Hi Donna,

Yes! I was able to successfully get past the issue of JRE halting-- I just
installed the latest JRE as Tim suggested, and added some options for
garbage collection so that it would optimize memory use. Thank you for all
your help!

I have computed one mean midthickness for all my subjects, but specifically
how do I overlay that onto an anatomical template? Would there be any
advantage of using the NIFTI volume vs. using an average volume created
from my subject pool? If so, how would I be able to generate that average
volume?

I am also a bit unclear on how to interpret and draw conclusions from the
outputs of TFCE. I understand that TFCE creates many .metric files
including one that indicates all the significant differences between the
two groups. How can I overlay that (along with the .label file) onto a
surface in Caret? (Where does the mean midthickness come into play?) Also,
how do I interpret the results written in the significance.report text
file?

Thank you so much.

Sincerely,
Eshita


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Donna Dierker
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Wow, does this mean you got past the grind-to-a-halt JRE problem?
>  Excellent!
>
> Here is a script I used to compute mean midthickness surfaces for two
> groups:
>
>
> http://brainmap.wustl.edu/pub/donna/US/UCLA/ESHITA/gen_mean_fiducials.pared.sh
> login pub
> password download
>
> But the main command is this one:
>
> caret_command -surface-average $OUTCOORD $COORD1 $COORD2 ... $COORDn $SHAPE
>
> The $SHAPE is a vertex:scalar mapping identical in format to a metric, but
> it stores the 3D variability for each vertex.
>
> You can visualize multiple mean coord files (e.g., one for each DX group)
> overlaid on the same anatomical volume (e.g., avg152T1) and click on hot
> spots on your metric, to see if the contours diverge there.  You can also
> compute the distance between the two surfaces directly on the Surface:
> Measures menu (if I recall correctly).
>
> Sounds like you're making great progress!
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Eshita Shah <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have created metric files from my TFCE statistical analysis that I
> wish to view on my own study-specific generated average coordinate file.
> How would I go about doing so? I do have the Conte69 Visualization Atlas,
> but I am not sure how to overlay the metric files generated by TFCE to
> visualize significant clusters. I would eventually like to do this overlay
> on my own average file, not the 164k averages.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Eshita
> >
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> > University of California, Los Angeles | 2014
> > B.S. Neuroscience
> > [email protected]
> >
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