Hi Doug,
thank you for your response.
The steps in link that you provided is for a seed based functional connectivity
analysis.
I aim to compare the functional connectivity between two groups without using
seeds similar to what we do in surface based analysis between two groups to
compare volume of or cortical thickness.. Is this possible with fMRI? Or FSfast
can only run fMRI analysis depending on a seed of interest?
If FSFAST can compare functional connectivity between two groups then how can I
create then I don't need the command fcseed-sess. As a result how the contrast
will be created?
Thank you very much for any clarification.
Are you following these steps?
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastFunctionalConnectivityWalkthrough
When you make your analysis, you need to include something like -taskreg
L_Posteriorcingulate.dat
Then when you run isxconcat-sess, you include this as the contrast. See the
wiki for more details
On 8/2/17 12:34 PM, John Anderson wrote:
Dear Dr Greve,
I am new to FSFAST so I highly appreciate your response.
I have resting state fMRI data and I am following the steps as reported in
wiki. I want to study the difference in functional connectivity between two
groups
My questions are regarding motion evaluation and the contrasts.
1. The attached figure is an output of "plot-twf-sess". Given the plotted data
can we say that including run 003 is more reliable that all the other runs?
2. In the attached figure the command "plot-twf-sess" provides the maximum and
minimum motion for every run on Y axes. I am wondering if there is any way to
create a cutoff value of motion parameters for all the runs in the study were
data can be included/excluded depending on lower/upper than this cutoff?
3. I used the following commands to study the differnc ein functional
connectivity between two groups (each group has one run):
## preprocessing
preproc-sess -s $subj -stc up -fwhm 5 -surface fsaverage lh rh -mni305-2mm -fsd
bold -per-run -init-spm
### First-Level (Group) Analysis
mkanalysis-sess -analysis groupdiff-lh -surface fsaverage lh -fwhm 5 -notsk
-mcextreg -polyfit 5 -nskip 4 -fsd bold -TR 2 -per-run
mkanalysis-sess -analysis groupdiff-rh -surface fsaverage rh -fwhm 5 -notsk
-mcextreg -polyfit 5 -nskip 4 -fsd bold -TR 2 -per-run
mkanalysis-sess -analysis groupdiff-mni -mni305 2 -fwhm 5 -notsk -mcextreg
-polyfit 5 -nskip 4 -fsd bold -TR 2 -per-run
#####Analyze First Level
selxavg3-sess -s $subj -a groupdiff-lh -no-con-ok
selxavg3-sess -s $subj -a groupdiff-rh -no-con-ok
selxavg3-sess -s $subj -a groupdiff-mni -no-con-ok
Now for the next step I need to concatenate the sessions using isxconcat but
this command needs a contrast which I didn't create it in the previous step.
Given that I am looking for a differnce in the functional connectivity between
two groups how can I create the contrast for this anlaysis.
Thank you for any help and feedback!!
John
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