Journal
NEUROIMAGE
Volume 205, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116210
Keywords
Resting-state fMRI; Consistency; Multisite; Longitudinal; Fingerprinting
Funding
- Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) [152548]
- CCNA
- Courtois Foundation
- Alzheimer Society of Canada
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec -Sante
- Alzheimer's Society of Canada [13-32]
- CIHR [117121]
- Fonds de recherche du Quebec -Sante/Pfizer Canada -Pfizer-FRQS Innovation Fund [25262]
- Vanier Canada Graduate Studies Doctoral scholarship
- Fonds de recherche du Quebec -Sante/Pfizer Canada Innovation Fund [25262]
- CIHR
- Sanofi
- Women's Brain Health Initiative
- Fonds de recherche du Quebec -Sante [30801]
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Studies using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) are increasingly collecting data at multiple sites in order to speed up recruitment or increase sample size. The main objective of this study was to assess the long-term consistency of rsfMRI connectivity maps derived at multiple sites and vendors using the Canadian Dementia Imaging Protocol (CDIP, www.cdip-pci.ca). Nine to 10 min of functional BOLD images were acquired from an adult cognitively healthy volunteer scanned repeatedly at 13 Canadian sites on three scanner makes (General Electric, Philips and Siemens) over the course of 2.5 years. The consistency (spatial Pearson's correlation) of rsfMRI connectivity maps for seven canonical networks ranged from 0.3 to 0.8, with a negligible effect of time, but significant site and vendor effects. We noted systematic differences in data quality (i.e. head motion, number of useable time frames, temporal signal-to-noise ratio) across vendors, which may also confound some of these results, and could not be disentangled in this sample. We also pooled the long-term longitudinal data with a single-site, short-term (1 month) data sample acquired on 26 subjects (10 scans per subject), called HNU1. Using randomly selected pairs of scans from each subject, we quantified the ability of a data-driven unsupervised cluster analysis to match two scans of the same subjects. In this fingerprinting experiment, we found that scans from the Canadian subject (Csub) could be matched with high accuracy intra-site (>95% for some networks), but that the accuracy decreased substantially for scans drawn from different sites and vendors, even falling outside of the range of accuracies observed in HNU1. Overall, our results demonstrate good multivariate stability of rsfMRI measures over several years, but substantial impact of scanning site and vendors. How detrimental these effects are will depend on the application, yet our results demonstrate that new methods for harmonizing multisite analysis represent an important area for future work.
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