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Kristanto D, Burkhardt M, Thiel C, Debener S, Gießing C, Hildebrandt A. The multiverse of data preprocessing and analysis in graph-based fMRI: A systematic literature review of analytical choices fed into a decision support tool for informed analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 165:105846. [PMID: 39117132 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 08/04/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024]
Abstract
The large number of different analytical choices used by researchers is partly responsible for the challenge of replication in neuroimaging studies. For an exhaustive robustness analysis, knowledge of the full space of analytical options is essential. We conducted a systematic literature review to identify the analytical decisions in functional neuroimaging data preprocessing and analysis in the emerging field of cognitive network neuroscience. We found 61 different steps, with 17 of them having debatable parameter choices. Scrubbing, global signal regression, and spatial smoothing are among the controversial steps. There is no standardized order in which different steps are applied, and the parameter settings within several steps vary widely across studies. By aggregating the pipelines across studies, we propose three taxonomic levels to categorize analytical choices: 1) inclusion or exclusion of specific steps, 2) parameter tuning within steps, and 3) distinct sequencing of steps. We have developed a decision support application with high educational value called METEOR to facilitate access to the data in order to design well-informed robustness (multiverse) analysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Kristanto
- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg 26129, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg 26129, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg 26129, Germany; Research Center Neurosensory Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4All", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg 26129, Germany; Research Center Neurosensory Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4All", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg 26129, Germany; Research Center Neurosensory Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg 26129, Germany; Research Center Neurosensory Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4All", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.
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Bi XA, Mao Y, Luo S, Wu H, Zhang L, Luo X, Xu L. A novel generation adversarial network framework with characteristics aggregation and diffusion for brain disease classification and feature selection. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6762742. [PMID: 36259367 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Imaging genetics provides unique insights into the pathological studies of complex brain diseases by integrating the characteristics of multi-level medical data. However, most current imaging genetics research performs incomplete data fusion. Also, there is a lack of effective deep learning methods to analyze neuroimaging and genetic data jointly. Therefore, this paper first constructs the brain region-gene networks to intuitively represent the association pattern of pathogenetic factors. Second, a novel feature information aggregation model is constructed to accurately describe the information aggregation process among brain region nodes and gene nodes. Finally, a deep learning method called feature information aggregation and diffusion generative adversarial network (FIAD-GAN) is proposed to efficiently classify samples and select features. We focus on improving the generator with the proposed convolution and deconvolution operations, with which the interpretability of the deep learning framework has been dramatically improved. The experimental results indicate that FIAD-GAN can not only achieve superior results in various disease classification tasks but also extract brain regions and genes closely related to AD. This work provides a novel method for intelligent clinical decisions. The relevant biomedical discoveries provide a reliable reference and technical basis for the clinical diagnosis, treatment and pathological analysis of disease.
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- Xia-An Bi
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, and College of Information Science and Engineering in Hunan Normal University, Changsha, P.R. China
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- Department of Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, P.R. China
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- College of Information Science and Engineering in Hunan Normal University, Changsha, P.R. China
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- College of Business in Hunan Normal University, Changsha, P.R. China
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Wang Y, Fu Y, Luo X. Identification of Pathogenetic Brain Regions via Neuroimaging Data for Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:900330. [PMID: 35655751 PMCID: PMC9152096 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.900330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a kind of neurodevelopmental disorder that often occurs in children and has a hidden onset. Patients usually have lagged development of communication ability and social behavior and thus suffer an unhealthy physical and mental state. Evidence has indicated that diseases related to ASD have commonalities in brain imaging characteristics. This study aims to study the pathogenesis of ASD based on brain imaging data to locate the ASD-related brain regions. Specifically, we collected the functional magnetic resonance image data of 479 patients with ASD and 478 normal subjects matched in age and gender and used a machine-learning framework named random support vector machine cluster to extract distinctive brain regions from the preprocessed data. According to the experimental results, compared with other existing approaches, the method used in this study can more accurately distinguish patients from normal individuals based on brain imaging data. At the same time, this study found that the development of ASD was highly correlated with certain brain regions, e.g., lingual gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, medial gyrus, insular lobe, and olfactory cortex. This study explores the effectiveness of a novel machine-learning approach in the study of ASD brain imaging and provides a reference brain area for the medical research and clinical treatment of ASD.
