Evaluating Alternative Correction Methods for Multiple Comparison in Functional Neuroimaging Research

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2019
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A significant challenge for fMRI research is statistically controlling for false positives without omitting true effects. Although a number of traditional methods for multiple comparison correction exist, several alternative tools have been developed that do not rely on strict parametric assumptions, but instead implement alternative methods to correct for multiple comparisons. In this study, we evaluated three of these methods, Statistical non-Parametric Mapping (SnPM), 3DClustSim, and Threshold Free Cluster Enhancement (TFCE), by examining which method produced the most consistent outcomes even when spatially-autocorrelated noise was added to the original images. We assessed the false alarm rate and hit rate of each method after noise was applied to the original images.

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fMRI, multiple comparison correction, statistical non-parametric mapping, 3DClustSim, threshold-free cluster enhancement, RESTING-STATE FMRI, PHYSIOLOGICAL NOISE, NULL DATA, INFERENCE, EMOTION, DEFENSE, EXTENT, Neurosciences
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Han, H., Glenn, A. L., & Dawson, K. J. (2019). Evaluating Alternative Correction Methods for Multiple Comparison in Functional Neuroimaging Research. In Brain Sciences (Vol. 9, Issue 8, p. 198). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9080198