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Cortical source imaging of resting-state MEG with a high resolution atlas: An evaluation of methods

View ORCID ProfileLuke Tait, Ayşegül Özkan, Maciej J Szul, Jiaxiang Zhang
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.12.903302
Luke Tait
aCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Ayşegül Özkan
aCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Maciej J Szul
aCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Jiaxiang Zhang
aCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Abstract

Non-invasive functional neuroimaging of the human brain at rest can give crucial insight into the mechanisms that underpin healthy cognition and neurological disorders. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures extracranial magnetic fields originating from neuronal activity with very high temporal resolution, but requires source reconstruction to make neuroanatomical inferences from these signals. Many source reconstruction algorithms for task-based MEG data are available. However, no consensus yet exists on the optimum algorithm for resting-state data.

Here, we evaluated the performance of six commonly-used source reconstruction algorithms based on minimum-norm and beamforming estimates. In the context of human resting-state MEG, we compared the algorithms using quantitative metrics, including resolution properties of inverse solutions and explained variance in sensor-level data. Next, we proposed a data-driven approach to reduce the atlas from the Human Connectome Project’s multimodal parcellation of the human cortex. This procedure produced a reduced cortical atlas with 250 regions, optimized to match the spatial resolution and the rank of MEG data from the current generation of MEG scanners.

For both voxel-wise and parcellated source reconstructions, we showed that the eLORETA inverse algorithm had zero localization error, high spatial resolution, and superior performance in predicting sensor-level activity. Our comprehensive comparisons and recommandations can serve as a guide for choosing appropriate methodologies in future studies of resting-state MEG.

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  • https://github.com/lukewtait/evaluate_inverse_methods

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Cortical source imaging of resting-state MEG with a high resolution atlas: An evaluation of methods
Luke Tait, Ayşegül Özkan, Maciej J Szul, Jiaxiang Zhang
bioRxiv 2020.01.12.903302; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.12.903302
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Cortical source imaging of resting-state MEG with a high resolution atlas: An evaluation of methods
Luke Tait, Ayşegül Özkan, Maciej J Szul, Jiaxiang Zhang
bioRxiv 2020.01.12.903302; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.12.903302

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