Multimodal IVA fusion for detection of linked neuroimaging biomarkers

With the increasing availability of large-scale multimodal neuroimaging datasets, it is necessary to develop data fusion methods which can extract cross-modal features. A general framework, multidataset independent subspace analysis (MISA), has been developed to encompass multiple blind source separation approaches and identify linked cross-modal components in multiple datasets. In this work we utilized the multimodal independent vector analysis model in MISA to directly identify meaningful linked features across three neuroimaging modalities \---| structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), resting state functional MRI and diffusion MRI \---| in two large independent datasets, one comprising of healthy subjects and the other including patients with schizophrenia. Results show several linked subject profiles (the sources/components) that capture age-associated reductions, schizophrenia-related biomarkers, sex effects, and cognitive performance. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.