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Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI

The monitoring and assessment of data quality is an essential step in the acquisition and analysis of functional MRI (fMRI) data. Ideally data quality monitoring is performed while the data are being acquired and the subject is still in the MRI scanner so that any errors can be caught early and addr...

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Autor principal: Birn, Rasmus M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnimg.2023.1072927
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description The monitoring and assessment of data quality is an essential step in the acquisition and analysis of functional MRI (fMRI) data. Ideally data quality monitoring is performed while the data are being acquired and the subject is still in the MRI scanner so that any errors can be caught early and addressed. It is also important to perform data quality assessments at multiple points in the processing pipeline. This is particularly true when analyzing datasets with large numbers of subjects, coming from multiple investigators and/or institutions. These quality control procedures should monitor not only the quality of the original and processed data, but also the accuracy and consistency of acquisition parameters. Between-site differences in acquisition parameters can guide the choice of certain processing steps (e.g., resampling from oblique orientations, spatial smoothing). Various quality control metrics can determine what subjects to exclude from the group analyses, and can also guide additional processing steps that may be necessary. This paper describes a combination of qualitative and quantitative assessments to determine the quality of fMRI data. Processing is performed using the AFNI data analysis package. Qualitative assessments include visual inspection of the structural T1-weighted and fMRI echo-planar images, functional connectivity maps, functional connectivity strength, and temporal signal-to-noise maps concatenated from all subjects into a movie format. Quantitative metrics include the acquisition parameters, statistics about the level of subject motion, temporal signal-to-noise ratio, smoothness of the data, and the average functional connectivity strength. These measures are evaluated at different steps in the processing pipeline to catch gross abnormalities in the data, and to determine deviations in acquisition parameters, the alignment to template space, the level of head motion, and other sources of noise. We also evaluate the effect of different quantitative QC cutoffs, specifically the motion censoring threshold, and the impact of bandpass filtering. These qualitative and quantitative metrics can then provide information about what subjects to exclude and what subjects to examine more closely in the analysis of large datasets.
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spelling pubmed-104062332023-08-08 Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI Birn, Rasmus M. Front Neuroimaging Neuroimaging The monitoring and assessment of data quality is an essential step in the acquisition and analysis of functional MRI (fMRI) data. Ideally data quality monitoring is performed while the data are being acquired and the subject is still in the MRI scanner so that any errors can be caught early and addressed. It is also important to perform data quality assessments at multiple points in the processing pipeline. This is particularly true when analyzing datasets with large numbers of subjects, coming from multiple investigators and/or institutions. These quality control procedures should monitor not only the quality of the original and processed data, but also the accuracy and consistency of acquisition parameters. Between-site differences in acquisition parameters can guide the choice of certain processing steps (e.g., resampling from oblique orientations, spatial smoothing). Various quality control metrics can determine what subjects to exclude from the group analyses, and can also guide additional processing steps that may be necessary. This paper describes a combination of qualitative and quantitative assessments to determine the quality of fMRI data. Processing is performed using the AFNI data analysis package. Qualitative assessments include visual inspection of the structural T1-weighted and fMRI echo-planar images, functional connectivity maps, functional connectivity strength, and temporal signal-to-noise maps concatenated from all subjects into a movie format. Quantitative metrics include the acquisition parameters, statistics about the level of subject motion, temporal signal-to-noise ratio, smoothness of the data, and the average functional connectivity strength. These measures are evaluated at different steps in the processing pipeline to catch gross abnormalities in the data, and to determine deviations in acquisition parameters, the alignment to template space, the level of head motion, and other sources of noise. We also evaluate the effect of different quantitative QC cutoffs, specifically the motion censoring threshold, and the impact of bandpass filtering. These qualitative and quantitative metrics can then provide information about what subjects to exclude and what subjects to examine more closely in the analysis of large datasets. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10406233/ /pubmed/37554646 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnimg.2023.1072927 Text en Copyright © 2023 Birn. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI
title Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI
title_full Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI
title_fullStr Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI
title_full_unstemmed Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI
title_short Quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional MRI
title_sort quality control procedures and metrics for resting-state functional mri
topic Neuroimaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554646
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