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TR (Acking) Individuals Down: Exploring the Effect of Temporal Resolution in Resting‐State Functional MRI Fingerprinting

Published inHuman brain mapping, vol. 46, no. 2, e70125
Publication date2025-02-01
First online date2025-01-30
Abstract

Functional brain fingerprinting has emerged as an influential tool to quantify reliability in neuroimaging studies and to identify cognitive biomarkers in both healthy and clinical populations. Recent studies have revealed that brain fingerprints reside in the timescale-specific functional connectivity of particular brain regions. However, the impact of the acquisition's temporal resolution on fingerprinting remains unclear. In this study, we examine for the first time the reliability of functional fingerprinting derived from resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) with different whole-brain temporal resolutions (TR = 0.5, 0.7, 1, 2, and 3 s) in a cohort of 20 healthy volunteers. Our findings indicate that subject identifiability within a fixed TR is successful across different temporal resolutions, with the highest identifiability observed at TR 0.5 and 3 s (TR(s)/identifiability(%): 0.5/64; 0.7/47; 1/44; 2/44; 3/56). We discuss this observation in terms of protocol-specific effects of physiological noise aliasing. We further show that, irrespective of TR, associative brain areas make an higher contribution to subject identifiability (functional connections with highest mean ICC: within subcortical network [SUB; ICC = 0.0387], within default mode network [DMN; ICC = 0.0058]; between DMN and somato-motor [SM] network [ICC = 0.0013]; between ventral attention network [VA] and DMN [ICC = 0.0008]; between VA and SM [ICC = 0.0007]), whereas sensory-motor regions become more influential when integrating data from different TRs (functional connections with highest mean ICC: within fronto-parietal network [ICC = 0.382], within dorsal attention network [DA; ICC = 0.373]; within SUB [ICC = 0.367]; between visual network [VIS] and DA [ICC = 0.362]; within VIS [ICC = 0.358]). We conclude that functional connectivity fingerprinting derived from rs-fMRI holds significant potential for multicentric studies also employing protocols with different temporal resolutions. However, it remains crucial to consider fMRI signal's sampling rate differences in subject identifiability between data samples, in order to improve reliability and generalizability of both whole-brain and specific functional networks' results. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the practical application of functional connectivity fingerprinting, and its implications for future neuroimaging research.

Keywords
  • Brain fingerprinting
  • Brain networks
  • Functional connectivity
  • Resting‐state fMRI
  • Temporal resolution
Citation (ISO format)
CASSONE, Barbara et al. TR (Acking) Individuals Down: Exploring the Effect of Temporal Resolution in Resting‐State Functional MRI Fingerprinting. In: Human brain mapping, 2025, vol. 46, n° 2, p. e70125. doi: 10.1002/hbm.70125
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