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Eickhoff, Simon B., Nichols, Thomas E., Laird, Angela R., Hoffstaedter, Felix, Amunts, Katrin, Fox, Peter T., Bzdok, Danilo and Eickhoff, Claudia R. (2016) Behavior, sensitivity, and power of activation likelihood estimation characterized by massive empirical simulation. NeuroImage, 137 . pp. 70-85. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.072 ISSN 1053-8119.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.072
Abstract
Given the increasing number of neuroimaging publications, the automated knowledge extraction on brain-behavior associations by quantitative meta-analyses has become a highly important and rapidly growing field of research. Among several methods to perform coordinate-based neuroimaging meta-analyses, Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) has been widely adopted. In this paper, we addressed two pressing questions related to ALE meta-analysis: i) Which thresholding method is most appropriate to perform statistical inference? ii) Which sample size, i.e., number of experiments, is needed to perform robust meta-analyses? We provided quantitative answers to these questions by simulating more than 120,000 meta-analysis datasets using empirical parameters (i.e., number of subjects, number of reported foci, distribution of activation foci) derived from the BrainMap database. This allowed to characterize the behavior of ALE analyses, to derive first power estimates for neuroimaging meta-analyses, and to thus formulate recommendations for future ALE studies. We could show as a first consequence that cluster-level family-wise error (FWE) correction represents the most appropriate method for statistical inference, while voxel-level FWE correction is valid but more conservative. In contrast, uncorrected inference and false-discovery rate correction should be avoided. As a second consequence, researchers should aim to include at least 20 experiments into an ALE meta-analysis to achieve sufficient power for moderate effects. We would like to note, though, that these calculations and recommendations are specific to ALE and may not be extrapolated to other approaches for (neuroimaging) meta-analysis.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Statistics | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Neurosciences -- Data processing , Neurosciences -- Statistics, Psychology , Medicine | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | NeuroImage | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1053-8119 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | August 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 137 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 70-85 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.072 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 August 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 May 2017 | ||||||||||
Funder: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (NIMH), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7) | ||||||||||
Grant number: | DFG, EI816/4 - 1, LA 3071/3 - 1; EI 816/6-1 (DFG), R01-MH074457 (NIMH), Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain (HGF), Grant agreement no. 604102 (FP7) | ||||||||||
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