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Reinke A, Tizabi MD, Baumgartner M, Eisenmann M, Heckmann-Nötzel D, Kavur AE, Rädsch T, Sudre CH, Acion L, Antonelli M, Arbel T, Bakas S, Benis A, Buettner F, Cardoso MJ, Cheplygina V, Chen J, Christodoulou E, Cimini BA, Farahani K, Ferrer L, Galdran A, van Ginneken B, Glocker B, Godau P, Hashimoto DA, Hoffman MM, Huisman M, Isensee F, Jannin P, Kahn CE, Kainmueller D, Kainz B, Karargyris A, Kleesiek J, Kofler F, Kooi T, Kopp-Schneider A, Kozubek M, Kreshuk A, Kurc T, Landman BA, Litjens G, Madani A, Maier-Hein K, Martel AL, Meijering E, Menze B, Moons KGM, Müller H, Nichyporuk B, Nickel F, Petersen J, Rafelski SM, Rajpoot N, Reyes M, Riegler MA, Rieke N, Saez-Rodriguez J, Sánchez CI, Shetty S, Summers RM, Taha AA, Tiulpin A, Tsaftaris SA, Van Calster B, Varoquaux G, Yaniv ZR, Jäger PF, Maier-Hein L. Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation. Nat Methods 2024; 21:182-194. [PMID: 38347140 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02150-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
Abstract
Validation metrics are key for tracking scientific progress and bridging the current chasm between artificial intelligence research and its translation into practice. However, increasing evidence shows that, particularly in image analysis, metrics are often chosen inadequately. Although taking into account the individual strengths, weaknesses and limitations of validation metrics is a critical prerequisite to making educated choices, the relevant knowledge is currently scattered and poorly accessible to individual researchers. Based on a multistage Delphi process conducted by a multidisciplinary expert consortium as well as extensive community feedback, the present work provides a reliable and comprehensive common point of access to information on pitfalls related to validation metrics in image analysis. Although focused on biomedical image analysis, the addressed pitfalls generalize across application domains and are categorized according to a newly created, domain-agnostic taxonomy. The work serves to enhance global comprehension of a key topic in image analysis validation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Annika Reinke
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany.
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany.
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Applied Computer Vision Lab, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL and Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK
- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, King's College London, London, UK
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- Instituto de Cálculo, CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, King's College London, London, UK
- Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Intelligent Machines and MILA (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Computational Pathology, Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Digital Medical Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
- European Federation for Medical Informatics, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Frankfurt/Mainz, a partnership between DKFZ and UCT Frankfurt-Marburg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Medicine, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Informatics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Cancer Insititute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V., Dortmund, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Computación (ICC), CONICET-UBA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- General Robotics Automation Sensing and Perception Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Applied Computer Vision Lab, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image - UMR_S 1099, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
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- Department of Radiology and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Biomedical Image Analysis and HI Helmholtz Imaging, Berlin, Germany
- University of Potsdam, Digital Engineering Faculty, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department AIBE, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU), Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Translational Image-guided Oncology (TIO), Institute for AI in Medicine (IKIM), University Medicine Essen, Essen, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Biostatistics, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis and Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Health Science Center, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, University Health Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
- Pattern Analysis and Learning Group, Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Information Systems Institute, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland
- Medical Faculty, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- MILA (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Tissue Image Analytics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Oslo, Norway
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute of Information Systems Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Neurocenter Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Development and Regeneration and EPI-centre, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Parietal project team, INRIA Saclay-Île de France, Palaiseau, France
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany.
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Interactive Machine Learning Group, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany.
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Maier-Hein L, Reinke A, Godau P, Tizabi MD, Buettner F, Christodoulou E, Glocker B, Isensee F, Kleesiek J, Kozubek M, Reyes M, Riegler MA, Wiesenfarth M, Kavur AE, Sudre CH, Baumgartner M, Eisenmann M, Heckmann-Nötzel D, Rädsch T, Acion L, Antonelli M, Arbel T, Bakas S, Benis A, Blaschko MB, Cardoso MJ, Cheplygina V, Cimini BA, Collins GS, Farahani K, Ferrer L, Galdran A, van Ginneken B, Haase R, Hashimoto DA, Hoffman MM, Huisman M, Jannin P, Kahn CE, Kainmueller D, Kainz B, Karargyris A, Karthikesalingam A, Kofler F, Kopp-Schneider A, Kreshuk A, Kurc T, Landman BA, Litjens G, Madani A, Maier-Hein K, Martel AL, Mattson P, Meijering E, Menze B, Moons KGM, Müller H, Nichyporuk B, Nickel F, Petersen J, Rajpoot N, Rieke N, Saez-Rodriguez J, Sánchez CI, Shetty S, van Smeden M, Summers RM, Taha AA, Tiulpin A, Tsaftaris SA, Van Calster B, Varoquaux G, Jäger PF. Metrics reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation. Nat Methods 2024; 21:195-212. [PMID: 38347141 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02151-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
Abstract
Increasing evidence shows that flaws in machine learning (ML) algorithm validation are an underestimated global problem. In biomedical image analysis, chosen performance metrics often do not reflect the domain interest, and thus fail to adequately measure scientific progress and hinder translation of ML techniques into practice. To overcome this, we created Metrics Reloaded, a comprehensive framework guiding researchers in the problem-aware selection of metrics. Developed by a large international consortium in a multistage Delphi process, it is based on the novel concept of a problem fingerprint-a structured representation of the given problem that captures all aspects that are relevant for metric selection, from the domain interest to the properties of the target structure(s), dataset and algorithm output. On the basis of the problem fingerprint, users are guided through the process of choosing and applying appropriate validation metrics while being made aware of potential pitfalls. Metrics Reloaded targets image analysis problems that can be interpreted as classification tasks at image, object or pixel level, namely image-level classification, object detection, semantic segmentation and instance segmentation tasks. To improve the user experience, we implemented the framework in the Metrics Reloaded online tool. Following the convergence of ML methodology across application domains, Metrics Reloaded fosters the convergence of validation methodology. Its applicability is demonstrated for various biomedical use cases.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lena Maier-Hein
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany.
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany.
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Frankfurt/Mainz, a partnership between DKFZ and UCT Frankfurt-Marburg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Department of Informatics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Cancer Insititute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Applied Computer Vision Lab, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for AI in Medicine, University Medicine Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis and Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Computer Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Biostatistics, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Applied Computer Vision Lab, Heidelberg, Germany
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL and Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK
- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, King's College London, London, UK
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT Heidelberg, a partnership between DKFZ and University Medical Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Intelligent Medical Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Instituto de Cálculo, CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, King's College London, London, UK
- Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Intelligent Machines and MILA (Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Computational Pathology, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, IU Health Information and Translational Sciences Building, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Digital Medical Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
- European Federation for Medical Informatics, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Processing Speech and Images, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK
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- Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Computación (ICC), CONICET-UBA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- BCN Medtech, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Australian Institute for Machine Learning AIML, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Technische Universität (TU) Dresden, DFG Cluster of Excellence 'Physics of Life', Dresden, Germany
- Center for Systems Biology, Dresden, Germany
- Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- General Robotics Automation Sensing and Perception Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image - UMR_S 1099, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
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- Department of Radiology and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Biomedical Image Analysis and HI Helmholtz Imaging, Berlin, Germany
- Digital Engineering Faculty, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department AIBE, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU), Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Biostatistics, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Health Science Center, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, University Health Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
- Pattern Analysis and Learning Group, Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA, USA
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Information Systems Institute, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland
- Medical Faculty, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- MILA (Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Image Computing, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Tissue Image Analytics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute of Information Systems Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Neurocenter Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Development and Regeneration and EPI-centre, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Parietal project team, INRIA Saclay-Île de France, Palaiseau, France
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, HI Helmholtz Imaging, Heidelberg, Germany.
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Interactive Machine Learning Group, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Cvetkov-Iliev A, Allauzen A, Varoquaux G. Relational data embeddings for feature enrichment with background information. Mach Learn 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10994-022-06277-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Kobeleva X, Varoquaux G, Dagher A, Adhikari M, Grefkes C, Gilson M. Advancing brain network models to reconcile functional neuroimaging and clinical research. Neuroimage Clin 2022; 36:103262. [PMID: 36451365 PMCID: PMC9723311 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) captures information on brain function beyond the anatomical alterations that are traditionally visually examined by neuroradiologists. However, the fMRI signals are complex in addition to being noisy, so fMRI still faces limitations for clinical applications. Here we review methods that have been proposed as potential solutions so far, namely statistical, biophysical and decoding models, with their strengths and weaknesses. We especially evaluate the ability of these models to directly predict clinical variables from their parameters (predictability) and to extract clinically relevant information regarding biological mechanisms and relevant features for classification and prediction (interpretability). We then provide guidelines for useful applications and pitfalls of such fMRI-based models in a clinical research context, looking beyond the current state of the art. In particular, we argue that the clinical relevance of fMRI calls for a new generation of models for fMRI data, which combine the strengths of both biophysical and decoding models. This leads to reliable and biologically meaningful model parameters, which thus fulfills the need for simultaneous interpretability and predictability. In our view, this synergy is fundamental for the discovery of new pharmacological and interventional targets, as well as the use of models as biomarkers in neurology and psychiatry.
