Cortical Thickness Estimates Across Processing Pipelines: A Technical Note on Divergence

Authors

  • Susannah Dunsterville Centre for Neuroimaging, Cuillin Laboratory for Systems Neuroscience, Portree, United Kingdom Author
  • Jaanus-Rein Aaresild Centre for Research Methods, Raplamaa Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Rapla, Estonia Author
  • Arnvid Fjellanger Department of Statistical Methods, Trollheimen Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Oppdal, Norway Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22678032

Keywords:

Cortical Thickness Estimates Across Processing Pipelines; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Cortical Thickness Estimates Across Processing Pipelines has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for cortical thickness estimates across processing pipelines, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than
either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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2024-05-28