Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Ausaf Bari
Ok that is something I tried recently actually - to merge all the runs across all the subjects and then do a correlation with fisher-z transform. The results didn't feel right in that they didn't look like typical resting state images. That is why I wanted to double check I was doing it the right

Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Stephen Smith
Hi - One important point - you should never temporally concatenate without first demeaning the individual timeseries. Cheers. On 20 May 2014, at 10:14, Ausaf Bari aus...@gmail.com wrote: Ok that is something I tried recently actually - to merge all the runs across all the subjects and then

Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Timothy Coalson
Should you also normalize so that the standard deviations of each timeseries match? Tim On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Stephen Smith st...@fmrib.ox.ac.ukwrote: Hi - One important point - you should never temporally concatenate without first demeaning the individual timeseries. Cheers.

Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Ausaf Bari
Tim - minor correction in your cifti-math formula: I think you need the cifti-output right after the expression. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Timothy Coalson tsc...@mst.edu wrote: It isn't too hard with -cifti-reduce and -cifti-math (though it does need -select and -repeat): wb_command

Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Ausaf Bari
On a similar note, I also want to find the group average of a particular task fMRI such as the emotion task fMRI. I found a .dscalar.nii CIFTI file for each task for each subject. Can I average the .dscalar.nii files together across subjects with cifti-average since these are just CIFTI scalars

Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Ausaf Bari
I created a unix bash script that will automatically perform the demeaning on the cleaned dense time series files over multiple subject directories. Place this in your favorite scripts folder and update your .bash_profile to include the script directory in you $PATH variable. If you have any

Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Harms, Michael
You could do that if you just want a heuristic map of the group activation. But I wouldn’t use that for anything that requires meaningful statistics. To compute proper Level 3 task maps what we do currently is convert the CIFTI copes/varcopes to NIFTI, merge them into a 4D NIFTI file, and

Re: [HCP-Users] Creating Group Average Resting State fMRI

2014-05-20 Thread Ausaf Bari
Thanks. I will try that. -Ausaf On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Harms, Michael mha...@wustl.edu wrote: You could do that if you just want a heuristic map of the group activation. But I wouldn’t use that for anything that requires meaningful statistics. To compute proper Level 3 task