Decentralized Mixed Effects Modeling in COINSTAC.

COINSTAC Federated learning Linear mixed effects Neuroimaging

Journal

Neuroinformatics
ISSN: 1559-0089
Titre abrégé: Neuroinformatics
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101142069

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Mar 2024
Historique:
accepted: 15 02 2024
medline: 1 3 2024
pubmed: 1 3 2024
entrez: 29 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Performing group analysis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data with linear mixed-effects (LME) models is challenging due to its large dimensionality and inherent multi-level covariance structure. In addition, as large-scale collaborative projects become commonplace in neuroimaging, data must increasingly be stored and analyzed from different locations. In such settings, substantial overhead can occur in terms of data transfer and coordination between participating research groups. In some cases, data cannot be pooled together due to privacy or regulatory concerns. In this work, we propose a decentralized LME model to perform a large-scale analysis of data from different collaborations without data pooling. This method is efficient as it overcomes the hurdles of data sharing and has lower bandwidth and memory requirements for analysis than the centralized modeling approach. We evaluate our model using features extracted from structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) data. Results highlight gray matter reductions in the temporal lobe/insula and medial frontal regions in schizophrenia, consistent with prior studies. Our analysis also demonstrates that decentralized LME models achieve similar performance compared to the models trained with all the data in one location. We also implement the decentralized LME approach in COINSTAC, an open source, decentralized platform for federating neuroimaging analysis, providing an easy to use tool for dissemination to the neuroimaging community.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38424371
doi: 10.1007/s12021-024-09657-7
pii: 10.1007/s12021-024-09657-7
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Subventions

Organisme : Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, United States
ID : NIH R01DA040487

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Sunitha Basodi (S)

Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Rajikha Raja (R)

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.

Harshvardhan Gazula (H)

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Javier Tomas Romero (JT)

Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Sandeep Panta (S)

Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Thomas Maullin-Sapey (T)

Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Thomas E Nichols (TE)

Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Vince D Calhoun (VD)

Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. vcalhoun@gsu.edu.

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