Thank you for the response!

I'm interested primarily in tal space, but potentially native as well. For tal 
space, is there no easy way to just directly transform the data into tal space 
or provide an identity matrix for the registration?

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sorry for the delay, see below

On 4/14/18 10:00 AM, Boggess, Matthew Jozsef wrote:

Hello,


I just wanted to follow up to see if anyone could help with any of my 
questions, particularly # 1.


Thank you!

Matt Boggess

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Subject: [Freesurfer] fmriprep to fsfast interface

Hello,

I've been working on taking the outputs of the fmriprep BOLD preprocessing tool 
(https://fmriprep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) and coercing them into 
the fsfast structure so that first levels can be run with mkanalysis-sess and 
selxavg3b-sess. It's been a bit trickier than anticipated and I was hoping to 
get some help verifying my current approach (attached to this email).

Question 1:

fmriprep outputs the preprocessed BOLD data in the T1 space (mni305 is not an 
option). However, the typical spatial normalization workflow uses a 
registration matrix from the bold to T1 to transform to talairach. Is there a 
way to do this transformation without having to specify a registration matrix 
given the functional data is already in the T1 space? My current approach is to 
use mri_convert with the --apply_transform flag pointing to the talairach.xfm 
registration matrix in the subject's recon folder, but I am not sure if this is 
a reasonable workaround.
Do you want to analyze it in the native T1 space or in talairach space? If 
native, then when you run mkanalysis-sess you can bypass the preprocessing by 
directly specifying the stem of the functional data you want to process 
(-funcstem). If tal space, then I think it should work out of the box (it would 
recalc the registration, but that should  be ok).

Question 2:

fsfast normally calculates the global mean value of the raw data to be used for 
intensity normalization. However, with fmriprep I only have access to the 
preprocessed data in T1 space. Would extracting the global mean value for 
intensity normalization from the preprocessed BOLD in T1 space be valid?
Yes

Question 3:

Is there a way to do first levels in the native subcortical space? If so, what 
is the filename structure expected (maybe mni305.2mm gets replaced with the 
subject name as with the surface data)? I've only seen examples transforming to 
mni305 space, but ideally an option would be to just transfer the preprocessed 
BOLD in T1 space and run first levels staying in the native T1 space.
See above.

Thanks for your help!

Matt






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