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Clarifying and extending permutation tests on brain map correspondence through mixed-effects modeling.

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  1. [1] § Brain Map Correspondence in HCP Data › Correspondence between subject-specific brain maps ↔ python-implementation/bootstrap_inference/utils.py, lines 84–122 · score 0.61 · confidence intervals, cross terms, interaction subject, CI, residuals, bootstrap
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Authors: Qiaochu Wang1, Lingyi Peng2, Thomas E Nichols3, Xu Zou1, Yaotian Wang4, Jie He1, Yuexin Zhang1, Dana L Tudorascu2, Diego Szczupak5, Lauren Schaeffer5, Emily S Rothwell5, Laurel Dieckhaus5, Stacey J Sukoff Rizzo5, Gregory W Carter6, Afonso C Silva5, Tingting Zhang1
ORCID iDs: Qiaochu Wang, Thomas E Nichols, Xu Zou, Jie He, Yuexin Zhang, Diego Szczupak, Emily S Rothwell, Laurel Dieckhaus, Stacey J Sukoff Rizzo, Gregory W Carter, Afonso C Silva, Tingting Zhang
  1. Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
  2. Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
  3. Oxford Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  4. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
  5. Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
  6. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, United States
Institutions: University of Pittsburgh (United States); University of Oxford (United Kingdom); Emory University (United States); Jackson Laboratory (United States)
Journal: Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), volume 4, article IMAG.a.1350
Dates: received 29 November 2025; accepted 30 July 2026; published online 8 September 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY
Identifiers: DOI 10.1162/imag.a.1350 · PMID 42719771 · PMCID PMC13556793 · OpenAlex W7202155274
Open access: diamond, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: code verified
Categories: structural MRI / diffusion (modality), human (organism), computational (subfield)
Methods: Connectivity, Statistics, fMRI & imaging, Preprocessing
Keywords: brain map correspondence, mixed-effects models, permutation tests, bootstrapping
MeSH: Brain*, Brain Mapping*, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*, Computer Simulation, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (* major topic)
Topic: Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience), according to OpenAlex
Funding: NIA NIH HHS (U19 AG074866, P01 AG025204, R01 AG063752); NIMH NIH HHS (U54 MH091657); NIH HHS (S10 OD028483)
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 50 references in the paper
Research resources: RRID:SCR_022735

Abstract

Permutation-based methods such as the spin test, Brain Surrogate Maps with Autocorrelated Spatial Heterogeneity (BrainSMASH), and the simple permutation-based intermodal correspondence (SPICE) test are widely used to assess correspondence between brain maps while accounting for their spatial autocorrelation. However, these methods define and evaluate correspondence in fundamentally different ways, making their results difficult to compare or interpret jointly. We address these limitations by introducing a two-factor mixed-effects model that decomposes brain map variability into components arising from inter-subject variability and spatial variability across brain locations. This formulation provides a principled way to characterize distinct sources of variability in brain maps and to formally link each correspondence test to the specific component it targets. Within this framework, we further provide the analytical expressions of the null distributions of the spin test, BrainSMASH, and SPICE in terms of model parameters. This unified framework clarifies the fundamental distinctions among the permutation tests, reveals their implicit assumptions, and provides a principled way to compare and interpret their results. Beyond clarifying existing methods, the modeling framework naturally motivates a bootstrap-based method that enables simultaneous inference of multiple forms of correspondence arising from different components of brain map variability. Through extensive simulations and empirical analyses of both structural (cortical thickness vs. sulcal depth) and functional (language vs. motor contrast) brain maps, we demonstrate that the bootstrap-based method achieves well-calibrated type I error, substantially higher statistical power, and provides a robust and comprehensive characterization of different forms of brain map correspondence.

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Wang, Q., Peng, L., Nichols, T. E., Zou, X., Wang, Y., He, J., Zhang, Y., Tudorascu, D. L., Szczupak, D., Schaeffer, L., Rothwell, E. S., Dieckhaus, L., Sukoff Rizzo, S. J., Carter, G. W., Silva, A. C., & Zhang, T. (2026). Clarifying and extending permutation tests on brain map correspondence through mixed-effects modeling. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 4, IMAG.a.1350. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag.a.1350

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@article{wang2026clarifying,
author = {Wang, Qiaochu and Peng, Lingyi and Nichols, Thomas E and Zou, Xu and Wang, Yaotian and He, Jie and Zhang, Yuexin and Tudorascu, Dana L and Szczupak, Diego and Schaeffer, Lauren and Rothwell, Emily S and Dieckhaus, Laurel and Sukoff Rizzo, Stacey J and Carter, Gregory W and Silva, Afonso C and Zhang, Tingting},
title = {{Clarifying and extending permutation tests on brain map correspondence through mixed-effects modeling}},
journal = {Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
volume = {4},
pages = {IMAG.a.1350},
publisher = {MIT Press},
issn = {2837-6056},
doi = {10.1162/imag.a.1350},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1162/imag.a.1350},
pmid = {42719771},
pmcid = {PMC13556793}
}

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TI - Clarifying and extending permutation tests on brain map correspondence through mixed-effects modeling
T2 - Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
J2 - Imaging Neurosci (Camb)
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