Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies.
Multicenter and multi-scanner imaging studies may be necessary to ensure sufficiently large sample sizes for developing accurate predictive models. However, multicenter studies, incorporating varying research participant characteristics, MRI scanners, and imaging acquisition protocols, may introduce...
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| author | Hyunsoo Yoon Todd J Schwedt Catherine D Chong Oyekanmi Olatunde Teresa Wu |
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| description | Multicenter and multi-scanner imaging studies may be necessary to ensure sufficiently large sample sizes for developing accurate predictive models. However, multicenter studies, incorporating varying research participant characteristics, MRI scanners, and imaging acquisition protocols, may introduce confounding factors, potentially hindering the creation of generalizable machine learning models. Models developed using one dataset may not readily apply to another, emphasizing the importance of classification model generalizability in multi-scanner and multicenter studies for producing reproducible results. This study focuses on enhancing generalizability in classifying individual migraine patients and healthy controls using brain MRI data through a data harmonization strategy. We propose identifying a 'healthy core'-a group of homogeneous healthy controls with similar characteristics-from multicenter studies. The Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) in Geodesic Flow Kernel (GFK) space is employed to compare two datasets, capturing data variabilities and facilitating the identification of this 'healthy core'. Homogeneous healthy controls play a vital role in mitigating unwanted heterogeneity, enabling the development of highly accurate classification models with improved performance on new datasets. Extensive experimental results underscore the benefits of leveraging a 'healthy core'. We utilized two datasets: one comprising 120 individuals (66 with migraine and 54 healthy controls), and another comprising 76 individuals (34 with migraine and 42 healthy controls). Notably, a homogeneous dataset derived from a cohort of healthy controls yielded a significant 25% accuracy improvement for both episodic and chronic migraineurs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8bfb8fef1bd64642b319069b2df9608b2025-08-20T03:00:58ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032024-01-011912e028830010.1371/journal.pone.0288300Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies.Hyunsoo YoonTodd J SchwedtCatherine D ChongOyekanmi OlatundeTeresa WuMulticenter and multi-scanner imaging studies may be necessary to ensure sufficiently large sample sizes for developing accurate predictive models. However, multicenter studies, incorporating varying research participant characteristics, MRI scanners, and imaging acquisition protocols, may introduce confounding factors, potentially hindering the creation of generalizable machine learning models. Models developed using one dataset may not readily apply to another, emphasizing the importance of classification model generalizability in multi-scanner and multicenter studies for producing reproducible results. This study focuses on enhancing generalizability in classifying individual migraine patients and healthy controls using brain MRI data through a data harmonization strategy. We propose identifying a 'healthy core'-a group of homogeneous healthy controls with similar characteristics-from multicenter studies. The Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) in Geodesic Flow Kernel (GFK) space is employed to compare two datasets, capturing data variabilities and facilitating the identification of this 'healthy core'. Homogeneous healthy controls play a vital role in mitigating unwanted heterogeneity, enabling the development of highly accurate classification models with improved performance on new datasets. Extensive experimental results underscore the benefits of leveraging a 'healthy core'. We utilized two datasets: one comprising 120 individuals (66 with migraine and 54 healthy controls), and another comprising 76 individuals (34 with migraine and 42 healthy controls). Notably, a homogeneous dataset derived from a cohort of healthy controls yielded a significant 25% accuracy improvement for both episodic and chronic migraineurs.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288300 |
| spellingShingle | Hyunsoo Yoon Todd J Schwedt Catherine D Chong Oyekanmi Olatunde Teresa Wu Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies. PLoS ONE |
| title | Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies. |
| title_full | Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies. |
| title_fullStr | Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies. |
| title_short | Healthy core: Harmonizing brain MRI for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies. |
| title_sort | healthy core harmonizing brain mri for supporting multicenter migraine classification studies |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288300 |
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