Journal
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
Volume 43, Issue 7, Pages 2109-2120Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25723
Keywords
face-emotion; fMRI; intraclass correlation coefficient; reliability; test-retest
Funding
- Devision of Intramural Research Programs NIMH [ZIHMH002781]
- National Institute of Mental Health [K23MH113731]
- Pediatric Mental Health Institute at Children's Hospital Colorado, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine
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Assessing and improving test-retest reliability is critical for addressing concerns about replicability in fMRI studies. This study examined the influence of scanner and task-related factors on the reliability of neural response to face-emotion viewing. The results showed that activated regions had higher reliability than non-activated regions, and contrasts involving distinct visual stimuli and cognitive demands had greater reliability.
Assessing and improving test-retest reliability is critical to efforts to address concerns about replicability of task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging. The current study uses two statistical approaches to examine how scanner and task-related factors influence reliability of neural response to face-emotion viewing. Forty healthy adult participants completed two face-emotion paradigms at up to three scanning sessions across two scanners of the same build over approximately 2 months. We examined reliability across the main task contrasts using Bayesian linear mixed-effects models performed voxel-wise across the brain. We also used a novel Bayesian hierarchical model across a predefined whole-brain parcellation scheme and subcortical anatomical regions. Scanner differences accounted for minimal variance in temporal signal-to-noise ratio and task contrast maps. Regions activated during task at the group level showed higher reliability relative to regions not activated significantly at the group level. Greater reliability was found for contrasts involving conditions with clearly distinct visual stimuli and associated cognitive demands (e.g., face vs. nonface discrimination) compared to conditions with more similar demands (e.g., angry vs. happy face discrimination). Voxel-wise reliability estimates tended to be higher than those based on predefined anatomical regions. This work informs attempts to improve reliability in the context of task activation patterns and specific task contrasts. Our study provides a new method to estimate reliability across a large number of regions of interest and can inform researchers' selection of task conditions and analytic contrasts.
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