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ArticleNeurophotonics2025

Intra-subject test-retest reliability for auditory-evoked functional near-infrared spectroscopy responses: effects of systemic physiology correction.

Victoria C Sinfield, Dalton Aaker, Abigail Metzger, Yunjie Tong, Maureen J Shader

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Article in Neurophotonics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Victoria C SinfieldPurdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
Dalton AakerPurdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
Abigail MetzgerPurdue University, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
Yunjie TongPurdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6052-8913
Maureen J ShaderPurdue University, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4284-2738

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Reliable measures of functional cortical processing of speech in adult cochlear-implant recipientsR21DC021262 · NIDCD · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI Maureen Joyce Shader · 2024 to 2026
$570k
Image based modeling of biomechanical factors for risk assessment of developing periventricular white matter hyperintensitiesR21AG068962 · NIA · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI TONG, YUNJIE · 2021 to 2021
$423k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG068962NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC021262
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Abstract

Significance: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a valuable neuroimaging tool for non-invasively measuring hemodynamic changes in response to neural activity, particularly in auditory research. Although fNIRS shows strong test-retest reliability at the group level, individual-subject level reliability is often compromised by systemic noise. Aim: We investigate how correcting for systemic-physiological signals affects reliability in single-subject fNIRS data. Approach: fNIRS data were collected from one participant over 10 sessions during a passive auditory task. Using general linear modeling, six correction approaches were compared: no correction, physiology correction, short-channel correction, short-channel + physiology correction, short-channel + physiology + lag correction, and short-channel + tCCA correction. Results: Intraclass correlation coefficient analysis revealed that physiology correction yielded the highest test-retest reliability score, whereas short-channel correction had the lowest. These results align with previous findings suggesting that global systemic artifacts bolster reliability, and regressing such artifacts enhances the clarity of the observed neuronal response, as supported by visual comparisons of raw and denoised signals. Conclusions: We highlight the impact of correcting for extra-cerebral signals in single-subject auditory research and demonstrate that, while incorporating short channels in fNIRS data collection may reduce reliability, it offers a more accurate representation of the neuronal response.

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hemodynamic signal denoisingintra-subject variabilitysystemic physiologysystemic physiology augmented functional near-infrared spectroscopytest-retest reliability

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PMID40115048
PMCPMC11924667

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