The nuisance of nuisance regression: Spectral misspecification in a common approach to resting-state fMRI preprocessing reintroduces noise and obscures functional connectivity

NeuroImage

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 208-225

  Hallquist, Michael N ^a,b,c   Hwang, Kai ^a,c   Luna, Beatriz ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Bandpass filtering; Nuisance regression; Preprocessing; Resting state fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; DIGITAL FILTERING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SCHOOL CHILD;

ARTIFACTS; BANDPASS FILTERING; NUISANCE REGRESSION; PREPROCESSING; RESTING-STATE FMRI;

ADOLESCENT; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84879724953     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.116     Document Type: Article

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