2025/04/17 by Ryu, Howon, Thomas Maullin-Sapey, Maullin-Sapey, Thomas +4
Medicine · Neuroscience · #Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Face Recognition and Perception #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Methodology (stat.ME) #Statistics Theory (math.ST)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.13124
openalex publication_date 2025/04/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Identifying areas where the signal is prominent is an important task in image analysis, with particular applications in brain mapping. In this work, we develop confidence regions for spatial excursion sets above and below a given level. We achieve this by treating the confidence procedure as a testing problem at the given level, allowing control of the False Discovery Rate (FDR). Methods are developed to control the FDR, separately for positive and negative excursions, as well as jointly over both. Furthermore, power is increased by incorporating a two-stage adaptive procedure. Simulation results with various signals show that our confidence regions successfully control the FDR under the nominal level. We showcase our methods with an application to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project illustrating the improvement in statistical power over existing approaches.