Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA.

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serval:BIB_21B837E9D1B3
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA.
Journal
NeuroImage
Author(s)
Radua J., Vieta E., Shinohara R., Kochunov P., Quidé Y., Green M.J., Weickert C.S., Weickert T., Bruggemann J., Kircher T., Nenadić I., Cairns M.J., Seal M., Schall U., Henskens F., Fullerton J.M., Mowry B., Pantelis C., Lenroot R., Cropley V., Loughland C., Scott R., Wolf D., Satterthwaite T.D., Tan Y., Sim K., Piras F., Spalletta G., Banaj N., Pomarol-Clotet E., Solanes A., Albajes-Eizagirre A., Canales-Rodríguez E.J., Sarro S., Di Giorgio A., Bertolino A., Stäblein M., Oertel V., Knöchel C., Borgwardt S., du Plessis S., Yun J.Y., Kwon J.S., Dannlowski U., Hahn T., Grotegerd D., Alloza C., Arango C., Janssen J., Díaz-Caneja C., Jiang W., Calhoun V., Ehrlich S., Yang K., Cascella N.G., Takayanagi Y., Sawa A., Tomyshev A., Lebedeva I., Kaleda V., Kirschner M., Hoschl C., Tomecek D., Skoch A., van Amelsvoort T., Bakker G., James A., Preda A., Weideman A., Stein D.J., Howells F., Uhlmann A., Temmingh H., López-Jaramillo C., Díaz-Zuluaga A., Fortea L., Martinez-Heras E., Solana E., Llufriu S., Jahanshad N., Thompson P., Turner J., van Erp T.
Working group(s)
ENIGMA Consortium collaborators
Contributor(s)
Glahn D., Pearlson G., Hong E., Krug A., Carr V., Tooney P., Cooper G., Rasser P., Michie P., Catts S., Gur R., Gur R., Yang F., Fan F., Chen J., Guo H., Tan S., Wang Z., Xiang H., Piras F., Assogna F., Salvador R., McKenna P., Bonvino A., King M., Kaiser S., Nguyen D., Pineda-Zapata J.
ISSN
1095-9572 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1053-8119
Publication state
Published
Issued date
09/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
218
Pages
116956
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
A common limitation of neuroimaging studies is their small sample sizes. To overcome this hurdle, the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium combines neuroimaging data from many institutions worldwide. However, this introduces heterogeneity due to different scanning devices and sequences. ENIGMA projects commonly address this heterogeneity with random-effects meta-analysis or mixed-effects mega-analysis. Here we tested whether the batch adjustment method, ComBat, can further reduce site-related heterogeneity and thus increase statistical power. We conducted random-effects meta-analyses, mixed-effects mega-analyses and ComBat mega-analyses to compare cortical thickness, surface area and subcortical volumes between 2897 individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and 3141 healthy controls from 33 sites. Specifically, we compared the imaging data between individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls, covarying for age and sex. The use of ComBat substantially increased the statistical significance of the findings as compared to random-effects meta-analyses. The findings were more similar when comparing ComBat with mixed-effects mega-analysis, although ComBat still slightly increased the statistical significance. ComBat also showed increased statistical power when we repeated the analyses with fewer sites. Results were nearly identical when we applied the ComBat harmonization separately for cortical thickness, cortical surface area and subcortical volumes. Therefore, we recommend applying the ComBat function to attenuate potential effects of site in ENIGMA projects and other multi-site structural imaging work. We provide easy-to-use functions in R that work even if imaging data are partially missing in some brain regions, and they can be trained with one data set and then applied to another (a requirement for some analyses such as machine learning).
Keywords
Adult, Algorithms, Cerebral Cortex/diagnostic imaging, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods, Male, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Middle Aged, Neuroimaging, Schizophrenia/diagnostic imaging, Young Adult, Brain, Cortical thickness, Gray matter, Mega-analysis, Schizophrenia, Volume
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Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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