title: Beyond Noise: Using Temporal ICA to Extract Meaningful Information from High-Frequency fMRI Signal Fluctuations during Rest.
abstract: Analysis of resting-state networks using fMRI usually ignores high-frequency fluctuations in the BOLD signal - be it because of low TR prohibiting the analysis of fluctuations with frequencies higher than 0.25 Hz (for a typical TR of 2 s), or because of the application of a bandpass filter (commonly restricting the signal to frequencies lower than 0.1 Hz). While the standard model of convolving neuronal activity with a hemodynamic response function suggests that the signal of interest in fMRI is characterized by slow fluctuation, it is in fact unclear whether the high-frequency dynamics of the signal consists of noise only. In this study, 10 subjects were scanned at 3 T during 6 min of rest using a multiband EPI sequence with a TR of 354 ms to critically sample fluctuations of up to 1.4 Hz. Preprocessed data were high-pass filtered to include only frequencies above 0.25 Hz, and voxelwise whole-brain temporal ICA (tICA) was used to identify consistent high-frequency signals. The resulting components include physiological background signal sources, most notably pulsation and heart-beat components, that can be specifically identified and localized with the method presented here. Perhaps more surprisingly, common resting-state networks like the default-mode network also emerge as separate tICA components. This means that high-frequency oscillations sampled with a rather T1-weighted contrast still contain specific information on these resting-state networks to consistently identify them, not consistent with the commonly held view that these networks operate on low-frequency fluctuations alone. Consequently, the use of bandpass filters in resting-state data analysis should be reconsidered, since this step eliminates potentially relevant information. Instead, more specific methods for the elimination of physiological background signals, for example by regression of physiological noise components, might prove to be viable alternatives.
authors: Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria ; MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria ; Department of Statistics and Probability Theory, Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria.
authors: Roland N
authors: RN
authors: Boubela
authors: Klaudius
authors: K
authors: Kalcher
authors: Wolfgang
authors: W
authors: Huf
authors: Claudia
authors: C
authors: Kronnerwetter
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Filzmoser
authors: Ewald
authors: E
authors: Moser
keywords: heart rate variability; resting-state fMRI; resting-state networks; temporal ICA
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