Optimization of rs-fMRI Pre-processing for Enhanced Signal-Noise Separation, Test-Retest Reliability, and Group Discrimination

NeuroImage

Volumn 117, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-79

  Shirer, William R ^a   Jiang, Heidi ^a,b   Price, Collin M ^a   Ng, Bernard ^a,c   Greicius, Michael D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRIA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Global signal; Noise; Preprocessing; Reliability; Resting state; Temporal filter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930631730     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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