期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 102, 期 -, 页码 294-308出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.045
关键词
Autocorrelation; Functional connectivity; Independent component analysis; Autoregressive process; Resting-state fMRI
资金
- NIH (NCRR) [U24-RR021992]
- COBRE NIGMS [P20GM103472]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations [1117056] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [1017718] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Although the impact of serial correlation (autocorrelation) in residuals of general linear models for fMRI time-series has been studied extensively, the effect of autocorrelation on functional connectivity studies has been largely neglected until recently. Some recent studies based on results from economics have questioned the conventional estimation of functional connectivity and argue that not correcting for autocorrelation in fMRI time-series results in spurious correlation coefficients. In this paper, first we assess the effect of autocorrelation on Pearson correlation coefficient through theoretical approximation and simulation. Then we present this effect on real fMRI data. To our knowledge this is the first work comprehensively investigating the effect of autocorrelation on functional connectivity estimates. Our results show that although FC values are altered, even following correction for autocorrelation, results of hypothesis testing on FC values remain very similar to those before correction. In real data we show this is true for main effects and also for group difference testing between healthy controls and schizophrenia patients. We further discuss model order selection in the context of autoregressive processes, effects of frequency filtering and propose a preprocessing pipeline for connectivity studies. (c) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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