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1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Identifying and removing widespread signal deflections from fMRI data: Rethinking the global signal regression problem

   Aquino, Fulcher, Parkes, Sabaroedin and Fornito · NeuroImage · 2020

   The paper shows that widespread fMRI signal deflections are more varied than assumed, that global signal regression removes only some, and proposes DiCER, an iterative method it reports as a viable alternative.

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   1. UncheckedReordering carpet plots to show clusters reveals more varied widespread signal deflections in fMRI data than previously thought, across three datasets.“Here, using three independent datasets, we show that reordering carpet plots to emphasize cluster structure in the data reveals a greater diversity of spatially widespread signal deflections (WSDs) than previously thought.”
   2. UncheckedA new method, DiCER, removes varied widespread signal deflections from resting-state fMRI better than global signal regression on several measures.“DiCER is more effective than GSR at removing diverse WSDs as visualized in carpet plots, reduces correlations between functional connectivity and head-motion estimates, reduces inter-individual variability in global correlation structure, and results in comparable or improved identification of cano…”
   3. UncheckedIn Human Connectome Project task data, the DiCER cleaning method kept the spatial layout of expected task activation better than global signal regression did.“Using task fMRI data across 47 contrasts from 7 tasks in the Human Connectome Project, we also present evidence that DiCER is more successful than GSR in preserving the spatial structure of expected task-related activation patterns.”