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- Xenia Kobeleva
- Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
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- Bio-imaging Lab, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1, INM-3), Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany; Department of Neurology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Information and Telecommunication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
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Vieira BH, Liem F, Dadi K, Engemann DA, Gramfort A, Bellec P, Craddock RC, Damoiseaux JS, Steele CJ, Yarkoni T, Langer N, Margulies DS, Varoquaux G. Predicting future cognitive decline from non-brain and multimodal brain imaging data in healthy and pathological aging. Neurobiol Aging 2022; 118:55-65. [PMID: 35878565 PMCID: PMC9853405 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Abstract
Previous literature has focused on predicting a diagnostic label from structural brain imaging. Since subtle changes in the brain precede a cognitive decline in healthy and pathological aging, our study predicts future decline as a continuous trajectory instead. Here, we tested whether baseline multimodal neuroimaging data improve the prediction of future cognitive decline in healthy and pathological aging. Nonbrain data (demographics, clinical, and neuropsychological scores), structural MRI, and functional connectivity data from OASIS-3 (N = 662; age = 46-96 years) were entered into cross-validated multitarget random forest models to predict future cognitive decline (measured by CDR and MMSE), on average 5.8 years into the future. The analysis was preregistered, and all analysis code is publicly available. Combining non-brain with structural data improved the continuous prediction of future cognitive decline (best test-set performance: R2 = 0.42). Cognitive performance, daily functioning, and subcortical volume drove the performance of our model. Including functional connectivity did not improve predictive accuracy. In the future, the prognosis of age-related cognitive decline may enable earlier and more effective individualized cognitive, pharmacological, and behavioral interventions.
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- Bruno Hebling Vieira
- Methods of Plasticity Research, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ), University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,Corresponding author. (B. Hebling Vieira)
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- University Research Priority Program “Dynamics of Healthy Aging”, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- UniversitéParis-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau, France,Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Geriatric Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Gerontology and the Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Methods of Plasticity Research, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ), University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,University Research Priority Program “Dynamics of Healthy Aging”, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Cognitive Neuroanatomy Lab, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France
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Liu Y, Varoquaux G. Understanding Brain Network Dynamics in Autism Begs for Generalization. Biol Psychiatry 2022; 91:916-917. [PMID: 35589311 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Yong Liu
- School of Artificial Intelligence and the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China.
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Perez-Lebel A, Varoquaux G, Le Morvan M, Josse J, Poline JB. Benchmarking missing-values approaches for predictive models on health databases. Gigascience 2022; 11:6568998. [PMID: 35426912 PMCID: PMC9012100 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giac013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
As databases grow larger, it becomes harder to fully control their collection, and they frequently come with missing values. These large databases are well suited to train machine learning models, e.g., for forecasting or to extract biomarkers in biomedical settings. Such predictive approaches can use discriminative—rather than generative—modeling and thus open the door to new missing-values strategies. Yet existing empirical evaluations of strategies to handle missing values have focused on inferential statistics.
Results
Here we conduct a systematic benchmark of missing-values strategies in predictive models with a focus on large health databases: 4 electronic health record datasets, 1 population brain imaging database, 1 health survey, and 2 intensive care surveys. Using gradient-boosted trees, we compare native support for missing values with simple and state-of-the-art imputation prior to learning. We investigate prediction accuracy and computational time. For prediction after imputation, we find that adding an indicator to express which values have been imputed is important, suggesting that the data are missing not at random. Elaborate missing-values imputation can improve prediction compared to simple strategies but requires longer computational time on large data. Learning trees that model missing values—with missing incorporated attribute—leads to robust, fast, and well-performing predictive modeling.
Conclusions
Native support for missing values in supervised machine learning predicts better than state-of-the-art imputation with much less computational cost. When using imputation, it is important to add indicator columns expressing which values have been imputed.
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- Alexandre Perez-Lebel
- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, 3801 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
- Inria Saclay – Île-de-France, Parietal team, 1 Rue Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, 6666 Saint-Urbain Street, Montréal, QC H2S 3H1, Canada
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, 3801 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
- Inria Saclay – Île-de-France, Parietal team, 1 Rue Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, 6666 Saint-Urbain Street, Montréal, QC H2S 3H1, Canada
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- Inria Saclay – Île-de-France, Parietal team, 1 Rue Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Inria Montpellier, Bâtiment 5, 860 Rue de St-Priest, 34090 Montpellier, France
- IDESP Institut Desbrest d’Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Campus Santé, IURC, 641 avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34090 Montpellier, France
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, 3801 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
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Varoquaux G, Cheplygina V. Machine learning for medical imaging: methodological failures and recommendations for the future. NPJ Digit Med 2022; 5:48. [PMID: 35413988 PMCID: PMC9005663 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-022-00592-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Research in computer analysis of medical images bears many promises to improve patients' health. However, a number of systematic challenges are slowing down the progress of the field, from limitations of the data, such as biases, to research incentives, such as optimizing for publication. In this paper we review roadblocks to developing and assessing methods. Building our analysis on evidence from the literature and data challenges, we show that at every step, potential biases can creep in. On a positive note, we also discuss on-going efforts to counteract these problems. Finally we provide recommendations on how to further address these problems in the future.
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- Gaël Varoquaux
- INRIA, Versailles, France.
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
- Mila, Montreal, Canada.
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Traut N, Heuer K, Lemaître G, Beggiato A, Germanaud D, Elmaleh M, Bethegnies A, Bonnasse-Gahot L, Cai W, Chambon S, Cliquet F, Ghriss A, Guigui N, de Pierrefeu A, Wang M, Zantedeschi V, Boucaud A, van den Bossche J, Kegl B, Delorme R, Bourgeron T, Toro R, Varoquaux G. Insights from an autism imaging biomarker challenge: Promises and threats to biomarker discovery. Neuroimage 2022; 255:119171. [PMID: 35413445 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
MRI has been extensively used to identify anatomical and functional differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Yet, many of these findings have proven difficult to replicate because studies rely on small cohorts and are built on many complex, undisclosed, analytic choices. We conducted an international challenge to predict ASD diagnosis from MRI data, where we provided preprocessed anatomical and functional MRI data from > 2,000 individuals. Evaluation of the predictions was rigorously blinded. 146 challengers submitted prediction algorithms, which were evaluated at the end of the challenge using unseen data and an additional acquisition site. On the best algorithms, we studied the importance of MRI modalities, brain regions, and sample size. We found evidence that MRI could predict ASD diagnosis: the 10 best algorithms reliably predicted diagnosis with AUC∼0.80 - far superior to what can be currently obtained using genotyping data in cohorts 20-times larger. We observed that functional MRI was more important for prediction than anatomical MRI, and that increasing sample size steadily increased prediction accuracy, providing an efficient strategy to improve biomarkers. We also observed that despite a strong incentive to generalise to unseen data, model development on a given dataset faces the risk of overfitting: performing well in cross-validation on the data at hand, but not generalising. Finally, we were able to predict ASD diagnosis on an external sample added after the end of the challenge (EU-AIMS), although with a lower prediction accuracy (AUC=0.72). This indicates that despite being based on a large multisite cohort, our challenge still produced biomarkers fragile in the face of dataset shifts.
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- Nicolas Traut
- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Département de neuroscience, F-75015 Paris, France; Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Département de neuroscience, F-75015 Paris, France; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France; Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science, Université Paris Saclay, Saclay, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Département de neuroscience, F-75015 Paris, France; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Robert Debré, APHP, Paris, France
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, US
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Département de neuroscience, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Brainnetome Center and National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Univ Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne, CNRS, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR 5516, F-42023, Saint-Etienne, France
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- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France; Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science, Université Paris Saclay, Saclay, France
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- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France; Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science, Université Paris Saclay, Saclay, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Département de neuroscience, F-75015 Paris, France; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Robert Debré, APHP, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Département de neuroscience, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Département de neuroscience, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France; Soda, Inria, Saclay, France.
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Chyzhyk D, Varoquaux G, Milham M, Thirion B. How to remove or control confounds in predictive models, with applications to brain biomarkers. Gigascience 2022; 11:giac014. [PMID: 35277962 PMCID: PMC8917515 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giac014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2021] [Revised: 09/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND With increasing data sizes and more easily available computational methods, neurosciences rely more and more on predictive modeling with machine learning, e.g., to extract disease biomarkers. Yet, a successful prediction may capture a confounding effect correlated with the outcome instead of brain features specific to the outcome of interest. For instance, because patients tend to move more in the scanner than controls, imaging biomarkers of a disease condition may mostly reflect head motion, leading to inefficient use of resources and wrong interpretation of the biomarkers. RESULTS Here we study how to adapt statistical methods that control for confounds to predictive modeling settings. We review how to train predictors that are not driven by such spurious effects. We also show how to measure the unbiased predictive accuracy of these biomarkers, based on a confounded dataset. For this purpose, cross-validation must be modified to account for the nuisance effect. To guide understanding and practical recommendations, we apply various strategies to assess predictive models in the presence of confounds on simulated data and population brain imaging settings. Theoretical and empirical studies show that deconfounding should not be applied to the train and test data jointly: modeling the effect of confounds, on the training data only, should instead be decoupled from removing confounds. CONCLUSIONS Cross-validation that isolates nuisance effects gives an additional piece of information: confound-free prediction accuracy.
