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Hi Doug,
Thank you for the advice! I tried plugging the output of aparc2stats into 
mri_glmfit both in tandem with —y (mri_preproc_output).mgh as well as on its 
own and got an error message from mri_reshape saying the elements cannot be 
changed nv1=163842, nv1=2. This was an iteration of the table with one data 
column for the thickness of an ROI, however, I also got the same error with the 
full table. This is also the same table we used in SPSS for a linear regression 
there. 

Terminal inputs:
mri_glmfit —y lh.thickness.inflammatory.10.mgh —fsgd inflammatory_markers.fsgd 
—C Inflammatory_group.mtx —C group_inflammatory.mtx —surf fsaverage —table 
entorhinal_table.dat —label entorhinal.label —glmdir 
Inflammatory_entorhinal.lh.thickness.10.glmdir 

mri_glmfit —fsgd inflammatory_markers.fsgd —C Inflammatory_group.mtx —C 
group_inflammatory.mtx —surf fsaverage —table aparc_table.dat —label 
entorhinal.label —glmdir Inflammatory_entorhinal.lh.thickness.10.glmdir 

Thanks!
Erin

> On Feb 18, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Erin Moe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Freesurfer experts,
> I’ve been running mri_glmfit and QDEC to investigate the effect of 
> inflammatory markers on cortical thickness and don’t really get much. 
> However, when I extract the cortical thickness values (with 
> aparc/asegstats2table) and run a linear regression with those same 
> inflammatory markers in SPSS, I get several significant results. I’m assuming 
> it might be due to me setting up the QDEC/mri_glmfit analysis wrong. 
> 
> For QDEC I have a two column .dat file with the subject IDs in the FSID 
> column and the inflammatory markers for each participant in the other column 
> and running the QDEC thickness analysis on that and I don’t get much in terms 
> of results.
> 
> For mri_glmfit I used an FSGD file set up just like the .dat file for QDEC 
> with the exception of formatting. However, we wanted to constrain the 
> analysis to an ROI (entorhinal in this case), I ran mris_preproc with the 
> following command: 
> mris_preproc —fsgd inflammatory_markers.fsgd —cache-in 
> thickness.fwhm10.fsaverage —target fsaverage —hemi lh —out 
> lh.thickness.inflammatory.10.mgh 
> 
> Then fed that output into mri_glmfit as: 
> mri_glmfit —y lh.thickness.inflammatory.10.mgh —fsgd 
> inflammatory_markers.fsgd —C Inflammatory_group.mtx —C group_inflammatory.mtx 
> —surf fsaverage —label entorhinal.label —glmdir 
> Inflammatory_entorhinal.lh.thickness.10.glmdir 
> The results from this look the same as the QDEC analysis but just masked out 
> for the entorhinal ROI. So, to constrain the analysis to the ROI, I ran a 
> Monte Carlo correction with mri_surfcluster.
> 
> So a few questions:
> Would running mri_surfcluster on the sig.mgh output from the mri_glmfit 
> analysis actually constrain the analysis to the ROI specified? 
> 
> How can I get my results to match that of what I’m seeing in SPSS? 
> 
> Is my analysis set up correctly for what I’m trying to do?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance for your patience with this lengthy inquiry. 
> 
> Best,
> Erin
> 
> 
> 
> 


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