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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) maps cerebral activation in response to stimuli but this activation is often difficult to detect, especially in low-signal contexts and single-subject studies. Accurate activation detection can be guided by the fact that very few voxels are, in reality, truly activated and that activated voxels are spatially localized, but it is challenging to incorporate both these facts. We provide a computationally feasible and methodologically sound model-based approach, implemented in the R package MixfMRI, that bounds the a priori expected proportion of activated voxels while also incorporating spatial context. Results on simulation experiments for different levels of activation detection difficulty are uniformly encouraging. The value of the methodology in low-signal and single-subject fMRI studies is illustrated on a sports imagination experiment. Concurrently, we also extend the potential use of fMRI as a clinical tool to, for example, detect awareness and improve treatment in individual patients in persistent vegetative state, such as traumatic brain injury survivors.
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