So what I take from this is that there are probably bilateral temporal-occipital differences that are a little bigger on the left than the right and that statistical thresholding is exaggerating the L/R differences. Assuming you had a larger sample size and the pattern stayed the same, the differences would be bilateral.
Matt. From: Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, August 10, 2018 at 1:18 PM To: "Harms, Michael" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Matt Glasser <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Winkler, Anderson (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Hello again everyone, I am sending the images once again, this time on an inflated surface (average of the entire sample). As for colors, the last time I used the third option - "percent" (which was default), but now I changed it to the second one - percentiles of the absolute value. We had 17 patients and 25 controls (the reason for this is that we had a third group as well, from a different patient cohort, and there we had 25 patients, so we matched the number of people in the control group with that other patient group). The map of the significant differences highlighted mostly occipital and temporal areas in the left hemisphere as more myelinated in the control sample, and I guess we can sort of see that in the average myelin maps as well (more red in the occipital areas, a lighter shade of purple in the superior temporal gyrus)? But, at any rate, it's not a huge effect. I'm also including the T1 and T2 protocols in the attachment. Unfortunately, I was only able to get the T1 protocol in German: "ein" means "on, "aus" means "off"; some of the parameter names are still in English even in the T1 file, for those that are in German, you can see their English translation by looking at the same spot in the T2 file. Sorry for the inconvenience! Looking forward to your feedback! Best, Darko On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Harms, Michael <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, Viewing on the inflated surface would probably be more helpful. Also, how many subjects per group? Cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. ----------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor of Psychiatry Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 South Euclid Ave<https://maps.google.com/?q=660+South+Euclid+Ave&entry=gmail&source=g>. Tel: 314-747-6173 St. Louis, MO 63110 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 2:08 PM To: "Glasser, Matthew" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "Harms, Michael" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Winkler, Anderson (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Thanks a lot for the clarifications everyone! The first two images attached are average myelin maps for controls and patients, respectively. The third image is what I hope to be the effect size map. I added the -saveglm flag to palm, and then used command -cifti-create-dense-from-template to merge the dpv_cohen files for left and right hemisphere. Let me know if this does not work. Thanks in advance for any comments! Best, Darko On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:22 AM, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What is an effect size map? An effect size map is in the case of a t-test of difference between two groups is simply the difference in the means. A standardized effect size maps is a Cohen’s d, which is helpful if you want to compare effect sizes of different measures that are not on the same scale. Looking at both the difference between means and the means themselves could be helpful in tracking down artifacts. Looking at maps of statistical significance is not helpful, despite what you see typically done in the neuroimaging literature. Matt. From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of "Harms, Michael" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:47 PM To: "Winkler, Anderson (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere A Cohen’s d map of the group difference might be helpful, but even more basic would be to just merge the individual myelin maps (-cifti-merge, or use wb_shortcuts -cifti-concatenate) and then average them (-cifti-average). Cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. ----------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor of Psychiatry Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 South Euclid Ave<https://maps.google.com/?q=660+South+Euclid+Ave&entry=gmail&source=g>. Tel: 314-747-6173 St. Louis, MO 63110 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: "Winkler, Anderson (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:02 PM To: Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Harms, Michael" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Hi Darko, The option “-saveglm” in PALM should produce Cohen’s d maps. All the best, Anderson From: Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 15:25 To: "Harms, Michael" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Hi Michael, I don't seem to have an average myelin map as an output of the analysis. Is it just something I can make by merging and averaging individual myelin maps in workbench, or should it have been the output of the GLM analysis? Sorry for this most likely really basic question. Thanks in advance! Best, Darko On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Harms, Michael <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: It might be helpful to simply see the average myelin map for each group. Do those look appropriate? Cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. ----------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor of Psychiatry Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 South Euclid Ave<https://maps.google.com/?q=660+South+Euclid+Ave&entry=gmail&source=g>. Tel: 314-747-6173 St. Louis, MO 63110 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 6:50 AM To: "Glasser, Matthew" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Hi Matt, I'm not sure what you mean by a simple effect size map. The file overlaid on the surfaces here is a file showing the difference between control and patient groups, after correction for multiple comparisons. Do I use that to make an effect size map, or something else? Best, Darko On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Can you just make a simple effect size map with + and – and no thresholding? Matt. From: Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Monday, August 6, 2018 at 12:09 PM To: Matt Glasser <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Hi Matt, here's a screenshot of an unthresholded map. Thanks in advance! Best, Darko On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thresholded maps of statistical significance are essentially uninterpretable as to the existence of artifacts. Please provide an unthresholded effect size map. Peace, Matt. From: Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, August 3, 2018 at 12:12 PM To: Matt Glasser <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Hi Matt, here's a screenshot Thanks in advance! Best, Darko On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 10:01 PM, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: How about posting some pics. Matt. From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Darko Komnenić <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 9:16 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [HCP-Users] Finding a significant difference only in one hemisphere Dear HCP experts, I ran an analysis comparing cortical myelination between patients and controls and found a significant difference between groups, but only in the left hemisphere. What's making me doubt my results is that the differences are observed in large areas of the left hemisphere, but absolutely nowhere in the right, and we have no theoretical reasons to expect such a lateralization. Do you have any ideas what might have gone wrong? I have 17 patients and 25 controls, is this maybe too small of a sample? Should I double check certain analysis steps? 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