Abstract
Neuroimaging techniques have been widely used in recent decades to assess brain activation patterns for neuroscience. Task design is the most important challenge for neuroimaging studies, to achieve the best modeling for assessing brain patterns within and across subjects. Specifically, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments rely on the precise and effective design of sequences of stimuli intended to activate specific brain regions (i.e. paradigm design). In this paper, we use PDDL+ to model fMRI paradigms so that neuroscientists can use automated planning to design neuroimaging paradigms in a declarative way. Planning neuroimaging paradigms is especially important for functional studies and presurgical planning. The former should help to ensure an experimental design that allows the analysis of the brain regions that are interesting in the study. The latter should help surgeons select the correct stimuli for a presurgical, noninvasive, exploration of the cognitive functions that might be affected by debridement of brain lesions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021) |
Editors | Susanne Biundo, Minh Do, Robert Goldman, Michael Katz, Qiang Yang, Hankz Hankui Zhuo |
Place of Publication | Palo Alto, California |
Publisher | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
Pages | 445-449 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Volume | 31 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781713832317 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 17 May 2021 |
Event | 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2021 - Guangzhou, Virtual, China Duration: 2 Aug 2021 → 13 Aug 2021 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS |
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Number | 1 |
Volume | 31 |
ISSN (Print) | 2334-0835 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2334-0843 |
Conference
Conference | 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2021 |
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Country/Territory | China |
City | Guangzhou, Virtual |
Period | 2/08/21 → 13/08/21 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partially funded by Poatek, in the form of financial student aid for the main author of this research. Felipe Meneguzzi acknowledges support from CNPq with projects 407058/2018-4 (Universal) and 302773/2019-3 (PQ Fellowship).