICA-AROMA

       - https://github.com/maartenmennes/ICA-AROMA

 

 

 

NEUROIMAGING VISUALIZATION TOOLS

 

• Pycortex 

        - github.com/gallantlab/pycortex/

 

• Connectome Workbench 

       - www.humanconnectome.org/software/connectome-workbench.html

 

• BrainNet Viewer 

       - www.nitrc.org/projects/bnv

 

• MRIcro / MRIcroN / MRIcroGL 

      - www.nitrc.org/projects/mricron/, www.mccauslandcenter.sc.edu/mricrogl/

 

 

 

PROGRAMMING

 

• MATLAB

• R

• Python

• VISUAL BASIC 6.0, Excel Macros (Visual Basic for Applications)

 

 

 

STATISTICS

 

• SPSS 24

• Excel Solver

• R Stan: Bayesian statistical modeling

       - http://mc-stan.org/

 

 

 

OTHERS

 

• MRI Console (GE, Philips)

        - Conversant with fMRI scanning procedure, including modifying scanning protocols and sequences through the console

 

• MRI-related products

        - i.e. goggles, SyncBox, etc. 

        - NordicNeuroLab http://www.nordicneurolab.com/

 

• Philips physiologic monitoring

       - Peripheral Pulse Unit (PPU), respiration sensor

 

• tDCS devices

       - neuroConn DC-STIMULATOR MC https://www.rogue-resolutions.com/catalogue/neuro-modulation/hd-tdcs/

       - foc.us https://www.foc.us/

       - The Brain Stimulator https://thebrainstimulator.net/

 

• MATLAB Cogent 2000, Psychophysics Toolbox 3

        - To write scripts for experimental designs 

 

• Gephi

       - To visualize node and edge information of functional connectivity data 

       - gephi.org/

 

• Talairach Daemon

        - To convert MNI coordinates to Talairach space of fMRI data 

        - www.talairach.org/daemon.html

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• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

• Adobe Photoshop

• Prism

 

 

 

LANGUAGES

 

• Native in Korean

• Fluent in English

• Fluent in Japanese 

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