Systematic evaluation of fMRI data-processing pipelines for consistent functional connectomics

Autor: Andrea I. Luppi, Helena M. Gellersen, Zhen-Qi Liu, Alexander R. D. Peattie, Anne E. Manktelow, Ram Adapa, Adrian M. Owen, Lorina Naci, David K. Menon, Stavros I. Dimitriadis, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-24 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48781-5
Popis: Abstract Functional interactions between brain regions can be viewed as a network, enabling neuroscientists to investigate brain function through network science. Here, we systematically evaluate 768 data-processing pipelines for network reconstruction from resting-state functional MRI, evaluating the effect of brain parcellation, connectivity definition, and global signal regression. Our criteria seek pipelines that minimise motion confounds and spurious test-retest discrepancies of network topology, while being sensitive to both inter-subject differences and experimental effects of interest. We reveal vast and systematic variability across pipelines’ suitability for functional connectomics. Inappropriate choice of data-processing pipeline can produce results that are not only misleading, but systematically so, with the majority of pipelines failing at least one criterion. However, a set of optimal pipelines consistently satisfy all criteria across different datasets, spanning minutes, weeks, and months. We provide a full breakdown of each pipeline’s performance across criteria and datasets, to inform future best practices in functional connectomics.
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