How to find my way in resting-state fMRI methods?

Hello community,

Resting-state fMRI data seems incredibly popular. Moreover, the methods to analyze this type of data is quite numerous (Nilearn, CONN, XCD_P, …), and I am looking for guidance to select the appropriate tools for my own research.

Of course, the exact answer will depend on my research questions. But apart from that, I was wondering if there is some work (paper, review, or other) presenting the landscape of typical tools or software, including some comparison of the methods and functionalities, in particular regarding:

  1. denoising (quite a huge topic by itself…)
  2. connectivity measures (seed-based, seed-to-seed, voxel-to-voxel, parcel-to-parcel; and of course the measure itself - correlation, covariance, sparse covariance, graph theory etc) or dictionary learning and related tools,
  3. statistical inference on connectivity measures (statistics and thresholding, multiple comparison correction at participant level - FDR, RFT, …)
  4. group-level analyses (group-to-group or participant-to-group comparison, statistical inference, thresholding multiple comparison correction at group level - FDR, RFT, …).

So if you have your own preferences on all these (or related) things, I would guess it would be helpful to more than one if you could share this here :slight_smile:

Many thanks for your time and take care!

Best
Antonin

Hi @arovai,

My personal preference is to use XCP_D for atlas-based connectivity and nilearn for voxel-wise.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811913003170
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811914008702

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.23665

Best,
Steven

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