A novel and effective fMRI decoding approach based on sliced inverse regression and its application to pain prediction

Dimension reduction is essential in fMRI decoding, but the complex relationship between fMRI data and class labels is often unknown or not well modeled so that the most effective dimension reduction (e.d.r.) directions can hardly be identified. In the present study, we introduce a novel fMRI decoding approach based on an effective and general dimension reduction method, namely sliced inverse regression (SIR), which can exploit class information...