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- Darya Chyzhyk
- Parietal project-team, INRIA Saclay-île de France, France
- CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY 10022, USA
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA Saclay-île de France, France
- CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY 10022, USA
- Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA Saclay-île de France, France
- CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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Kiar G, Chatelain Y, de Oliveira Castro P, Petit E, Rokem A, Varoquaux G, Misic B, Evans AC, Glatard T. Numerical uncertainty in analytical pipelines lead to impactful variability in brain networks. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250755. [PMID: 34724000 PMCID: PMC8559953 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The analysis of brain-imaging data requires complex processing pipelines to support findings on brain function or pathologies. Recent work has shown that variability in analytical decisions, small amounts of noise, or computational environments can lead to substantial differences in the results, endangering the trust in conclusions. We explored the instability of results by instrumenting a structural connectome estimation pipeline with Monte Carlo Arithmetic to introduce random noise throughout. We evaluated the reliability of the connectomes, the robustness of their features, and the eventual impact on analysis. The stability of results was found to range from perfectly stable (i.e. all digits of data significant) to highly unstable (i.e. 0 - 1 significant digits). This paper highlights the potential of leveraging induced variance in estimates of brain connectivity to reduce the bias in networks without compromising reliability, alongside increasing the robustness and potential upper-bound of their applications in the classification of individual differences. We demonstrate that stability evaluations are necessary for understanding error inherent to brain imaging experiments, and how numerical analysis can be applied to typical analytical workflows both in brain imaging and other domains of computational sciences, as the techniques used were data and context agnostic and globally relevant. Overall, while the extreme variability in results due to analytical instabilities could severely hamper our understanding of brain organization, it also affords us the opportunity to increase the robustness of findings.
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- Gregory Kiar
- Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Exascale Computing Lab, Intel, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychology and eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Parietal Project-team, INRIA Saclay-ile de France, Paris, France
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- Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Dadi K, Varoquaux G, Houenou J, Bzdok D, Thirion B, Engemann D. Population modeling with machine learning can enhance measures of mental health. Gigascience 2021; 10:giab071. [PMID: 34651172 PMCID: PMC8559220 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giab071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Revised: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Biological aging is revealed by physical measures, e.g., DNA probes or brain scans. In contrast, individual differences in mental function are explained by psychological constructs, e.g., intelligence or neuroticism. These constructs are typically assessed by tailored neuropsychological tests that build on expert judgement and require careful interpretation. Could machine learning on large samples from the general population be used to build proxy measures of these constructs that do not require human intervention? RESULTS Here, we built proxy measures by applying machine learning on multimodal MR images and rich sociodemographic information from the largest biomedical cohort to date: the UK Biobank. Objective model comparisons revealed that all proxies captured the target constructs and were as useful, and sometimes more useful, than the original measures for characterizing real-world health behavior (sleep, exercise, tobacco, alcohol consumption). We observed this complementarity of proxy measures and original measures at capturing multiple health-related constructs when modeling from, both, brain signals and sociodemographic data. CONCLUSION Population modeling with machine learning can derive measures of mental health from heterogeneous inputs including brain signals and questionnaire data. This may complement or even substitute for psychometric assessments in clinical populations.
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- Kamalaker Dadi
- Inria, CEA, Neurospin, Parietal team, Université Paris
Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Inria, CEA, Neurospin, Parietal team, Université Paris
Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal,
QC, Canada
- Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montreal,
QC, Canada
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- CEA, NeuroSpin, Psychiatry Team, UNIACT Lab, Université Paris
Saclay, France
- APHP, Mondor University Hospitals, Psychiatry Department,
INSERM U955 Team 15 “Translational Psychiatry,” Créteil, France
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- Inria, CEA, Neurospin, Parietal team, Université Paris
Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montreal,
QC, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Montreal Neurological Institute,
Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Inria, CEA, Neurospin, Parietal team, Université Paris
Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Inria, CEA, Neurospin, Parietal team, Université Paris
Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, Germany
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Abstract
Machine learning brings the hope of finding new biomarkers extracted from cohorts with rich biomedical measurements. A good biomarker is one that gives reliable detection of the corresponding condition. However, biomarkers are often extracted from a cohort that differs from the target population. Such a mismatch, known as a dataset shift, can undermine the application of the biomarker to new individuals. Dataset shifts are frequent in biomedical research, e.g., because of recruitment biases. When a dataset shift occurs, standard machine-learning techniques do not suffice to extract and validate biomarkers. This article provides an overview of when and how dataset shifts break machine-learning-extracted biomarkers, as well as detection and correction strategies.
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- Jérôme Dockès
- McGill University, 845 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada
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- McGill University, 845 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada
- INRIA
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Levitis E, van Praag CDG, Gau R, Heunis S, DuPre E, Kiar G, Bottenhorn KL, Glatard T, Nikolaidis A, Whitaker KJ, Mancini M, Niso G, Afyouni S, Alonso-Ortiz E, Appelhoff S, Arnatkeviciute A, Atay SM, Auer T, Baracchini G, Bayer JMM, Beauvais MJS, Bijsterbosch JD, Bilgin IP, Bollmann S, Bollmann S, Botvinik-Nezer R, Bright MG, Calhoun VD, Chen X, Chopra S, Chuan-Peng H, Close TG, Cookson SL, Craddock RC, De La Vega A, De Leener B, Demeter DV, Di Maio P, Dickie EW, Eickhoff SB, Esteban O, Finc K, Frigo M, Ganesan S, Ganz M, Garner KG, Garza-Villarreal EA, Gonzalez-Escamilla G, Goswami R, Griffiths JD, Grootswagers T, Guay S, Guest O, Handwerker DA, Herholz P, Heuer K, Huijser DC, Iacovella V, Joseph MJE, Karakuzu A, Keator DB, Kobeleva X, Kumar M, Laird AR, Larson-Prior LJ, Lautarescu A, Lazari A, Legarreta JH, Li XY, Lv J, Mansour L S, Meunier D, Moraczewski D, Nandi T, Nastase SA, Nau M, Noble S, Norgaard M, Obungoloch J, Oostenveld R, Orchard ER, Pinho AL, Poldrack RA, Qiu A, Raamana PR, Rokem A, Rutherford S, Sharan M, Shaw TB, Syeda WT, Testerman MM, Toro R, Valk SL, Van Den Bossche S, Varoquaux G, Váša F, Veldsman M, Vohryzek J, Wagner AS, Walsh RJ, White T, Wong FT, Xie X, Yan CG, Yang YF, Yee Y, Zanitti GE, Van Gulick AE, Duff E, Maumet C. Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences-An OHBM-Open Science perspective. Gigascience 2021; 10:6355274. [PMID: 34414422 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giab051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
As the global health crisis unfolded, many academic conferences moved online in 2020. This move has been hailed as a positive step towards inclusivity in its attenuation of economic, physical, and legal barriers and effectively enabled many individuals from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented to join and participate. A number of studies have outlined how moving online made it possible to gather a more global community and has increased opportunities for individuals with various constraints, e.g., caregiving responsibilities. Yet, the mere existence of online conferences is no guarantee that everyone can attend and participate meaningfully. In fact, many elements of an online conference are still significant barriers to truly diverse participation: the tools used can be inaccessible for some individuals; the scheduling choices can favour some geographical locations; the set-up of the conference can provide more visibility to well-established researchers and reduce opportunities for early-career researchers. While acknowledging the benefits of an online setting, especially for individuals who have traditionally been underrepresented or excluded, we recognize that fostering social justice requires inclusivity to actively be centered in every aspect of online conference design. Here, we draw from the literature and from our own experiences to identify practices that purposefully encourage a diverse community to attend, participate in, and lead online conferences. Reflecting on how to design more inclusive online events is especially important as multiple scientific organizations have announced that they will continue offering an online version of their event when in-person conferences can resume.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth Levitis
- Section on Developmental Neurogenomics, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.,Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
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- Institute of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve 1348, Belgium
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AP, The Netherlands
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- NeuroDataScience - ORIGAMI laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.,Center for the Developing Brain, The Child Mind Institute, New York City, NY 10022, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
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- Center for the Developing Brain, The Child Mind Institute, New York City, NY 10022, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RR, UK.,Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ, UK.,NeuroPoly Lab, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Departement of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.,ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and CIBER-BBN, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK.,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EB, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, VIC, Clayton 3168, Australia
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- Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
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- School of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.,Montréal Neurological Institute, Montréal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.,Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, VIC, 3052, Royal Park, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cybernetics, The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK
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- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.,ARC Training Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.,Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, 100101, Beijing, China.,Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China.,International Big-Data Center for Depression Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Beijing, China
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- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, VIC, Clayton 3168, Australia
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- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210024, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.,National Imaging Facility, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.,Research Centre, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Center for Systems, Knowledge Representation and Neuroscience, Edinburgh and Taipei, UK and Taiwan.,Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE)
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- Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1003, Switzerland
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- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń 87-100, Poland
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- Athena Project Team, Université Côte D'Azur, Inria, 06103 Nice, France
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark.,Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.,School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.,School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Imagenología por Resonancia Magnética, Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus Juriquilla, Querétaro, Qro 76230, Mexico
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- Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Rhine Main Neuroscience Network (rmn2), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55131, Germany
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- Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland.,Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada.,Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada
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- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney 2751, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6525 EN, Netherlands
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- Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-9663, USA
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- NeuroDataScience - ORIGAMI laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), INSERM U1284, Université de Paris, 75004 Paris, France.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3062, the Netherlands.,Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden 2333, the Netherlands
