You might need to smooth even more.

Michelle Umali wrote:
> Dear Bruce & Doug,
> Thanks I'll do the label comparison.
> I am attaching a fieldsign pic to show the irregularity of the 
> blue/red bands.  Can you suggest a method of determining V1/2/3 based 
> on the odd pattern?
>
> Thank you very much.
> Michelle
>
>>> they have to overlap unless the classification was 100% accurate 
>>> with no variability. You can just pick the label with the highest 
>>> probability at each vertex
>
> Quoting Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
>
>> can you send a pic?
>>
>> Michelle Umali wrote:
>>> Hi Doug,
>>> So I did the additional smoothing and the map looks better..  It's  
>>>  still hard to interpret though.  I was expecting alternating red  
>>> and  blue bands to signify V1/V2/V3 boundaries, but it's very  
>>> irregular  with red curves running every which way into blue  
>>> splotches.  Do you  have any suggestions how to interpret this?
>>>
>>> So then I just looked at the automatic parcellation of V1 and V2,   
>>> which seems very different from the actual fieldsign results..  The 
>>>   boundaries overlap quite a bit, which seems odd.  How should I  
>>> treat  the overlap?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> Michelle
>>>
>>>
>>> Alsouoting Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
>>>
>>>> Michelle Umali wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>> I've already smoothed by 5 during preproc-sess, so does this mean 
>>>>>  I   should do additional smoothing during fieldsign-sess step?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Try the additional one now to see if it fixes the map.
>>>>
>>>>> Also, is this the correct command to use the sphere and not the 
>>>>> patch:
>>>>> fieldsign-sess -a rtopy.self.lh -fwhm 5 -sphere -s sj09
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> yes
>>>> doug
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> Michelle
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Quoting Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Try smoothing (eg, -fwhm 5) when running fieldsign-sess. You can 
>>>>>> also
>>>>>> try using the sphere instead of the occip patch.
>>>>>> doug
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michelle Umali wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks again for your advice, the heat maps look much better. 
>>>>>>> However,
>>>>>>> they still do not visualize the continuous range of angles or
>>>>>>> eccentricities but rather divide it into two intervals such as 
>>>>>>> red vs.
>>>>>>> blue. Is there any way to adjust the color range to make it more
>>>>>>> appropriate for this kind of data?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The heat map for the field sign data still looks speckled. I 
>>>>>>> attached
>>>>>>> an image showing the heat maps for polar angle, eccentricity, and
>>>>>>> field sign, with the corresponding overlay settings.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I used 5mm smoothing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you very much,
>>>>>>> Michelle
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Quoting Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The activation looks pretty reasonable. As you point out, the 
>>>>>>>> angles
>>>>>>>> are a mess. How did you set the color scale for the angles? You 
>>>>>>>> should
>>>>>>>> leave it as a heat scale (if you're using tksurfer-sess). How 
>>>>>>>> much did
>>>>>>>> you smooth?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> doug
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Michelle Umali wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>>>>>> Attached is a pic of the significance and angle maps for  
>>>>>>>>> polar   and eccen.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>> Michelle
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Quoting Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> what does the activation look like? Does it look right? Can  
>>>>>>>>>>   you   send a pic?
>>>>>>>>>> doug
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Michelle Umali wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>>>>>>>> The z-values are consistently near or greater than 4. It  
>>>>>>>>>>> just     seems that the
>>>>>>>>>>> visualization of the angles is somehow incorrect...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Is there be anything else that I need to check?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>>> Michelle
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