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- Yu Wang
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- Hunan Xiangjiang Artificial Intelligence Academy, Changsha, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- Hunan Xiangjiang Artificial Intelligence Academy, Changsha, China
- *Correspondence: Yu Fu
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- Hunan Xiangjiang Artificial Intelligence Academy, Changsha, China
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Abnormal degree centrality as a potential imaging biomarker for right temporal lobe epilepsy: A resting-state fMRI study and support vector machine analysis. Neuroscience 2022; 487:198-206. [PMID: 35158018 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Liu L, Fan J, Zhan H, Huang J, Cao R, Xiang X, Tian S, Ren H, Tong M, Li Q. Abnormal regional signal in the left cerebellum as a potential neuroimaging biomarker of sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:967391. [PMID: 35935421 PMCID: PMC9354585 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.967391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE While prior reports have characterized visible changes in neuroimaging findings in individuals suffering from sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), the utility of regional homogeneity (ReHo) as a means of diagnosing SSNHL has yet to be established. The present study was thus conducted to assess ReHo abnormalities in SSNHL patients and to establish whether these abnormalities offer value as a diagnostic neuroimaging biomarker of SSNHL through a support vector machine (SVM) analysis approach. METHODS Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) analyses of 27 SSNHL patients and 27 normal controls were conducted, with the resultant imaging data then being analyzed based on a combination of ReHo and SVM approaches. RESULTS Relative to normal control individuals, patients diagnosed with SSNHL exhibited significant reductions in ReHo values in the left cerebellum, bilateral inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), left superior temporal pole (STP), right parahippocampal gyrus (PHG), left posterior cingulum cortex (PCC), and right superior frontal gyrus (SFG). SVM analyses suggested that reduced ReHo values in the left cerebellum were associated with high levels of diagnostic accuracy (96.30%, 52/54), sensitivity (92.59%, 25/27), and specificity (100.00%, 27/27) when distinguishing between SSNHL patients and control individuals. CONCLUSION These data suggest that SSNHL patients exhibit abnormal resting-state neurological activity, with changes in the ReHo of the left cerebellum offering value as a diagnostic neuroimaging biomarker associated with this condition.
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- Lei Liu
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Stomatology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Chu Y, Wu J, Wang D, Huang J, Li W, Zhang S, Ren H. Altered voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity in right temporal lobe epilepsy as measured using resting-state fMRI and support vector machine analyses. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:958294. [PMID: 35958657 PMCID: PMC9360423 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.958294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Prior reports revealed abnormalities in voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) when analyzing neuroimaging data from patients with various psychiatric conditions, including temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Whether these VHMC changes can be leveraged to aid in the diagnosis of right TLE (rTLE), however, remains to be established. This study was thus developed to examine abnormal VMHC findings associated with rTLE to determine whether these changes can be used to guide rTLE diagnosis. METHODS The resultant imaging data of resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) analyses of 59 patients with rTLE and 60 normal control individuals were analyzed using VMHC and support vector machine (SVM) approaches. RESULTS Relative to normal controls, patients with rTLE were found to exhibit decreased VMHC values in the bilateral superior and the middle temporal pole (STP and MTP), the bilateral middle and inferior temporal gyri (MTG and ITG), and the bilateral orbital portion of the inferior frontal gyrus (OrbIFG). These patients further exhibited increases in VMHC values in the bilateral precentral gyrus (PreCG), the postcentral gyrus (PoCG), and the supplemental motor area (SMA). The ROC curve of MTG VMHC values showed a great diagnostic efficacy in the diagnosis of rTLE with AUCs, sensitivity, specificity, and optimum cutoff values of 0.819, 0.831, 0.717, and 0.465. These findings highlight the value of the right middle temporal gyrus (rMTG) when differentiating between rTLE and control individuals, with a corresponding SVM analysis yielding respective accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity values of 70.59% (84/119), 78.33% (47/60), and 69.49% (41/59). CONCLUSION In summary, patients with rTLE exhibit various forms of abnormal functional connectivity, and SVM analyses support the potential value of abnormal VMHC values as a neuroimaging biomarker that can aid in the diagnosis of this condition.
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- Yongqiang Chu
- Department of Imaging Center, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.,Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazards and Identification, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Imaging Center, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Imaging Center, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wuhan Asia General Hospital, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Liyuan Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Imaging Center, Tianyou Hospital, Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Wei Q, Cao S, Ji Y, Zhang J, Chen C, Wang X, Tian Y, Qiu B, Wang K. Altered Functional Connectivity Patterns of Parietal Subregions Contribute to Cognitive Dysfunction in Patients with White Matter Hyperintensities. J Alzheimers Dis 2021; 84:659-669. [PMID: 34569947 DOI: 10.3233/jad-210315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are considered as one of the core neuroimaging findings of cerebral small vessel disease and independently associated with cognitive deficit. The parietal lobe is a heterogeneous area containing many subregions and play an important role in the processes of neurocognition. OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between parietal subregions alterations and cognitive impairments in WHMs. METHODS Resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) analyses of parietal subregions were performed in 104 right-handed WMHs patients divided into mild (n = 39), moderate (n = 37), and severe WMHs (n = 28) groups according to the Fazekas scale and 36 healthy controls. Parietal subregions were defined using tractographic Human Brainnetome Atlas and included five subregions for superior parietal lobe, six subregions for inferior parietal lobe (IPL), and three subregions for precuneus. All participants underwent a neuropsychological test battery to evaluate emotional and general cognitive functions. RESULTS Differences existed between the rs-FC strength of IPL_R_6_2 with the left anterior cingulate gyrus, IPL_R_6_3 with the right dorsolateral superior frontal gyrus, and the IPL_R_6_5 with the left anterior cingulate gyrus. The connectivity strength between IPL_R_6_3 and the left anterior cingulate gyrus were correlated with AVLT-immediate and AVLT-recognition test in WMHs. CONCLUSION We explored the roles of parietal subregions in WMHs using rs-FC. The functional connectivity of parietal subregions with the cortex regions showed significant differences between the patients with WMHs and healthy controls which may be associated with cognitive deficits in WMHs.
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- Qiang Wei
- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,The College of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Lab for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and the Centers for Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,The College of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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