Accurate autocorrelation modeling substantially improves fMRI reliability

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العنوان: Accurate autocorrelation modeling substantially improves fMRI reliability
المؤلفون: Olszowy, Wiktor, Aston, John, Rua, Catarina, Williams, Guy B.
المصدر: Nature Communications, volume 10, Article number: 1220 (2019)
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Quantitative Biology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantitative Biology - Quantitative Methods
الوصف: Given the recent controversies in some neuroimaging statistical methods, we compare the most frequently used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) analysis packages: AFNI, FSL and SPM, with regard to temporal autocorrelation modeling. This process, sometimes known as pre-whitening, is conducted in virtually all task fMRI studies. We employ eleven datasets containing 980 scans corresponding to different fMRI protocols and subject populations. Though autocorrelation modeling in AFNI is not perfect, its performance is much higher than the performance of autocorrelation modeling in FSL and SPM. The residual autocorrelated noise in FSL and SPM leads to heavily confounded first level results, particularly for low-frequency experimental designs. Our results show superior performance of SPM's alternative pre-whitening: FAST, over SPM's default. The reliability of task fMRI studies would increase with more accurate autocorrelation modeling. Furthermore, reliability could increase if the packages provided diagnostic plots. This way the investigator would be aware of pre-whitening problems.
Comment: compared to the third version, we investigated: (1) the impact of slice timing correction on pre-whitening and (2) the impact of pre-whitening on group results using the mixed effects model 3dMEMA
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09230-w
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09877
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1711.09877
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-09230-w