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Area of Science:

  • Neuroimaging
  • Neuroscience
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Longitudinal diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) is increasingly used to study white matter changes.
  • Reliability of DTI measurements over time is not well understood, especially for neural plasticity research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify scan-rescan reliability of DTI-derived measures.
  • To evaluate the impact of preprocessing choices on reliability within the Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) framework.

Main Methods:

  • Acquired DTI data from 16 healthy older adults.
  • Applied the Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) approach using FSL.
  • Assessed reliability using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) across different preprocessing pipelines.

Main Results:

  • Test-retest reliability (ICC) varied from 0.524 to 0.798 based on DTI measures and preprocessing.
  • Using a common individual template and a 1-voxel median filter for smoothing improved TBSS reliability.
  • Preprocessing pipeline choices significantly affect test-retest reliability.

Conclusions:

  • Minor preprocessing decisions in DTI analysis have a substantial impact on reliability.
  • Improved reliability enhances the ability to detect subtle white matter changes in longitudinal studies.
  • Variations in data processing pipelines hinder the comparability of DTI findings across different research studies.