Ah great. I could not find much of any documentation (online) for 
slices_summary, merely that it takes an input 4D series, a threshold, a 
background image and the output directory.

Thanks again.

Bryan.


On 15/09/2014 4:24 PM, Stephen Smith wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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]>
>>> <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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>>>>
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>>>>
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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
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
> Associate Director,  Oxford University FMRIB Centre
>
> FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford  OX3 9DU, UK
> +44 (0) 1865 222726  (fax 222717)
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve
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>
> Stop the cultural destruction of Tibet <http://smithinks.net>
>
>
>
>

-- 
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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