| Title: | GeoSPM: Geostatistical parametric mapping for medicine |
| Journal: | Patterns |
| Published: | 9 Dec 2022 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36569555/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100656 |
Publication 8045
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Abstract
The characteristics and determinants of health and disease are often organized in space, reflecting our spatially extended nature. Understanding the influence of such factors requires models capable of capturing spatial relations. Drawing on statistical parametric mapping, a framework for topological inference well established in the realm of neuroimaging, we propose and validate an approach to the spatial analysis of diverse clinical data-GeoSPM-based on differential geometry and random field theory. We evaluate GeoSPM across an extensive array of synthetic simulations encompassing diverse spatial relationships, sampling, and corruption by noise, and demonstrate its application on large-scale data from UK Biobank. GeoSPM is readily interpretable, can be implemented with ease by non-specialists, enables flexible modeling of complex spatial relations, exhibits robustness to noise and under-sampling, offers principled criteria of statistical significance, and is through computational efficiency readily scalable to large datasets. We provide a complete, open-source software implementation.9 Authors
- Holger Engleitner
- Ashwani Jha
- Marta Suarez Pinilla
- Amy Nelson
- Daniel Herron
- Geraint Rees
- Karl Friston
- Martin Rossor
- Parashkev Nachev
Enabling scientific discoveries that improve human health