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Modified MRI Anonymization (De-Facing) for Improved MEG Coregistration.

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Authors

Vaghari, Delshad 
Greve, Andrea 
Cooper, Elisa 

Abstract

Localising the sources of MEG/EEG signals often requires a structural MRI to create a head model, while ensuring reproducible scientific results requires sharing data and code. However, sharing structural MRI data often requires the face go be hidden to help protect the identity of the individuals concerned. While automated de-facing methods exist, they tend to remove the whole face, which can impair methods for coregistering the MRI data with the EEG/MEG data. We show that a new, automated de-facing method that retains the nose maintains good MRI-MEG/EEG coregistration. Importantly, behavioural data show that this "face-trimming" method does not increase levels of identification relative to a standard de-facing approach and has less effect on the automated segmentation and surface extraction sometimes used to create head models for MEG/EEG localisation. We suggest that this trimming approach could be employed for future sharing of structural MRI data, at least for those to be used in forward modelling (source reconstruction) of EEG/MEG data.

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Peer reviewed: True

Keywords

Article, deidentification, data sharing, magnetic resonance imaging, magnetoencephalography

Journal Title

Bioengineering (Basel)

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2306-5354
2306-5354

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Publisher

MDPI AG
Sponsorship
UK Medical Research Council (SUAG/046 G101400)
US National Institute on Aging (1UF1AG051197-01A1)
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FJC2019-042223-I)