On May 31, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

> 
> On 05/31/2013 01:49 AM, Joseph Dien wrote:
>> I was able to make more progress so I'm mostly good at this point but 
>> I have a remaining question:
>> 
>> I assume the contents of sig.nii.gz (which I assume are the vertex 
>> p-values) are not FWE corrected.  Is it possible to get FWE-corrected 
>> vertex p-values?  Or are only clusterwise corrections available?
> There should be something like cache.th13.abs.sig.voxel.mgh which is 
> corrected on a voxelwise basis (the th13 is just part of the name but it 
> should be the same regardless of the threshold you choose)
> doug

Excellent!  Thanks!  :)

>> 
>> Thanks again for your patience!
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> On May 30, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Joseph Dien <jdie...@mac.com 
>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Just to make sure I'm doing this right, I'm going to summarize what 
>>> I've taken away from your answers and to ask some new questions. In 
>>> order to present the results, I need two things:
>>> 
>>> 1) A set of histograms (with error bars) for each cluster figure to 
>>> show the % signal change for each of the four contrasts of interest.
>>> The cache.th20.pos.y.ocn.dat file only gives it for the condition 
>>> where the cluster was significant so I can't use that.
>>> So I could use mri_label2vol to convert cache.th20.neg.sig.ocn.annot 
>>> from the group level analysis to generate a mask for each cluster of 
>>> interest.
>>> Then I could extract the value of the voxels from each 
>>> subject's cespct file for each contrast, average them across the 
>>> cluster ROI, then average them across each subject, to generate the 
>>> histogram?
>>> This would suffice to give me the %age signal change?
>>> I would be doing these computations in Matlab using MRIread.
>>> 
>>> 2) A results table with the headings:
>>> 
>>> Cluster p (FWE corrected)
>>> Cluster size
>>> Peak Voxel p (FWE corrected)
>>> Peak Voxel T
>>> Peak Voxel Coords
>>> BA
>>> Anatomical Landmark
>>> 
>>> I can get the first two from 
>>> the cache.th20.pos/neg.sig.cluster.summary files from the group level 
>>> analysis.
>>> I can get the peak voxel coordinates from the summary files as well.
>>> I can use this to get the peak voxel p from the group 
>>> level sig.nii.gz file.  Is this FWE corrected?  If not, how can I get 
>>> this information?
>>> I can use these coordinates to get the peak voxel T by getting the 
>>> value from the group level F.nii.gz file and taking its square root. 
>>> How can I get the sign of the T statistic?
>>> I can use the Lancaster transform to convert the MNI305 peak voxel 
>>> coordinates into the Atlas coordinates to look up the putative BA and 
>>> landmarks (unless there is a better way with Freesurfer?  I'm seeing 
>>> some references to some BA labels in the forum but it doesn't look 
>>> like this is a complete set yet?).
>>> 
>>> Sorry for all these questions!  I got some nice results from FSFAST 
>>> and would like to get them written up.
>>> 
>>> Cheers!
>>> 
>>> Joe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 29, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Douglas Greve 
>>> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/29/13 10:42 PM, Joseph Dien wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On May 29, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Douglas N Greve 
>>>>> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Joe,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 05/29/2013 01:00 AM, Joseph Dien wrote:
>>>>>>> I need to extract the beta weights from a cluster identified with
>>>>>>> FS-Fast in order to compute percentage signal change.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1) I see a file called beta.nii.gz that appears to have the beta
>>>>>>> weight information.  It has a four dimensional structure and the
>>>>>>> fourth dimension appears to be the beta weights.  Is there an index
>>>>>>> somewhere as to which beta weight is which?  Or if not, how are they
>>>>>>> organized?
>>>>>> For the first level analysis, the first N beta weights correspond 
>>>>>> to the
>>>>>> N conditions in the paradigm file. The rest are nuisance variables.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ah, very good!  In order to compute the percent signal change 
>>>>> statistic (I'm following the MarsBaR approach: 
>>>>> http://marsbar.sourceforge.net/faq.html#how-is-the-percent-signal-change-calculated)
>>>>>  
>>>>> I'm also going to need the beta weights for the session mean 
>>>>> regressors.  How are the nuisance regressors organized?
>>>> You can just use the meanfunc.nii.gz. Also, each contrasts is 
>>>> computed as the simple contrast (ces) and as a percent of the 
>>>> baseline at the voxel (cespct, cesvarpct).
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2) In order to extract the cluster, it looks like I would
>>>>>>> use mri_label2vol to convert cache.th20.neg.sig.ocn.annot into a
>>>>>>> volume where the voxels are tagged with the number of the
>>>>>>> corresponding cluster.
>>>>>> Is that  from a group analysis?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, that's right.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I could then use that to generate masks to extract the information I
>>>>>>> need for each cluster from beta.nii.gz.
>>>>>> If this is from a group analysis, then there should already be a file
>>>>>> there (something.y.ocn.dat) that has a value for each subject in the
>>>>>> rows and a value for each cluster in the columns.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I see it.  Are these values already scaled as percent signal 
>>>>> change?  If so, that would be wonderful!  :)
>>>> Only if you specified it when you ran isxconcat-sess. Note that the 
>>>> "non-scaled" values are actually scaled to percent of grand mean 
>>>> intensity.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is that correct?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 3) The final information that I would need is the canonical hrf 
>>>>>>> shape
>>>>>>> generated by FSFAST for a single event.  I guess I could generate 
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> by setting up a dummy analysis run with a single event of the 
>>>>>>> desired
>>>>>>> duration and then look in the X variable in the resulting X.mat file?
>>>>>> try this
>>>>>> plot(X.runflac(1).flac.ev(2).tirf, X.runflac(1).flac.ev(2).Xirf)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Perfect!  :)
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sorry for all the questions!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Joseph Dien,
>>>>>>> Senior Research Scientist
>>>>>>> University of Maryland
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> E-mail: jdie...@mac.com <mailto:jdie...@mac.com> 
>>>>>>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>
>>>>>>> Phone: 301-226-8848
>>>>>>> Fax: 301-226-8811
>>>>>>> http://joedien.com//
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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>> Joseph Dien,
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>> University of Maryland
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>> Phone: 301-226-8848
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> -- 
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