Ultra-high-order ICA: an exploration of highly resolved data-driven representation of intrinsic connectivity networks (sparse ICNs)

Spatial independent component analysis (sICA) has become an integral part of functional MRI (fMRI) studies, particularly with resting-state fMRI. Early work used low-order ICA with between 20 and 45 components, which has led to the identification of around a dozen reproducible, distributed, large-scale brain networks. While regions within each largescale network are fairly temporally coherent, later studies have shown that each distributed...