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. 2020 Feb 28;14:7. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2020.00007

TABLE.

Reported agreement in visual inspection of sMRI data on QC studies.

Reported visual inspection issue related to
Study QC agreement details MRI Aquisition Head motion Brain extraction Tissue segmentation Brain registration
Backhausen et al., 2016 Nb. Images 88 Image sharpness, ringing. Contrast to noise ratio (subcortical structures and gray/white matter) and susceptibility artifacts Ghosting or blurring N.R N.R N.R
Nb. Raters 2
Rating scale Include/Exclude
QC Manual Supplementary Material
Agreement ICC = 0.93
Esteban et al., 2017 Nb. Images 100 signal-to-noise ratio. Image contrast and Ringing Head motion artifacts Gray/white matter and the pial delineation Gray–white matter segmentation N.R
Nb Raters 2
Rating scale Exclude/Doubtful/Accept
QC Manual N.R
Agreement Cohen’s Kappa = 0 39
Rosen et al., 2018 Nb. Images Phasel = l00, Phase2 = 100 N.R N.R N.R N.R N.R
Nb. Raters Phase1 = 2, Phase2 = 3
Rating scale 0/1/2
QC Manual N.R
Agreement Phasel = 100%, Phase2 = 85%
Fonov et al., 2018 (preprint) Nb. Images 9693 (1000 rated twice) Effect of noise and image intensity non-uniformity N.R N.R N.R Incorrect estimates of, translation, scaling in all directions and rotation.
Nb. Raters 1
Rating scale Accept/Fail
QC Manual Dadar et al., 2018 paper
Agreement intra-rater Dice similarity = 0.96
Klapwijk et al., 2019 Nb. Images 80 N.R Ringing Division between gray/white matter and pial surface Gray–white matter segmentation N.R
Nb. Raters 5
Rating scale Excellent/Good/Doubtful/Failed
QC Manual Supplementary Material
Agreement Reliability = 0.53

QC studies since 2010 that uses sMRI and reported their inter/intra-raters agreement (Pizarro et al., 2016; Esteban et al., 2017; Dadar et al., 2018; Fonov et al., 2018; Rosen et al., 2018; Klapwijk et al., 2019). N.R: Not reported.