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Effects of non-local diffusion on structural MRI preprocessing and default network mapping: statistical comparisons with isotropic/anisotropic diffusion.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  22066005     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Neuroimaging community usually employs spatial smoothing to denoise magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, e.g., Gaussian smoothing kernels. Such an isotropic diffusion (ISD) based smoothing is widely adopted for denoising purpose due to its easy implementation and efficient computation. Beyond these advantages, Gaussian smoothing kernels tend to blur the edges, curvature and texture of images. Researchers have proposed anisotropic diffusion (ASD) and non-local diffusion (NLD) kernels. We recently demonstrated the effect of these new filtering paradigms on preprocessing real degraded MRI images from three individual subjects. Here, to further systematically investigate the effects at a group level, we collected both structural and functional MRI data from 23 participants. We first evaluated the three smoothing strategies' impact on brain extraction, segmentation and registration. Finally, we investigated how they affect subsequent mapping of default network based on resting-state functional MRI (R-fMRI) data. Our findings suggest that NLD-based spatial smoothing maybe more effective and reliable at improving the quality of both MRI data preprocessing and default network mapping. We thus recommend NLD may become a promising method of smoothing structural MRI images of R-fMRI pipeline.
Authors:
Xi-Nian Zuo; Xiu-Xia Xing
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2011-10-31
Journal Detail:
Title:  PloS one     Volume:  6     ISSN:  1932-6203     ISO Abbreviation:  PLoS ONE     Publication Date:  2011  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-11-08     Completed Date:  2012-03-15     Revised Date:  2013-05-23    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101285081     Medline TA:  PLoS One     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  e26703     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Functional Connectome and Development, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. zuoxn@psych.ac.cn
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Anisotropy
Brain / physiology
Brain Mapping / methods*
Cluster Analysis
Diffusion
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Models, Statistical
Nerve Net / physiology*
Reproducibility of Results
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Erratum In:
PLoS One. 2011;6(11). doi:10.1371/annotation/dd83fe6c-b41e-4c8a-8430-7f2e6ea6b5de

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