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1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Machine learning prediction of cognition from functional connectivity: Are feature weights reliable?

   Tian and Zalesky · NeuroImage · 2021

   The study tested how reliably predictive models of cognition from resting-state brain connectivity assign weights to features, and found low reliability across models, with only marginal gains from various changes.

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   1. UncheckedIn healthy young adults, models predicting cognition from brain connectivity had modest accuracy but poorly reliable feature weights, less so than models predicting sex.“Despite achieving modest prediction accuracies (r=0.2-0.4), we find that feature weight reliability is generally poor for all predictive models (ICC< 0.3), and significantly poorer than predictive models for overt biological attributes such as sex (ICC≈0.5).”
   2. Unchecked“Larger sample sizes (n=800), the Haufe transformation, non-sparse feature selection/regularization and smaller feature spaces marginally improve reliability (ICC< 0.4).”