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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.
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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.
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2023-05-04
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Artifacts, Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Resting state—fMRI, Reproducibility of results, Quality control
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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