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto 38068, Italy
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
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- NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada.,Montréal Heart Institute, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, H1T 1C8, Canada
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- Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany.,Clinical Research, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.,Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, USA.,Department of Neurology, Pediatrics, Neuroscience & Developmental Sciences, Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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- Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health, Centre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.,Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing101408, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China.,CFIN and PET Center, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- School of Biomedical Engineering & Brain and Mind Center, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, INT, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, 13005 Marseille, France
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Section on Learning and Plasticity, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-9663, USA.,Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
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- Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305Ci, USA.,Neurobiology Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara City, Uganda
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6500 GL, The Netherlands.,NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, VIC, Clayton 3168, Australia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The N.1 Institute for Health, Smart Systems Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Psychology & eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen 6525 EN, The Netherlands.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
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- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), INSERM U1284, Université de Paris, 75004 Paris, France.,Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich 52425, Germany.,Otto Hahn Group Cognitive Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04303, Germany
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- Department of Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, 91120 Palaiseau, France.,Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London SE5 8AF, London, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6GG, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK.,Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro-, and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam,1081BT, The Netherlands.,Center for Applied Transgender Studies , Chicago, USA
| | - Tonya White
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, 3000CB, The Netherlands.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000CB, The Netherlands
| | - Fu-Te Wong
- Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
| | - Xihe Xie
- Department of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Graduate School, New York City, NY 10065, USA
| | - Chao-Gan Yan
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, 100101, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China.,International Big-Data Center for Depression Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97074, Germany
| | - Yohan Yee
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada.,Mouse Imaging Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, M5T 3H7, Canada
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- Figshare, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.,University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.,Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inserm, IRISA UMR 6074, Empenn ERL U 1228, 35042 Rennes, France
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Pinho AL, Amadon A, Fabre M, Dohmatob E, Denghien I, Torre JJ, Ginisty C, Becuwe-Desmidt S, Roger S, Laurier L, Joly-Testault V, Médiouni-Cloarec G, Doublé C, Martins B, Pinel P, Eger E, Varoquaux G, Pallier C, Dehaene S, Hertz-Pannier L, Thirion B. Subject-specific segregation of functional territories based on deep phenotyping. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 42:841-870. [PMID: 33368868 PMCID: PMC7856658 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Revised: 07/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has opened the possibility to investigate how brain activity is modulated by behavior. Most studies so far are bound to one single task, in which functional responses to a handful of contrasts are analyzed and reported as a group average brain map. Contrariwise, recent data-collection efforts have started to target a systematic spatial representation of multiple mental functions. In this paper, we leverage the Individual Brain Charting (IBC) dataset-a high-resolution task-fMRI dataset acquired in a fixed environment-in order to study the feasibility of individual mapping. First, we verify that the IBC brain maps reproduce those obtained from previous, large-scale datasets using the same tasks. Second, we confirm that the elementary spatial components, inferred across all tasks, are consistently mapped within and, to a lesser extent, across participants. Third, we demonstrate the relevance of the topographic information of the individual contrast maps, showing that contrasts from one task can be predicted by contrasts from other tasks. At last, we showcase the benefit of contrast accumulation for the fine functional characterization of brain regions within a prespecified network. To this end, we analyze the cognitive profile of functional territories pertaining to the language network and prove that these profiles generalize across participants.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau, France.,Criteo AI Lab, Paris, France
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- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France
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- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France
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- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France
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- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France
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- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France.,Collège de France, Paris, France
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- CEA Saclay/DRF/IFJ/NeuroSpin/UNIACT, Paris, France.,UMR 1141, NeuroDiderot, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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Dadi K, Varoquaux G, Machlouzarides-Shalit A, Gorgolewski KJ, Wassermann D, Thirion B, Mensch A. Fine-grain atlases of functional modes for fMRI analysis. Neuroimage 2020; 221:117126. [PMID: 32673748 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2020] [Revised: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Population imaging markedly increased the size of functional-imaging datasets, shedding new light on the neural basis of inter-individual differences. Analyzing these large data entails new scalability challenges, computational and statistical. For this reason, brain images are typically summarized in a few signals, for instance reducing voxel-level measures with brain atlases or functional modes. A good choice of the corresponding brain networks is important, as most data analyses start from these reduced signals. We contribute finely-resolved atlases of functional modes, comprising from 64 to 1024 networks. These dictionaries of functional modes (DiFuMo) are trained on millions of fMRI functional brain volumes of total size 2.4 TB, spanned over 27 studies and many research groups. We demonstrate the benefits of extracting reduced signals on our fine-grain atlases for many classic functional data analysis pipelines: stimuli decoding from 12,334 brain responses, standard GLM analysis of fMRI across sessions and individuals, extraction of resting-state functional-connectomes biomarkers for 2500 individuals, data compression and meta-analysis over more than 15,000 statistical maps. In each of these analysis scenarii, we compare the performance of our functional atlases with that of other popular references, and to a simple voxel-level analysis. Results highlight the importance of using high-dimensional "soft" functional atlases, to represent and analyze brain activity while capturing its functional gradients. Analyses on high-dimensional modes achieve similar statistical performance as at the voxel level, but with much reduced computational cost and higher interpretability. In addition to making them available, we provide meaningful names for these modes, based on their anatomical location. It will facilitate reporting of results.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kamalaker Dadi
- Inria, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, 91120, France.
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- Inria, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, 91120, France
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- Inria, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, 91120, France; ENS, DMA, 45 Rue D'Ulm, 75005, Paris, France
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Sabbagh D, Ablin P, Varoquaux G, Gramfort A, Engemann DA. Predictive regression modeling with MEG/EEG: from source power to signals and cognitive states. Neuroimage 2020; 222:116893. [PMID: 32439535 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Predicting biomedical outcomes from Magnetoencephalography and Electroencephalography (M/EEG) is central to applications like decoding, brain-computer-interfaces (BCI) or biomarker development and is facilitated by supervised machine learning. Yet, most of the literature is concerned with classification of outcomes defined at the event-level. Here, we focus on predicting continuous outcomes from M/EEG signal defined at the subject-level, and analyze about 600 MEG recordings from Cam-CAN dataset and about 1000 EEG recordings from TUH dataset. Considering different generative mechanisms for M/EEG signals and the biomedical outcome, we propose statistically-consistent predictive models that avoid source-reconstruction based on the covariance as representation. Our mathematical analysis and ground-truth simulations demonstrated that consistent function approximation can be obtained with supervised spatial filtering or by embedding with Riemannian geometry. Additional simulations revealed that Riemannian methods were more robust to model violations, in particular geometric distortions induced by individual anatomy. To estimate the relative contribution of brain dynamics and anatomy to prediction performance, we propose a novel model inspection procedure based on biophysical forward modeling. Applied to prediction of outcomes at the subject-level, the analysis revealed that the Riemannian model better exploited anatomical information while sensitivity to brain dynamics was similar across methods. We then probed the robustness of the models across different data cleaning options. Environmental denoising was globally important but Riemannian models were strikingly robust and continued performing well even without preprocessing. Our results suggest each method has its niche: supervised spatial filtering is practical for event-level prediction while the Riemannian model may enable simple end-to-end learning.
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- David Sabbagh
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau, France; Inserm, UMRS-942, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France; Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau, France; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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Dockès J, Poldrack RA, Primet R, Gözükan H, Yarkoni T, Suchanek F, Thirion B, Varoquaux G. NeuroQuery, comprehensive meta-analysis of human brain mapping. eLife 2020; 9:53385. [PMID: 32129761 PMCID: PMC7164961 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Reaching a global view of brain organization requires assembling evidence on widely different mental processes and mechanisms. The variety of human neuroscience concepts and terminology poses a fundamental challenge to relating brain imaging results across the scientific literature. Existing meta-analysis methods perform statistical tests on sets of publications associated with a particular concept. Thus, large-scale meta-analyses only tackle single terms that occur frequently. We propose a new paradigm, focusing on prediction rather than inference. Our multivariate model predicts the spatial distribution of neurological observations, given text describing an experiment, cognitive process, or disease. This approach handles text of arbitrary length and terms that are too rare for standard meta-analysis. We capture the relationships and neural correlates of 7547 neuroscience terms across 13 459 neuroimaging publications. The resulting meta-analytic tool, neuroquery.org, can ground hypothesis generation and data-analysis priors on a comprehensive view of published findings on the brain.
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- Jérôme Dockès
- Inria, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Essonne, France
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- University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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- Inria, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Essonne, France.,Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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The reproducibility of scientific research has become a point of critical concern. We argue that openness and transparency are critical for reproducibility, and we outline an ecosystem for open and transparent science that has emerged within the human neuroimaging community. We discuss the range of open data-sharing resources that have been developed for neuroimaging data, as well as the role of data standards (particularly the brain imaging data structure) in enabling the automated sharing, processing, and reuse of large neuroimaging data sets. We outline how the open source Python language has provided the basis for a data science platform that enables reproducible data analysis and visualization. We also discuss how new advances in software engineering, such as containerization, provide the basis for greater reproducibility in data analysis. The emergence of this new ecosystem provides an example for many areas of science that are currently struggling with reproducibility.
