Traveling Subject-Informed Harmonization Increases Reliability of Brain Diffusion Tensor and Neurite Mapping.
Aging Dis
; 2023 Nov 15.
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ABSTRACT
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of brain has helped elucidate the microstructural changes of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Inconsistency between MRI models has hampered clinical application of dMRI-based metrics. Using harmonized dMRI data of 300 scans from 69 traveling subjects (TS) scanning the same individuals at multiple conditions with 13 MRI models and 2 protocols, the widely-used metrics such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) were evaluated before and after harmonization with a combined association test (ComBat) or TS-based general linear model (TS-GLM). Results showed that both ComBat and TS-GLM significantly reduced the effects of the MRI site, model, and protocol for diffusion metrics while maintaining the intersubject biological effects. The harmonization power of TS-GLM based on TS data model is more powerful than that of ComBat. In conclusion, our research demonstrated that although ComBat and TS-GLM harmonization approaches were effective at reducing the scanner effects of the site, model, and protocol for DTI and NODDI metrics in WM, they exhibited high retainability of biological effects. Therefore, we suggest that, after harmonizing DTI and NODDI metrics, a multisite study with large cohorts can accurately detect small pathological changes by retaining pathological effects.
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Aging Dis
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