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Training fMRI Classiers to Detect Cognitive States across Multiple Human Subjects Xuerui Wang, Rebecca Hutchinson, and Tom M. Mitchell Center for Automated Learning and Discovery Carnegie Mellon Universit y 5000 Forbes Av enue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 xuerui.wang, rebecca.hutchinson, tom.mitchell @cs.cmu.edu Abstract We consi der lear ning to clas sify cogni tiv e states of human subject s, bas ed on the ir bra in act iv ity obs erved via functi onal Magnetic Res ona nce Imaging (fMRI). This problem is important because such classiers con- stitute “virtual sensors” of hidden cognitive states, which may be useful in cognitive sci ence research and clinical applicati ons. In recent work, Mitchell, et al. [6,7,9] have demonstrated the feasibility of training such classiers for individual human subjects (e.g., to distinguish whether the subject is reading an ambiguous or unambiguous sentence, or whether they are reading a noun or a verb). Here we extend that line of research, exploring how to train classiers that can be applied across multiple hu- man subjects, including subjects who were not involved in training the clas sie r. W e describe the desi gn of severalmachi ne learn ing appro aches to training multiple-subject classiers, and report experimental results demonstrating the success of these methods in learning cross-subject classiers for two different fMRI data sets. 1 Int roduc tio n The advent of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has made it possible to safely , non-invasiv ely observe correlates of neural activity across the entire human brain at high spatial resolution. A typical fMRI session can produce a three dimensional image of brain activation once per second, with a spatial resolution of a few millimeters, yielding tens of millions of individual fMRI observations over the course of a twenty minute ses- sion. This fMRI technology holds the potential to revolut ionize studies of human cogniti ve processing, provided we can develop appropriate data analysis methods. Researchers have now employed fMRI to conduct hundreds of studies that identify which regions of the brain are activated on average when a human performs a particular cognitive task (e.g., reading, puzzle solving). Typical research publications describe summary statis- tics of brain activity in various locations, calculated by averaging together fMRI observa- tions collected over multiple time intervals during which the subject responds to repeated stimuli of a particular type. Our interest here is in a different problem: training classiers to automatically decode the

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