Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Hagler DJ Jr,
Hatton S,
Cornejo MD,
Makowski C,
Fair DA,
Dick AS,
Sutherland MT,
Casey BJ,
Barch DM,
Harms MP,
Watts R,
Bjork JM,
Garavan HP,
Hilmer L,
Pung CJ,
Sicat CS,
Kuperman J,
Bartsch H,
Xue F,
Heitzeg MM,
Laird AR,
Trinh TT,
Gonzalez R,
Tapert SF,
Riedel MC,
Squeglia LM,
Hyde LW,
Rosenberg MD,
Earl EA,
Howlett KD,
Baker FC,
Soules M,
Diaz J,
de Leon OR,
Thompson WK,
Neale MC,
Herting M,
Sowell ER,
Alvarez RP,
Hawes SW,
Sanchez M,
Bodurka J,
Breslin FJ,
Morris AS,
Paulus MP,
Simmons WK,
Polimeni JR,
van der Kouwe A,
Nencka AS,
Gray KM,
Pierpaoli C,
Matochik JA,
Noronha A,
Aklin WM,
Conway K,
Glantz M,
Hoffman E,
Little R,
Lopez M,
Pariyadath V,
Weiss SR,
Wolff-Hughes DL,
DelCarmen-Wiggins R,
Feldstein Ewing SW,
Miranda-Dominguez O,
Nagel BJ,
Perrone AJ,
Sturgeon DT,
Goldstone A,
Pfefferbaum A,
Pohl KM,
Prouty D,
Uban K,
Bookheimer SY,
Dapretto M,
Galvan A,
Bagot K,
Giedd J,
Infante MA,
Jacobus J,
Patrick K,
Shilling PD,
Desikan R,
Li Y,
Sugrue L,
Banich MT,
Friedman N,
Hewitt JK,
Hopfer C,
Sakai J,
Tanabe J,
Cottler LB,
Nixon SJ,
Chang L,
Cloak C,
Ernst T,
Reeves G,
Kennedy DN,
Heeringa S,
Peltier S,
Schulenberg J,
Sripada C,
Zucker RA,
Iacono WG,
Luciana M,
Calabro FJ,
Clark DB,
Lewis DA,
Luna B,
Schirda C,
Brima T,
Foxe JJ,
Freedman EG,
Mruzek DW,
Mason MJ,
Huber R,
McGlade E,
Prescot A,
Renshaw PF,
Yurgelun-Todd DA,
Allgaier NA,
Dumas JA,
Ivanova M,
Potter A,
Florsheim P,
Larson C,
Lisdahl K,
Charness ME,
Fuemmeler B,
Hettema JM,
Maes HH,
Steinberg J,
Anokhin AP,
Glaser P,
Heath AC,
Madden PA,
Baskin-Sommers A,
Constable RT,
Grant SJ,
Dowling GJ,
Brown SA,
Jernigan TL,
Dale AM,
Neuroimage
:116091
(2019).
Abstract
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is an ongoing, nationwide study of the effects of environmental influences on behavioral and brain development in adolescents. The main objective of the study is to recruit and assess over eleven thousand 9-10-year-olds and follow them over the course of 10 years to characterize normative brain and cognitive development, the many factors that influence brain development, and the effects of those factors on mental health and other outcomes. The study employs state-of-the-art multimodal brain imaging, cognitive and clinical assessments, bioassays, and careful assessment of substance use, environment, psychopathological symptoms, and social functioning. The data is a resource of unprecedented scale and depth for studying typical and atypical development. The aim of this manuscript is to describe the baseline neuroimaging processing and subject-level analysis methods used by ABCD. Processing and analyses include modality-specific corrections for distortions and motion, brain segmentation and cortical surface reconstruction derived from structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI), analysis of brain microstructure using diffusion MRI (dMRI), task-related analysis of functional MRI (fMRI), and functional connectivity analysis of resting-state fMRI. This manuscript serves as a methodological reference for users of publicly shared neuroimaging data from the ABCD Study.