Hi - that would be one way to do it - but slices_summary is simpler than that - 
it just thresholds the zstats at Z>6

Cheers



On 15 Sep 2014, at 07:26, Bryan Paton <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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> -- 
> Bryan Paton, PhD
> 
> 770 Blackburn Rd
> Building 220, Rm 141
> Monash University
> Clayton, VIC, 3168
> Australia
> 
> +613 990 29790
> 
> Research Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences
> EEG Lab Manager
> EEG & fMRI, TMS, TMS & EEG Liaison
> Monash Biomedical Imaging
> 770 Blackburn Rd, Clayton VIC
> 
> http://sites.google.com/site/bryanpaton


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