Hi folks,

Yesterday's question/replies on reporting tables of pscalar results prompted us 
to ask about a related question - I'm wondering what HCP folks recommend in 
terms of the format of tabulating/reporting straightforward "activation 
results" for DENSE data?  I couldn't find a prior listserv post that exactly 
addressed this question, nor did a couple passes through recently published 
literature using HCP methodology turn up a good example to follow.  Could be 
I'm just missing stuff...

We're finishing up analyses on a somewhat conceptually novel analysis that we 
think might be received at peer review better if we report the dense results.  
So we sorta envision reporting a table of clusters/cluster peaks where we refer 
to the 2017 parcellation paper for annotations, e.g., "Cluster 1 - Left IFSp 
(72%), Left IFJa (26%), Left IFSa (2%)".  To get there, I'm picturing a 
do-able, yet somewhat awkward combination of cluster finding calls, label file 
references, ROI definitions, finding peaks/center-of-mass, and then a whole a 
bunch of -cifti-math operations to determine overlap of clusters vs. parcels... 
The number of steps/operations that would go into this is enough that I'm just 
brought up short thinking, "Wait, am I possibly missing something..."

Before I start going down this path in coding something like this up, I thought 
I'd check two things:

A) Is there a different conceptual approach altogether that you'd recommend 
considering for showcasing dense analysis results?  Our goal ultimately is to 
simply reinforce our results are fairly compatible with the demarcations of the 
360-parcel atlas to remove a potential reviewer criticism (this analysis is 
some weird stuff... using spontaneous fluctuations of electrodermal signals as 
event-onsets for fMRI timeseries analyses... amazingly, it seemed to work, with 
pretty interesting results that mirror our connectivity analyses on the same 
data).  But if HCP has an entirely different approach to tabulating/summarizing 
dense results, we'd welcome being brought up-to-speed.

B) The lazy part of me wonders... Has someone already coded up workbench 
function call or even a script for the various wb_commands needed that might 
already do this sort of thing with dense data?  Again, this seems so 
meat-and-potatoes for fMRI that we don't want to re-invent the wheel here.

Thanks,
Mike


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