Loading...
Quality control in resting-state fMRI: the benefits of visual inspection
Lepping, Rebecca J. Yeh, Hung-Wen McPherson, Brent C. Brucks, Morgan G. Sabati, Mohammad Karcher, Rainer T. Brooks, William M. Habiger, Joshua D. Papa, Vlad B. Martin, Laura E.
Lepping, Rebecca J.
Yeh, Hung-Wen
McPherson, Brent C.
Brucks, Morgan G.
Sabati, Mohammad
Karcher, Rainer T.
Brooks, William M.
Habiger, Joshua D.
Papa, Vlad B.
Martin, Laura E.
Citations
Altmetric:
Abstract
Background: A variety of quality control (QC) approaches are employed in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) to determine data quality and ultimately inclusion or exclusion of a fMRI data set in group analysis. Reliability of rs-fMRI data can be improved by censoring or “scrubbing” volumes affected by motion. While censoring preserves the integrity of participant-level data, including excessively censored data sets in group analyses may add noise. Quantitative motion-related metrics are frequently reported in the literature; however, qualitative visual inspection can sometimes catch errors or other issues that may be missed by quantitative metrics alone. In this paper, we describe our methods for performing QC of rs-fMRI data using software-generated quantitative and qualitative output and trained visual inspection.
Results: The data provided for this QC paper had relatively low motion-censoring, thus quantitative QC resulted in no exclusions. Qualitative checks of the data resulted in limited exclusions due to potential incidental findings and failed pre-processing scripts.
Conclusion: Visual inspection in addition to the review of quantitative QC metrics is an important component to ensure high quality and accuracy in rs-fMRI data analysis.
Description
Date
2023-05-04
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Collections
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Keywords
Artifacts, Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Resting state—fMRI, Reproducibility of results, Quality control
Citation
Lepping RJ, Yeh H-W, McPherson BC, Brucks MG, Sabati M, Karcher RT, Brooks WM, Habiger JD, Papa VB and Martin LE (2023) Quality control in resting-state fMRI: the benefits of visual inspection. Front. Neurosci. 17:1076824. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1076824