Chunying Jia

Ms. Chunying Jia

University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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27 September 2022 in Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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CJChunying Jia
Chunying Jia
QLQunfang Long
Qunfang Long
TEThomas Ernst
Thomas Ernst
YSYuanqi Shang
Yuanqi Shang
LCLinda Chang
Linda Chang
TATülay Adali
Tülay Adali

9 September 2021 in Applied Sciences
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CJChunying Jia
Chunying Jia
MAMohammad Abu Baker Siddique Akhonda
Mohammad Abu Baker Siddique Akhonda
YLYuri Levin-Schwartz
Yuri Levin-Schwartz
QLQunfang Long
Qunfang Long
VCVince Calhoun
Vince Calhoun
TATülay Adali
Tülay Adali
Brain signals can be measured using multiple imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based techniques. Different modalities convey distinct yet complementary information; thus, their joint analyses can provide valuable insight into how the brain functions in both healthy and diseased conditions. Data-driven approaches have proven most useful for multimodal fusion as they minimize assumptions imposed on the data, and there are a number of methods that have been developed to uncover relationships across modalities. However, none of these methods, to the best of our knowledge, can discover “one-to-many associations”, meaning one component from one modality is linked with more than one component from another modality. However, such “one-to-many associations” are likely to exist, since the same brain region can be involved in multiple neurological processes. Additionally, most existing data fusion methods require the signal subspace order to be identical for all modalities—a severe restriction for real-world data of different modalities. Here, we propose a new fusion technique—the consecutive independence and correlation transform (C-ICT) model—which successively performs independent component analysis and independent vector analysis and is uniquely flexible in terms of the number of datasets, signal subspace order, and the opportunity to find “one-to-many associations”. We apply C-ICT to fuse diffusion MRI, structural MRI, and functional MRI datasets collected from healthy controls (HCs) and patients with schizophrenia (SZs). We identify six interpretable triplets of components, each of which consists of three associated components from the three modalities. Besides, components from these triplets that show significant group differences between the HCs and SZs are identified, which could be seen as putative biomarkers in schizophrenia.