The Influence of Study-Level Inference Models and Study Set Size on Coordinate-Based fMRI Meta-Analyses

Autor: Herve Lemaitre, Simone Kühn, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L.W. Bokde, Ruth Seurinck, Gareth J. Barker, Sabina Millenet, Han Bossier, Beatrijs Moerkerke, Jean-Luc Martinot, Tomáš Paus
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 11 (2018)
Bossier, H, Seurinck, R, Kühn, S, Banaschewski, T, Barker, G J, Bokde, A L W, Martinot, J-L, Lemaitre, H, Paus, T, Millenet, S & Moerkerke, B 2018, ' The Influence of Study-Level Inference Models and Study Set Size on Coordinate-Based fMRI Meta-Analyses ', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 11, pp. 745 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00745
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
ISSN: 1662-453X
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00745/full
Popis: Given the increasing amount of neuroimaging studies, there is a growing need to summarize published results. Coordinate-based meta-analyses use the locations of statistically significant local maxima with possibly the associated effect sizes to aggregate studies. In this paper, we investigate the influence of key characteristics of a coordinate-based meta-analysis on (1) the balance between false and true positives and (2) the activation reliability of the outcome from a coordinate-based meta-analysis. More particularly, we consider the influence of the chosen group level model at the study level [fixed effects, ordinary least squares (OLS), or mixed effects models], the type of coordinate-based meta-analysis [Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) that only uses peak locations, fixed effects, and random effects meta-analysis that take into account both peak location and height] and the amount of studies included in the analysis (from 10 to 35). To do this, we apply a resampling scheme on a large dataset (N = 1,400) to create a test condition and compare this with an independent evaluation condition. The test condition corresponds to subsampling participants into studies and combine these using meta-analyses. The evaluation condition corresponds to a high-powered group analysis. We observe the best performance when using mixed effects models in individual studies combined with a random effects meta-analysis. Moreover the performance increases with the number of studies included in the meta-analysis. When peak height is not taken into consideration, we show that the popular ALE procedure is a good alternative in terms of the balance between type I and II errors. However, it requires more studies compared to other procedures in terms of activation reliability. Finally, we discuss the differences, interpretations, and limitations of our results.
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