Hi All,

I am trying to do some seed to seed functional connectivity calculations that 
replicate my analysis design in fsfast. I know FreeSurfer 6 has the fcseedcor 
function, but it appears that this requires a low pass filter, which is not a 
part of our processing stream. Also I don't think the fcseedcor function has 
any detrending which is a part of our analysis.

I am putting together a Matlab script to do this for me, and want to be sure 
that the steps are equivalent.

This is my normal mkanalysis-sess command:

mkanalysis-sess -analysis targ.2cm.rh -surface fsaverage rh -fwhm 6 -notask 
-taskreg target_2cm.dat 1 -nuisreg vcsf.dat 5 -nuisreg wm.dat 5 -mcextreg 
-polyfit 5 -fsd rest -TR 3 -per-run -hpf .01 -tpexclude tpe_file -nuisreg 
global.waveform.dat 1

This is what I am doing in Matlab:

-First, I apply a polynomial detrending to all the seeds and nuisance 
regressors (first five components from vcsf and wm, first three from mcextreg, 
and one component of global signal), while ignoring any bad timepoints.
-Second, I make all signals evenly sampled again by applying a linear 
interpolation over missing timepoints for both the seeds and nuisance 
regressors.
-Third, I apply a high order high pass filter.
-Fourth, I get rid of all the timepoints that were generated from the linear 
interpolation (now post filtering).
-Fifth, I use a glm to regress all the nuisance variables from the ROI signals.
-Sixth compute the correlation coefficients between seeds using the residuals 
from the previous step.

How similar is that to what is done in fsfast? Any tips on what to change?

Thanks!
Erik
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