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- Russell A. Poldrack
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Parietal Team, Inria and NeuroSpin/CEA (Atomic Energy Commission), 91191 Gif/-sur-Yvette, France
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Karrer TM, Bassett DS, Derntl B, Gruber O, Aleman A, Jardri R, Laird AR, Fox PT, Eickhoff SB, Grisel O, Varoquaux G, Thirion B, Bzdok D. Brain-based ranking of cognitive domains to predict schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 40:4487-4507. [PMID: 31313451 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder that disturbs sensory perception, motor action, and abstract thought. Its clinical phenotype implies dysfunction of various mental domains, which has motivated a series of theories regarding the underlying pathophysiology. Aiming at a predictive benchmark of a catalog of cognitive functions, we developed a data-driven machine-learning strategy and provide a proof of principle in a multisite clinical dataset (n = 324). Existing neuroscientific knowledge on diverse cognitive domains was first condensed into neurotopographical maps. We then examined how the ensuing meta-analytic cognitive priors can distinguish patients and controls using brain morphology and intrinsic functional connectivity. Some affected cognitive domains supported well-studied directions of research on auditory evaluation and social cognition. However, rarely suspected cognitive domains also emerged as disease relevant, including self-oriented processing of bodily sensations in gustation and pain. Such algorithmic charting of the cognitive landscape can be used to make targeted recommendations for future mental health research.
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- Teresa M Karrer
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Translational Brain Medicine, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), Aachen, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- BCN Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Lille, CNRS UMR 9193, SCALab and CHU Lille, Fontan Hospital, Lille, France
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.,South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas.,State Key Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay/NeuroSpin, Palaiseau, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay/NeuroSpin, Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.,Translational Brain Medicine, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), Aachen, Germany.,Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay/NeuroSpin, Palaiseau, France
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Varoquaux G, Poldrack RA. Predictive models avoid excessive reductionism in cognitive neuroimaging. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2018; 55:1-6. [PMID: 30513462 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Revised: 09/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Understanding the organization of complex behavior as it relates to the brain requires modeling the behavior, the relevant mental processes, and the corresponding neural activity. Experiments in cognitive neuroscience typically study a psychological process via controlled manipulations, reducing behavior to one of its components. Such reductionism can easily lead to paradigm-bound theories. Predictive models can generalize brain-mind associations to arbitrary new tasks and stimuli. We argue that they are needed to broaden theories beyond specific paradigms. Predicting behavior from neural activity can support robust reverse inference, isolating brain structures that support particular mental processes. The converse prediction enables modeling brain responses as a function of a complete description of the task, rather than building on oppositions.
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Varoquaux G, Schwartz Y, Poldrack RA, Gauthier B, Bzdok D, Poline JB, Thirion B. Atlases of cognition with large-scale human brain mapping. PLoS Comput Biol 2018; 14:e1006565. [PMID: 30496171 PMCID: PMC6289578 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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To map the neural substrate of mental function, cognitive neuroimaging relies on controlled psychological manipulations that engage brain systems associated with specific cognitive processes. In order to build comprehensive atlases of cognitive function in the brain, it must assemble maps for many different cognitive processes, which often evoke overlapping patterns of activation. Such data aggregation faces contrasting goals: on the one hand finding correspondences across vastly different cognitive experiments, while on the other hand precisely describing the function of any given brain region. Here we introduce a new analysis framework that tackles these difficulties and thereby enables the generation of brain atlases for cognitive function. The approach leverages ontologies of cognitive concepts and multi-label brain decoding to map the neural substrate of these concepts. We demonstrate the approach by building an atlas of functional brain organization based on 30 diverse functional neuroimaging studies, totaling 196 different experimental conditions. Unlike conventional brain mapping, this functional atlas supports robust reverse inference: predicting the mental processes from brain activity in the regions delineated by the atlas. To establish that this reverse inference is indeed governed by the corresponding concepts, and not idiosyncrasies of experimental designs, we show that it can accurately decode the cognitive concepts recruited in new tasks. These results demonstrate that aggregating independent task-fMRI studies can provide a more precise global atlas of selective associations between brain and cognition. Cognitive neuroscience uses neuroimaging to identify brain systems engaged in specific cognitive tasks. However, linking unequivocally brain systems with cognitive functions is difficult: each task probes only a small number of facets of cognition, while brain systems are often engaged in many tasks. We develop a new approach to generate a functional atlas of cognition, demonstrating brain systems selectively associated with specific cognitive functions. This approach relies upon an ontology that defines specific cognitive functions and the relations between them, along with an analysis scheme tailored to this ontology. Using a database of thirty neuroimaging studies, we show that this approach provides a highly-specific atlas of mental functions, and that it can decode the mental processes engaged in new tasks.
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- Gaël Varoquaux
- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France
- STIC department, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
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- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France
- STIC department, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France
- JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Aachen, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, 52072 Aachen, Germany
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- Montreal neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Parietal, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, France
- STIC department, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
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Varoquaux G. Cross-validation failure: Small sample sizes lead to large error bars. Neuroimage 2018; 180:68-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2017] [Revised: 06/19/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Pinho AL, Amadon A, Ruest T, Fabre M, Dohmatob E, Denghien I, Ginisty C, Becuwe-Desmidt S, Roger S, Laurier L, Joly-Testault V, Médiouni-Cloarec G, Doublé C, Martins B, Pinel P, Eger E, Varoquaux G, Pallier C, Dehaene S, Hertz-Pannier L, Thirion B. Individual Brain Charting, a high-resolution fMRI dataset for cognitive mapping. Sci Data 2018; 5:180105. [PMID: 29893753 PMCID: PMC5996851 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has furthered brain mapping on perceptual, motor, as well as higher-level cognitive functions. However, to date, no data collection has systematically addressed the functional mapping of cognitive mechanisms at a fine spatial scale. The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project stands for a high-resolution multi-task fMRI dataset that intends to provide the objective basis toward a comprehensive functional atlas of the human brain. The data refer to a cohort of 12 participants performing many different tasks. The large amount of task-fMRI data on the same subjects yields a precise mapping of the underlying functions, free from both inter-subject and inter-site variability. The present article gives a detailed description of the first release of the IBC dataset. It comprises a dozen of tasks, addressing both low- and high- level cognitive functions. This openly available dataset is thus intended to become a reference for cognitive brain mapping.
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- Ana Luísa Pinho
- Parietal Team, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
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- Parietal Team, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Saclay, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- Paris-Sud University, Paris, France
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- Parietal Team, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Saclay, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- Paris-Sud University, Paris, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- UNIACT-U1129, Paris, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Saclay, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- Paris-Sud University, Paris, France
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- Parietal Team, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Saclay, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- Paris-Sud University, Paris, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Saclay, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- Paris-Sud University, Paris, France
- Collège de France, Paris, France
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- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- UNIACT-U1129, Paris, France
- Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
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- Parietal Team, Inria, Saclay, France
- Neurospin, CEA, Saclay, France
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
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Lefort-Besnard J, Bassett DS, Smallwood J, Margulies DS, Derntl B, Gruber O, Aleman A, Jardri R, Varoquaux G, Thirion B, Eickhoff SB, Bzdok D. Different shades of default mode disturbance in schizophrenia: Subnodal covariance estimation in structure and function. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 39:644-661. [PMID: 29105239 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2017] [Revised: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disease with an apparent disruption in the highly associative default mode network (DMN). Interplay between this canonical network and others probably contributes to goal-directed behavior so its disturbance is a candidate neural fingerprint underlying schizophrenia psychopathology. Previous research has reported both hyperconnectivity and hypoconnectivity within the DMN, and both increased and decreased DMN coupling with the multimodal saliency network (SN) and dorsal attention network (DAN). This study systematically revisited network disruption in patients with schizophrenia using data-derived network atlases and multivariate pattern-learning algorithms in a multisite dataset (n = 325). Resting-state fluctuations in unconstrained brain states were used to estimate functional connectivity, and local volume differences between individuals were used to estimate structural co-occurrence within and between the DMN, SN, and DAN. In brain structure and function, sparse inverse covariance estimates of network coupling were used to characterize healthy participants and patients with schizophrenia, and to identify statistically significant group differences. Evidence did not confirm that the backbone of the DMN was the primary driver of brain dysfunction in schizophrenia. Instead, functional and structural aberrations were frequently located outside of the DMN core, such as in the anterior temporoparietal junction and precuneus. Additionally, functional covariation analyses highlighted dysfunctional DMN-DAN coupling, while structural covariation results highlighted aberrant DMN-SN coupling. Our findings reframe the role of the DMN core and its relation to canonical networks in schizophrenia. We thus underline the importance of large-scale neural interactions as effective biomarkers and indicators of how to tailor psychiatric care to single patients.
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- Jérémy Lefort-Besnard
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA.,Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, United Kingdom
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy and Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.,Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) - Translational Brain Medicine, Aachen, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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- BCN Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Lille, CNRS UMR9193, SCALab & CHU Lille, Fontan Hospital, CURE platform, Lille, 59000, France
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52425, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.,Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) - Translational Brain Medicine, Aachen, Germany.,Parietal Team, INRIA/Neurospin Saclay, France
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Hoyos-Idrobo A, Varoquaux G, Schwartz Y, Thirion B. FReM - Scalable and stable decoding with fast regularized ensemble of models. Neuroimage 2017; 180:160-172. [PMID: 29030104 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Revised: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 10/03/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Brain decoding relates behavior to brain activity through predictive models. These are also used to identify brain regions involved in the cognitive operations related to the observed behavior. Training such multivariate models is a high-dimensional statistical problem that calls for suitable priors. State of the art priors -eg small total-variation- enforce spatial structure on the maps to stabilize them and improve prediction. However, they come with a hefty computational cost. We build upon very fast dimension reduction with spatial structure and model ensembling to achieve decoders that are fast on large datasets and increase the stability of the predictions and the maps. Our approach, fast regularized ensemble of models (FReM), includes an implicit spatial regularization by using a voxel grouping with a fast clustering algorithm. In addition, it aggregates different estimators obtained across splits of a cross-validation loop, each time keeping the best possible model. Experiments on a large number of brain imaging datasets show that our combination of voxel clustering and model ensembling improves decoding maps stability and reduces the variance of prediction accuracy. Importantly, our method requires less samples than state-of-the-art methods to achieve a given level of prediction accuracy. Finally, FreM is much faster than other spatially-regularized methods and, in addition, it can better exploit parallel computing resources.
