Removing facial features from structural MRI images biases visual quality assessment

• Céline Provins,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1668-9629

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• Élodie Savary,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Thomas Sanchez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, CIBM - Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Emeline Mullier,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, EEG and Epilepsy Unit, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jaime Barranco,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, CIBM - Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland, School of Engineering, Institute of Systems Engineering, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Sion, Switzerland, The Sense Innovation and Research Center, Lausanne and Sion, Switzerland

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• Elda Fischi-Gómez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, CIBM - Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland, Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Yasser Alemán-Gómez,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Prilly, Switzerland

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• Jonas Richiardi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, CIBM - Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Russell A. Poldrack,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Patric Hagmann,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Oscar Esteban

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: phd@oscaresteban.es

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8435-6191

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