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Preprocessing strategy influences graph‐based exploration of altered functional networks in major depression

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Title
Preprocessing strategy influences graph‐based exploration of altered functional networks in major depression
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Human Brain Mapping, February 2016
DOI 10.1002/hbm.23111
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Viola Borchardt, Anton Richard Lord, Meng Li, Johan van der Meer, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Bernhard Bogerts, Michael Breakspear, Martin Walter

Abstract

Resting-state fMRI studies have gained widespread use in exploratory studies of neuropsychiatric disorders. Graph metrics derived from whole brain functional connectivity studies have been used to reveal disease-related variations in many neuropsychiatric disorders including major depression (MDD). These techniques show promise in developing diagnostics for these often difficult to identify disorders. However, the analysis of resting-state datasets is increasingly beset by a myriad of approaches and methods, each with underlying assumptions. Choosing the most appropriate preprocessing parameters a priori is difficult. Nevertheless, the specific methodological choice influences graph-theoretical network topologies as well as regional metrics. The aim of this study was to systematically compare different preprocessing strategies by evaluating their influence on group differences between healthy participants (HC) and depressive patients. We thus investigated the effects of common preprocessing variants, including global mean-signal regression (GMR), temporal filtering, detrending, and network sparsity on group differences between brain networks of HC and MDD patients measured by global and nodal graph theoretical metrics. Occurrence of group differences in global metrics was absent in the majority of tested preprocessing variants, but in local graph metrics it is sparse, variable, and highly dependent on the combination of preprocessing variant and sparsity threshold. Sparsity thresholds between 16 and 22% were shown to have the greatest potential to reveal differences between HC and MDD patients in global and local network metrics. Our study offers an overview of consequences of methodological decisions and which neurobiological characteristics of MDD they implicate, adding further caution to this rapidly growing field. Hum Brain Mapp, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Country Count As %
Hong Kong 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 72 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 26%
Researcher 17 22%
Student > Master 14 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 5%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 9 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 20 26%
Psychology 12 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Computer Science 3 4%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 18 24%
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