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This chapter proposes a review of the most prominent issues in analysing brain functional Magnetic Resonance data. It introduces the domain for readers with no or little knowledge in the field. The introduction places the context and orients the reader in the many questions put to the data, and summarizes the currently most commonly applied approach. The second section deals with intra subject data analysis, emphasizing hemodynamic response estimation issues. The third section describes current approaches and advances in analysing group data in a standard coordinate system. The last section proposes new spatial models for group analyses. Overall, the chapter gives a brief overview of the field and details some specific advances that are important for application studies in cognitive neurosciences.
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Poline, J.B., Ciuciu, P., Roche, A., Thirion, B. (2015). Intra and inter subject analyses of brain functional Magnetic Resonance Images (fMRI). In: Paragios, N., Duncan, J., Ayache, N. (eds) Handbook of Biomedical Imaging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09749-7_23
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