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- Andrés Hoyos-Idrobo
- Parietal project-team, INRIA, Saclay-île de, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France.
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA, Saclay-île de, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA, Saclay-île de, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA, Saclay-île de, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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Brain-imaging technology has boosted the quantification of neurobiological phenomena underlying human mental operations and their disturbances. Since its inception, drawing inference on neurophysiological effects hinged on classical statistical methods, especially, the general linear model. The tens of thousands of variables per brain scan were routinely tackled by independent statistical tests on each voxel. This circumvented the curse of dimensionality in exchange for neurobiologically imperfect observation units, a challenging multiple comparisons problem, and limited scaling to currently growing data repositories. Yet, the always bigger information granularity of neuroimaging data repositories has lunched a rapidly increasing adoption of statistical learning algorithms. These scale naturally to high-dimensional data, extract models from data rather than prespecifying them, and are empirically evaluated for extrapolation to unseen data. The present article portrays commonalities and differences between long-standing classical inference and upcoming generalization inference relevant for conducting neuroimaging research.
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- Danilo Bzdok
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- JARA, Translational Brain Medicine, Aachen, Germany
- INRIA, Neurospin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France
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Loula J, Varoquaux G, Thirion B. Decoding fMRI activity in the time domain improves classification performance. Neuroimage 2017; 180:203-210. [PMID: 28801250 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Most current functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) decoding analyses rely on statistical summaries of the data resulting from a deconvolution approach: each stimulation event is associated with a brain response. This standard approach leads to simple learning procedures, yet it is ill-suited for decoding events with short inter-stimulus intervals. In order to overcome this issue, we propose a novel framework that separates the spatial and temporal components of the prediction by decoding the fMRI time-series continuously, i.e. scan-by-scan. The stimulation events can then be identified through a deconvolution of the reconstructed time series. We show that this model performs as well as or better than standard approaches across several datasets, most notably in regimes with small inter-stimuli intervals (3-5s), while also offering predictions that are highly interpretable in the time domain. This opens the way toward analyzing datasets not normally thought of as suitable for decoding and makes it possible to run decoding on studies with reduced scan time.
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- João Loula
- Parietal Team - Inria/CEA, Paris Saclay University, France; Department of Computer Science, École Polytechnique, France.
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- Parietal Team - Inria/CEA, Paris Saclay University, France
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Rahim M, Thirion B, Bzdok D, Buvat I, Varoquaux G. Joint prediction of multiple scores captures better individual traits from brain images. Neuroimage 2017; 158:145-154. [PMID: 28676298 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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To probe individual variations in brain organization, population imaging relates features of brain images to rich descriptions of the subjects such as genetic information or behavioral and clinical assessments. Capturing common trends across these measurements is important: they jointly characterize the disease status of patient groups. In particular, mapping imaging features to behavioral scores with predictive models opens the way toward more precise diagnosis. Here we propose to jointly predict all the dimensions (behavioral scores) that make up the individual profiles, using so-called multi-output models. This approach often boosts prediction accuracy by capturing latent shared information across scores. We demonstrate the efficiency of multi-output models on two independent resting-state fMRI datasets targeting different brain disorders (Alzheimer's Disease and schizophrenia). Furthermore, the model with joint prediction generalizes much better to a new cohort: a model learned on one study is more accurately transferred to an independent one. Finally, we show how multi-output models can easily be extended to multi-modal settings, combining heterogeneous data sources for a better overall accuracy.
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- Mehdi Rahim
- Parietal Team - Inria, CEA - Paris Saclay University, France.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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- IMIV Group - Inserm, CEA, Univ. Paris Sud - Paris Saclay University, France
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- Parietal Team - Inria, CEA - Paris Saclay University, France
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Eickenberg M, Gramfort A, Varoquaux G, Thirion B. Seeing it all: Convolutional network layers map the function of the human visual system. Neuroimage 2017; 152:184-194. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Revised: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Gorgolewski KJ, Alfaro-Almagro F, Auer T, Bellec P, Capotă M, Chakravarty MM, Churchill NW, Cohen AL, Craddock RC, Devenyi GA, Eklund A, Esteban O, Flandin G, Ghosh SS, Guntupalli JS, Jenkinson M, Keshavan A, Kiar G, Liem F, Raamana PR, Raffelt D, Steele CJ, Quirion PO, Smith RE, Strother SC, Varoquaux G, Wang Y, Yarkoni T, Poldrack RA. BIDS apps: Improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods. PLoS Comput Biol 2017; 13:e1005209. [PMID: 28278228 PMCID: PMC5363996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Revised: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The rate of progress in human neurosciences is limited by the inability to easily apply a wide range of analysis methods to the plethora of different datasets acquired in labs around the world. In this work, we introduce a framework for creating, testing, versioning and archiving portable applications for analyzing neuroimaging data organized and described in compliance with the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS). The portability of these applications (BIDS Apps) is achieved by using container technologies that encapsulate all binary and other dependencies in one convenient package. BIDS Apps run on all three major operating systems with no need for complex setup and configuration and thanks to the comprehensiveness of the BIDS standard they require little manual user input. Previous containerized data processing solutions were limited to single user environments and not compatible with most multi-tenant High Performance Computing systems. BIDS Apps overcome this limitation by taking advantage of the Singularity container technology. As a proof of concept, this work is accompanied by 22 ready to use BIDS Apps, packaging a diverse set of commonly used neuroimaging algorithms.
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- Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
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- Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire Gériatrique de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- Department of computer science and operations research, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA & Hillsboro, Oregon, United States of America
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Computational Neuroimaging Lab, Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York, United States of America
- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging", University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Parietal team, INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, Palaiseau, France
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- Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA & Hillsboro, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Liem F, Varoquaux G, Kynast J, Beyer F, Kharabian Masouleh S, Huntenburg JM, Lampe L, Rahim M, Abraham A, Craddock RC, Riedel-Heller S, Luck T, Loeffler M, Schroeter ML, Witte AV, Villringer A, Margulies DS. Predicting brain-age from multimodal imaging data captures cognitive impairment. Neuroimage 2017; 148:179-188. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Processing neuroimaging data on the cortical surface traditionally requires dedicated heavy-weight software suites. Here, we present an initial support of cortical surfaces in Python within the neuroimaging data processing toolbox Nilearn. We provide loading and plotting functions for different surface data formats with minimal dependencies, along with examples of their application. Limitations of the current implementation and potential next steps are discussed.
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Varoquaux G, Raamana PR, Engemann DA, Hoyos-Idrobo A, Schwartz Y, Thirion B. Assessing and tuning brain decoders: Cross-validation, caveats, and guidelines. Neuroimage 2016; 145:166-179. [PMID: 27989847 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.10.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 361] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Revised: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Decoding, i.e. prediction from brain images or signals, calls for empirical evaluation of its predictive power. Such evaluation is achieved via cross-validation, a method also used to tune decoders' hyper-parameters. This paper is a review on cross-validation procedures for decoding in neuroimaging. It includes a didactic overview of the relevant theoretical considerations. Practical aspects are highlighted with an extensive empirical study of the common decoders in within- and across-subject predictions, on multiple datasets -anatomical and functional MRI and MEG- and simulations. Theory and experiments outline that the popular "leave-one-out" strategy leads to unstable and biased estimates, and a repeated random splits method should be preferred. Experiments outline the large error bars of cross-validation in neuroimaging settings: typical confidence intervals of 10%. Nested cross-validation can tune decoders' parameters while avoiding circularity bias. However we find that it can be favorable to use sane defaults, in particular for non-sparse decoders.
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- Gaël Varoquaux
- Parietal project-team, INRIA Saclay-ile de France, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada M6A 2E1; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A1
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- CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France; Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud and Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Neuropsychology & Neuroimaging team INSERM UMRS 975, Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Paris
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA Saclay-ile de France, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA Saclay-ile de France, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal project-team, INRIA Saclay-ile de France, France; CEA/Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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Rahim M, Thirion B, Comtat C, Varoquaux G. Transmodal Learning of Functional Networks for Alzheimer's Disease Prediction. IEEE J Sel Top Signal Process 2016; 10:120-1213. [PMID: 28496560 PMCID: PMC5421559 DOI: 10.1109/jstsp.2016.2600400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Functional connectivity describes neural activity from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). This noninvasive modality is a promising imaging biomarker of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), where the connectome can be an indicator to assess and to understand the pathology. However, it only provides noisy measurements of brain activity. As a consequence, it has shown fairly limited discrimination power on clinical groups. So far, the reference functional marker of AD is the fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). It gives a reliable quantification of metabolic activity, but it is costly and invasive. Here, our goal is to analyze AD populations solely based on rs-fMRI, as functional connectivity is correlated to metabolism. We introduce transmodal learning: leveraging a prior from one modality to improve results of another modality on different subjects. A metabolic prior is learned from an independent FDG-PET dataset to improve functional connectivity-based prediction of AD. The prior acts as a regularization of connectivity learning and improves the estimation of discriminative patterns from distinct rs-fMRI datasets. Our approach is a two-stage classification strategy that combines several seed-based connectivity maps to cover a large number of functional networks that identify AD physiopathology. Experimental results show that our transmodal approach increases classification accuracy compared to pure rs-fMRI approaches, without resorting to additional invasive acquisitions. The method successfully recovers brain regions known to be impacted by the disease.
