Hi Steve,

> That's correct: the 3D NIFTI  ICA maps are released "primarily for
> display purposes" - as you say, the cortical parts of these live on the
> cortical surface and are projected onto the 3D volumes - meaning indeed
> tha the volumes aren't "filled out" volumetrically. So when viewed on
> the surface, using the original CIFTI representation of these maps, they
> are contiguous and unthresholded.
>
> The maps as seen in the 3D NIFTI volumes supplied are also
> unthresholded, but the thumbnail PNG snapshots of these are indeed
> thresholded by slices_summary, to make viewing clearer.

Thanks that does all make sense and sorry that this is essentially an 
FSL question but... for completeness the thresholding is a result of 
voxels/nodes exceeding the 0.5 (activation/background) threshold level 
after the mixture modelling?

Thanks.

Bryan.


>
> Hope that makes sense,
> Cheers, Steve.
>
>
>
> On 15 Sep 2014, at 01:41, Bryan Paton <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> Hi HCP people,
>>
>> In the group-ICA results (the ICA parcellations), there is a volumetric
>> MN152 3D version of the ICA maps released as a Nifti file
>> (melodic_IC_sum.nii). Each of the volumes/series in the Nifti file
>> corresponds to a separate ICA map. When looking at the different
>> volumes/series in the Nifti file (which are really just the 3D
>> projections of the surface or cortical ribbon) you can see that many
>> areas of the surface have non-zero values. The example PNG files showing
>> the ICA maps projected onto an axial slice are a very handy summary but
>> they show much more discrete ICA activity compared to the raw Nifti
>> images. Were the ICA maps thresholded in some fashion in order to
>> generate the summary PNG files? What threshold (if any) was applied?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bryan.
>>
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Clayton, VIC, 3168
Australia

+613 990 29790

Research Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences
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Monash Biomedical Imaging
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