The Medical College of Wisconsin is a leading institution in the area of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research with interdisciplinary research involving several departments such as Neurology, Psychiatry, Radiology and Biophysics. From the Division of Biostatistics, Professors Hoffmann, Logan, Rowe and Zhang are conducting collaborative and methodological work in this area.

Dr. Hoffman’s work focuses on developing new methods and validating existing methods for determining connectivity. Dr. Zhang has analyzed fMRI data using covariate adjusted ROC curves, working with Professor Lee of the Biophysics Department. Dr. Logan has compared individual voxel thresholding methods for identifying active voxels in single-subject fMRI datasets. Professors Rowe and Logan have proposed a way to directly model the complex valued fMRI data, rather than just the magnitude data as is typically done in fMRI analysis.

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