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- Mehdi Rahim
- Parietal project team - INRIA Saclay and with IMIV team - CEA Saclay DRF/I2BM/NeuroSpin and SHFJ. Paris-Saclay University. France
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- Parietal project team - INRIA Saclay and CEA Saclay DRF/I2BM/NeuroSpin. Paris-Saclay University. France
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- IMIV team - CEA Saclay DRF/I2BM/SHFJ. Paris-Saclay University. France
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- Parietal project team - INRIA Saclay and CEA Saclay DRF/I2BM/NeuroSpin. Paris-Saclay University. France
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Eickhoff SB, Thirion B, Varoquaux G, Bzdok D. Connectivity-based parcellation: Critique and implications. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:4771-92. [PMID: 26409749 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2015] [Revised: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Regional specialization and functional integration are often viewed as two fundamental principles of human brain organization. They are closely intertwined because each functionally specialized brain region is probably characterized by a distinct set of long-range connections. This notion has prompted the quickly developing family of connectivity-based parcellation (CBP) methods in neuroimaging research. CBP assumes that there is a latent structure of parcels in a region of interest (ROI). First, connectivity strengths are computed to other parts of the brain for each voxel/vertex within the ROI. These features are then used to identify functionally distinct groups of ROI voxels/vertices. CBP enjoys increasing popularity for the in-vivo mapping of regional specialization in the human brain. Due to the requirements of different applications and datasets, CBP has diverged into a heterogeneous family of methods. This broad overview critically discusses the current state as well as the commonalities and idiosyncrasies of the main CBP methods. We target frequent concerns faced by novices and veterans to provide a reference for the investigation and review of CBP studies.
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- Simon B Eickhoff
- Institut Für Neurowissenschaften Und Medizin (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, 52425, Germany.,Institut Für Klinische Neurowissenschaften Und Medizinische Psychologie, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Parietal Team, INRIA, Neurospin, Bat 145, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA, Neurospin, Bat 145, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut Für Neurowissenschaften Und Medizin (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, 52425, Germany.,Institut Für Klinische Neurowissenschaften Und Medizinische Psychologie, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany.,Parietal Team, INRIA, Neurospin, Bat 145, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Uniklinik RWTH, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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Belilovsky E, Argyriou A, Varoquaux G, Blaschko M. Convex relaxations of penalties for sparse correlated variables with bounded total variation. Mach Learn 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10994-015-5511-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Machine learning is a pervasive development at the intersection of statistics and computer science. While it can benefit many data-related applications, the technical nature of the research literature and the corresponding algorithms slows down its adoption. Scikit-learn is an open-source software project that aims at making machine learning accessible to all, whether it be in academia or in industry. It benefits from the general-purpose Python language, which is both broadly adopted in the scientific world, and supported by a thriving ecosystem of contributors. Here we give a quick introduction to scikit-learn as well as to machine-learning basics.
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- Parietal, INRIA, CEA Institute, France
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Fritsch V, Da Mota B, Loth E, Varoquaux G, Banaschewski T, Barker GJ, Bokde ALW, Brühl R, Butzek B, Conrod P, Flor H, Garavan H, Lemaitre H, Mann K, Nees F, Paus T, Schad DJ, Schümann G, Frouin V, Poline JB, Thirion B. Robust regression for large-scale neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage 2015; 111:431-41. [PMID: 25731989 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2014] [Revised: 02/09/2015] [Accepted: 02/19/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Multi-subject datasets used in neuroimaging group studies have a complex structure, as they exhibit non-stationary statistical properties across regions and display various artifacts. While studies with small sample sizes can rarely be shown to deviate from standard hypotheses (such as the normality of the residuals) due to the poor sensitivity of normality tests with low degrees of freedom, large-scale studies (e.g. >100 subjects) exhibit more obvious deviations from these hypotheses and call for more refined models for statistical inference. Here, we demonstrate the benefits of robust regression as a tool for analyzing large neuroimaging cohorts. First, we use an analytic test based on robust parameter estimates; based on simulations, this procedure is shown to provide an accurate statistical control without resorting to permutations. Second, we show that robust regression yields more detections than standard algorithms using as an example an imaging genetics study with 392 subjects. Third, we show that robust regression can avoid false positives in a large-scale analysis of brain-behavior relationships with over 1500 subjects. Finally we embed robust regression in the Randomized Parcellation Based Inference (RPBI) method and demonstrate that this combination further improves the sensitivity of tests carried out across the whole brain. Altogether, our results show that robust procedures provide important advantages in large-scale neuroimaging group studies.
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- Virgile Fritsch
- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France, Saclay, France; CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France, Saclay, France; CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France, Saclay, France; CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre, London, United Kingdom; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Berlin, Germany; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre, London, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, Universite de Montreal, CHU Ste Justine Hospital, Canada; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany; Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Psychiatry, University of VT, USA; Department of Psychology, University of VT, USA; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM CEA Unit 1000 "Imaging & Psychiatry", University Paris Sud, Orsay, France; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Department of Addictive Behaviour and Addiction Medicine, Germany; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany; Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre, London, United Kingdom; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center, University of California at Berkeley, USA; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France, Saclay, France; CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France; Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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Increasingly-large datasets (for example, the resting-state fMRI data from the Human Connectome Project) are demanding analyses that are problematic because of the sheer scale of the aggregate data. We present two approaches for applying group-level PCA; both give a close approximation to the output of PCA applied to full concatenation of all individual datasets, while having very low memory requirements regardless of the number of datasets being combined. Across a range of realistic simulations, we find that in most situations, both methods are more accurate than current popular approaches for analysis of multi-subject resting-state fMRI studies. The group-PCA output can be used to feed into a range of further analyses that are then rendered practical, such as the estimation of group-averaged voxelwise connectivity, group-level parcellation, and group-ICA.
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- Stephen M Smith
- FMRIB (Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK.
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- Dept of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France, Saclay, France
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- FMRIB (Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK
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- FMRIB (Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Analysis and interpretation of neuroimaging data often require one to divide the brain into a number of regions, or parcels, with homogeneous characteristics, be these regions defined in the brain volume or on the cortical surface. While predefined brain atlases do not adapt to the signal in the individual subject images, parcellation approaches use brain activity (e.g., found in some functional contrasts of interest) and clustering techniques to define regions with some degree of signal homogeneity. In this work, we address the question of which clustering technique is appropriate and how to optimize the corresponding model. We use two principled criteria: goodness of fit (accuracy), and reproducibility of the parcellation across bootstrap samples. We study these criteria on both simulated and two task-based functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging datasets for the Ward, spectral and k-means clustering algorithms. We show that in general Ward’s clustering performs better than alternative methods with regard to reproducibility and accuracy and that the two criteria diverge regarding the preferred models (reproducibility leading to more conservative solutions), thus deferring the practical decision to a higher level alternative, namely the choice of a trade-off between accuracy and stability.
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- Bertrand Thirion
- Parietal Project-Team, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Palaiseau, France ; Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et Aux Énergies Alternatives, DSV, Neurospin, I2 BM Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal Project-Team, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Palaiseau, France ; Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et Aux Énergies Alternatives, DSV, Neurospin, I2 BM Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal Project-Team, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Palaiseau, France ; Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et Aux Énergies Alternatives, DSV, Neurospin, I2 BM Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et Aux Énergies Alternatives, DSV, Neurospin, I2 BM Gif-sur-Yvette, France ; Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
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Da Mota B, Tudoran R, Costan A, Varoquaux G, Brasche G, Conrod P, Lemaitre H, Paus T, Rietschel M, Frouin V, Poline JB, Antoniu G, Thirion B. Machine learning patterns for neuroimaging-genetic studies in the cloud. Front Neuroinform 2014; 8:31. [PMID: 24782753 PMCID: PMC3986524 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Brain imaging is a natural intermediate phenotype to understand the link between genetic information and behavior or brain pathologies risk factors. Massive efforts have been made in the last few years to acquire high-dimensional neuroimaging and genetic data on large cohorts of subjects. The statistical analysis of such data is carried out with increasingly sophisticated techniques and represents a great computational challenge. Fortunately, increasing computational power in distributed architectures can be harnessed, if new neuroinformatics infrastructures are designed and training to use these new tools is provided. Combining a MapReduce framework (TomusBLOB) with machine learning algorithms (Scikit-learn library), we design a scalable analysis tool that can deal with non-parametric statistics on high-dimensional data. End-users describe the statistical procedure to perform and can then test the model on their own computers before running the very same code in the cloud at a larger scale. We illustrate the potential of our approach on real data with an experiment showing how the functional signal in subcortical brain regions can be significantly fit with genome-wide genotypes. This experiment demonstrates the scalability and the reliability of our framework in the cloud with a 2 weeks deployment on hundreds of virtual machines.
