Group comparison, ROI analysis and smoothing

Submitted by David on

Hi @all,

I have a question regarding the smoothing of RS fMRI data. I want to compare patiens and controls based on ALFF, fALFF,  ReHO, VHMC and also want to use the extracted AAL ROIs to analyze each subject individually for calculating cross-correlation between ROIs. Now I was wondering if it is even necessary to apply smoothing to the data at all? I was also wondering if it is necessary to apply the head motion scrubbing regressors or if ths will corrupt the calculation of ALFF, fALL asf. ? Because as I understood scrubbing removes bad time points.

Can anyone help me out here?

greetings

David

YAN Chao-Gan

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 15:08

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Hi David,

For ReHo, smoothing in preprocessing should not be performed. For the others, you can smooth in preprocessing or after the derivatives were generated.

I don't recommend scrubbing for ALFF/fALFF analyses. For the others, supplementary analysis with scrubbing can be performed to confirm the main results.

Best,

Chao-Gan

Thank you :). Is the scrubbing option in DPARSF the same as including the head motion scrubbing regressors? In other words, should I use neither of those options for ALFF/fALFF or can I use the head motion scrubbing regressors -option instead of the scrubbing option to get better data?

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Hi David,
Scrubbing regressors are spike regression -> model the bad points in a regression model.

The second scrubbing is simply delete the bad points.

I will suggest the first option.

Best,

Chao-Gan

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Commented by David (David)

Thank you :). Is the scrubbing option in DPARSF the same as including the head motion scrubbing regressors? In other words, should I use neither of those options for ALFF/fALFF or can I use the head motion scrubbing regressors -option instead of the scrubbing option to get better data?


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