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Evaluation of denoising strategies for task-based functional connectivity: Equalizing residual motion artifacts between rest and cognitively demanding tasks.
Mascali, Daniele; Moraschi, Marta; DiNuzzo, Mauro; Tommasin, Silvia; Fratini, Michela; Gili, Tommaso; Wise, Richard G; Mangia, Silvia; Macaluso, Emiliano; Giove, Federico.
Affiliation
  • Mascali D; MARBILab, CREF - Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, 00184, Italy.
  • Moraschi M; Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Roma, Italy.
  • DiNuzzo M; MARBILab, CREF - Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, 00184, Italy.
  • Tommasin S; Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Roma, Italy.
  • Fratini M; MARBILab, CREF - Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, 00184, Italy.
  • Gili T; Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Roma, Italy.
  • Wise RG; Dipartimento di Neuroscienze umane, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy.
  • Mangia S; Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Roma, Italy.
  • Macaluso E; Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy.
  • Giove F; Networks Unit, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy.
Hum Brain Mapp ; 42(6): 1805-1828, 2021 04 15.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33528884
In-scanner head motion represents a major confounding factor in functional connectivity studies and it raises particular concerns when motion correlates with the effect of interest. One such instance regards research focused on functional connectivity modulations induced by sustained cognitively demanding tasks. Indeed, cognitive engagement is generally associated with substantially lower in-scanner movement compared with unconstrained, or minimally constrained, conditions. Consequently, the reliability of condition-dependent changes in functional connectivity relies on effective denoising strategies. In this study, we evaluated the ability of common denoising pipelines to minimize and balance residual motion-related artifacts between resting-state and task conditions. Denoising pipelines-including realignment/tissue-based regression, PCA/ICA-based methods (aCompCor and ICA-AROMA, respectively), global signal regression, and censoring of motion-contaminated volumes-were evaluated according to a set of benchmarks designed to assess either residual artifacts or network identifiability. We found a marked heterogeneity in pipeline performance, with many approaches showing a differential efficacy between rest and task conditions. The most effective approaches included aCompCor, optimized to increase the noise prediction power of the extracted confounding signals, and global signal regression, although both strategies performed poorly in mitigating the spurious distance-dependent association between motion and connectivity. Censoring was the only approach that substantially reduced distance-dependent artifacts, yet this came at the great cost of reduced network identifiability. The implications of these findings for best practice in denoising task-based functional connectivity data, and more generally for resting-state data, are discussed.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Cognition / Cerebrum / Connectome Type of study: Guideline / Prognostic_studies Limits: Adult / Humans Language: En Journal: Hum Brain Mapp Journal subject: CEREBRO Year: 2021 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Italy Country of publication: United States

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Cognition / Cerebrum / Connectome Type of study: Guideline / Prognostic_studies Limits: Adult / Humans Language: En Journal: Hum Brain Mapp Journal subject: CEREBRO Year: 2021 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Italy Country of publication: United States