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Hi Freesurfer Developers,

I'm using FS v7.2 to conduct along-tract statistics using trac-all -stat,
and I was wondering how to best visualize and interpret the results of the
cluster-wise correction in freeview.

I referenced this page (
https://secure-web.cisco.com/1Wn0Jo3ZhV2QIp8R6uvzRorN2zYdL69NgfN7PXt5cTq22hhH3aS9QimeQbmh38pVCMpxzQwEXmO6rwHLlmcziA-EF5XkZzaQahAFzMM-xXafAUgB7EBLdEFxK5Cf-SDIMN4gepn6yup_RurCijHEfIu5Xa6mZ_Pk5Xkc9nvxfOyv8F69rQhxcAJdlfvullsSK7YZwZ8IFo6N74uk4nrsBWampKmvI3dZyAuF6Qem5_4sc6IYkl_56riDKVZ4s_tTEI9g7zcNC_sWUK0F7OMTP4LxNLekjnocxOBXIQ7MuwzC1pUWo1gzw-fHUFqfJzBDgGGLGdU84j0lOuyx5QorP0Q/https%3A%2F%2Fsurfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu%2Ffswiki%2FFsTutorial%2FTraculaStatistics%23Visualizingresultsfromstatisticalanalysesalongapathway),
which describes how to do this for uncorrected statistics, and used
dmri_trk2trk to embed the *perm.th13.abs.sig.cluster.mgh files produced by
mri_glmfit-sim into the template .trk files (--in
$FREESURFER_HOME/trctrain/hcp/syn/"$tract".display.trk).

However, I'm noticing inconsistencies in the location along the tract of
significant clusters between the projection of the uncorrected statistics
in freeview, projection of the corrected statistics in freeview, and the
cluster location as indicated by the cluster summary file
(*perm.th13.abs.sig.cluster.summary.txt).

I've attached the cluster summary file for FA in the rh.cst tract as an
example. My understanding is that for pathways with superior-inferior
orientation, points along the tract are ordered from superior to inferior.
Given that this significant cluster is at a VoxX of 68 (of 80 total points
along the tract), I would have thought that this cluster would be located
at a more inferior position along the right cst -- instead, the cluster
appears to be located superiorly. Similar to this FS user (
https://secure-web.cisco.com/1W2wWzty4LvZ-noLr4zvkjNMq5qwway38c9kYyxk8c8a4AoIQuxySOQwiqND_VWT6SsWWSgAQYiw6izF1Xr-Y7kVM5mis2O1RSe3BOA7u4JGkGg5iN_doXYKGSxcPvcsYb1M86VDFdrhwu4DCtmLZqJiW4P3vdLPEyZWsWsV5BFNStVqLGmIk4eqV1dZYGqod6OG_OoNhEkZ8lkI6V3exnx8PPbBBMfhe8fVG9JEbGI83yfWrxhO_FYtC51gIfYpyrT5ZCMedL6_eHtWNySTwuYTOst03Fujn6xYUrBvJgzNPHduh0ckdhHWzvx7LguLxieRhJPs-y4g8oqhPhLi76A/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Ffreesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu%2Fmsg73534.html),
I'm wondering: (1) Am I missing something regarding this embedding process?
(2) Is it appropriate to embed the *perm.th13.abs.sig.cluster.mgh file to
visualize the results of the cluster-wise correction?

Please let me know if there is any other information you'd like me to
provide. Any thoughts on where I might be going wrong would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you!

Best,
Makenna

*Makenna McGill *(she/her)
Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin

Attachment: perm.th13.abs.sig.cluster.summary
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