The effect of apex-finding errors on factor images obtained from factor analysis and oblique transformation.
The use of an oblique transformation to obtain physiological factors from a factor analysis of dynamic studies has recently been suggested. The technique involves using an apex-seeking routine to enable these factors and their contribution images to be formed. This paper investigates the effects of errors in apex-finding on these factor images. In particular it is shown that, apart from scaling, the factor image obtained from a given apex is independent of the position of that apex (and hence is independent of its own factor).
D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D013223:Statistics as Topic