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- Benoit Da Mota
- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay, Île-de-France Saclay, France ; CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- KerData Team, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Rennes, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay, Île-de-France Saclay, France ; CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Microsoft, Advance Technology Lab Europe Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London London, UK ; Department of Psychiatry, Universite de Montreal, CHU Ste Justine Hospital Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM CEA Unit 1000 "Imaging & Psychiatry," University Paris Sud, Orsay, and AP-HP Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, University Paris Descartes Paris, France
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- Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK ; Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Germany ; Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany
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- CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin Gif-sur-Yvette, France ; Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
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- KerData Team, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Rennes, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay, Île-de-France Saclay, France ; CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Da Mota B, Fritsch V, Varoquaux G, Frouin V, Poline JB, Thirion B. Enhancing the reproducibility of group analysis with randomized brain parcellations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 16:591-8. [PMID: 24579189 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40763-5_73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/10/2023]
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Neuroimaging group analyses are used to compare the intersubject variability observed in brain organization with behavioural or genetic variables and to assess risks factors of brain diseases. The lack of stability and of sensitivity of current voxel-based analysis schemes may however lead to non-reproducible results. A new approach is introduced to overcome the limitations of standard methods, in which active voxels are detected according to a consensus on several random parcellations of the brain images, while a permutation test controls the false positive risk. Both on syntetic and real data, this approach shows higher sensitivity, better recovery and higher reproducibility than standard methods and succeeds in detecting a significant association in an imaging-genetic study between a genetic variant next to the COMT gene and a region in the left thalamus on a functional magnetic resonance imaging contrast.
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- Benoit Da Mota
- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France, Saclay, France.
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France, Saclay, France
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- CEA, DSV, I2BM, Neurospin bât 145, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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Da Mota B, Fritsch V, Varoquaux G, Banaschewski T, Barker GJ, Bokde AL, Bromberg U, Conrod P, Gallinat J, Garavan H, Martinot JL, Nees F, Paus T, Pausova Z, Rietschel M, Smolka MN, Ströhle A, Frouin V, Poline JB, Thirion B. Randomized parcellation based inference. Neuroimage 2014; 89:203-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2013] [Revised: 10/30/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Abraham A, Pedregosa F, Eickenberg M, Gervais P, Mueller A, Kossaifi J, Gramfort A, Thirion B, Varoquaux G. Machine learning for neuroimaging with scikit-learn. Front Neuroinform 2014; 8:14. [PMID: 24600388 PMCID: PMC3930868 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 841] [Impact Index Per Article: 84.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2013] [Accepted: 01/31/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Statistical machine learning methods are increasingly used for neuroimaging data analysis. Their main virtue is their ability to model high-dimensional datasets, e.g., multivariate analysis of activation images or resting-state time series. Supervised learning is typically used in decoding or encoding settings to relate brain images to behavioral or clinical observations, while unsupervised learning can uncover hidden structures in sets of images (e.g., resting state functional MRI) or find sub-populations in large cohorts. By considering different functional neuroimaging applications, we illustrate how scikit-learn, a Python machine learning library, can be used to perform some key analysis steps. Scikit-learn contains a very large set of statistical learning algorithms, both supervised and unsupervised, and its application to neuroimaging data provides a versatile tool to study the brain.
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- Alexandre Abraham
- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Saclay, France ; Neurospin, I2 BM, DSV, CEA Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Saclay, France ; Neurospin, I2 BM, DSV, CEA Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Saclay, France ; Neurospin, I2 BM, DSV, CEA Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Saclay, France ; Neurospin, I2 BM, DSV, CEA Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute of Computer Science VI, University of Bonn Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Computing, Imperial College London London, UK
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Saclay, France ; Neurospin, I2 BM, DSV, CEA Gif-Sur-Yvette, France ; Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI Paris, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Saclay, France ; Neurospin, I2 BM, DSV, CEA Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Saclay, France ; Neurospin, I2 BM, DSV, CEA Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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Ng B, Dressler M, Varoquaux G, Poline JB, Greicius M, Thirion B. Transport on Riemannian Manifold for Functional Connectivity-Based Classification. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014 2014; 17:405-12. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10470-6_51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Tian L, Kong Y, Ren J, Varoquaux G, Zang Y, Smith SM. Spatial vs. Temporal Features in ICA of Resting-State fMRI - A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation in the Context of Response Inhibition. PLoS One 2013; 8:e66572. [PMID: 23825545 PMCID: PMC3688987 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2013] [Accepted: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Independent component analysis (ICA) can identify covarying functional networks in the resting brain. Despite its relatively widespread use, the potential of the temporal information (unlike spatial information) obtained by ICA from resting state fMRI (RS-fMRI) data is not always fully utilized. In this study, we systematically investigated which features in ICA of resting-state fMRI relate to behaviour, with stop signal reaction time (SSRT) in a stop-signal task taken as a test case. We did this by correlating SSRT with the following three kinds of measure obtained from RS-fMRI data: (1) the amplitude of each resting state network (RSN) (evaluated by the standard deviation of the RSN timeseries), (2) the temporal correlation between every pair of RSN timeseries, and (3) the spatial map of each RSN. For multiple networks, we found significant correlations not only between SSRT and spatial maps, but also between SSRT and network activity amplitude. Most of these correlations are of functional interpretability. The temporal correlations between RSN pairs were of functional significance, but these correlations did not appear to be very sensitive to finding SSRT correlations. In addition, we also investigated the effects of the decomposition dimension, spatial smoothing and Z-transformation of the spatial maps, as well as the techniques for evaluating the temporal correlation between RSN timeseries. Overall, the temporal information acquired by ICA enabled us to investigate brain function from a complementary perspective to the information provided by spatial maps.
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- Lixia Tian
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
- FMRIB (Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain), Nuffield Dept. Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: .
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- FMRIB (Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain), Nuffield Dept. Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Parietal team, INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France, Saclay, France
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Affiliated Hospital, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- FMRIB (Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain), Nuffield Dept. Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ciuciu P, Varoquaux G, Abry P, Sadaghiani S, Kleinschmidt A. Scale-Free and Multifractal Time Dynamics of fMRI Signals during Rest and Task. Front Physiol 2012; 3:186. [PMID: 22715328 PMCID: PMC3375626 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2012] [Accepted: 05/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Scaling temporal dynamics in functional MRI (fMRI) signals have been evidenced for a decade as intrinsic characteristics of ongoing brain activity (Zarahn et al., 1997). Recently, scaling properties were shown to fluctuate across brain networks and to be modulated between rest and task (He, 2011): notably, Hurst exponent, quantifying long memory, decreases under task in activating and deactivating brain regions. In most cases, such results were obtained: First, from univariate (voxelwise or regionwise) analysis, hence focusing on specific cognitive systems such as Resting-State Networks (RSNs) and raising the issue of the specificity of this scale-free dynamics modulation in RSNs. Second, using analysis tools designed to measure a single scaling exponent related to the second order statistics of the data, thus relying on models that either implicitly or explicitly assume Gaussianity and (asymptotic) self-similarity, while fMRI signals may significantly depart from those either of those two assumptions (Ciuciu et al., 2008; Wink et al., 2008). To address these issues, the present contribution elaborates on the analysis of the scaling properties of fMRI temporal dynamics by proposing two significant variations. First, scaling properties are technically investigated using the recently introduced Wavelet Leader-based Multifractal formalism (WLMF; Wendt et al., 2007). This measures a collection of scaling exponents, thus enables a richer and more versatile description of scale invariance (beyond correlation and Gaussianity), referred to as multifractality. Also, it benefits from improved estimation performance compared to tools previously used in the literature. Second, scaling properties are investigated in both RSN and non-RSN structures (e.g., artifacts), at a broader spatial scale than the voxel one, using a multivariate approach, namely the Multi-Subject Dictionary Learning (MSDL) algorithm (Varoquaux et al., 2011) that produces a set of spatial components that appear more sparse than their Independent Component Analysis (ICA) counterpart. These tools are combined and applied to a fMRI dataset comprising 12 subjects with resting-state and activation runs (Sadaghiani et al., 2009). Results stemming from those analysis confirm the already reported task-related decrease of long memory in functional networks, but also show that it occurs in artifacts, thus making this feature not specific to functional networks. Further, results indicate that most fMRI signals appear multifractal at rest except in non-cortical regions. Task-related modulation of multifractality appears only significant in functional networks and thus can be considered as the key property disentangling functional networks from artifacts. These finding are discussed in the light of the recent literature reporting scaling dynamics of EEG microstate sequences at rest and addressing non-stationarity issues in temporally independent fMRI modes.
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- P Ciuciu
- Life Science Division, Biomedical Imaging Department, NeuroSpin Center, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Neylon C, Aerts J, Brown CT, Coles SJ, Hatton L, Lemire D, Millman KJ, Murray-Rust P, Perez F, Saunders N, Shah N, Smith A, Varoquaux G, Willighagen E. Changing computational research. The challenges ahead. Source Code Biol Med 2012; 7:2. [PMID: 22640749 PMCID: PMC3441321 DOI: 10.1186/1751-0473-7-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Accepted: 05/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Cameron Neylon
- Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, Harwell Oxford, UK.
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