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To do GLM for volume and surface area analysis, is there any change in commands 
in relation to cortical thickness analysis? Like some more command, or some 
other detail that must be changed (besides, of course, the flag that specifies 
the measure to be analyzed) - I'm already using permutation in the correction 
of multiple comparisons.

Many thanks!




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On 3/09/2022 15:20 PM, Douglas N. Greve wrote:


Can you just ask the question again so I don't have to sort it out myself?



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On 2/22/2022 9:15 AM, Laura Willers de Souza wrote:



Thanks so much for the explanation!



There is something different in the analysis of volume and surface area in 
relation to the analysis of cortical thickness? Like some more command, or some 
other detail that must be changed (besides, of course, the flag that specifies 
the measure to be analyzed) - I'm already using permutation in the correction 
of multiple comparisons.



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On 2/21/2022 15:20 PM, Douglas N. Greve wrote:



Yes, it is. It is confusing when you talk about area and volume since these are 
not point measures like thickness (ie, what is the volume or area of a 
vertex?). The area of a vertex is computed as the mean of the adjacent 
triangles of the vertex. The volume is the mean of the neighboring truncated 
tetrahedra. When you run mris_preproc, it will apply a jacobian correction 
(like VBM). Otherwise, it operates the same as if you had a thickness value at 
the vertex, ie, same GLM, etc. Make sure to use permutation for correction of 
multiple comparisons.



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On 2/21/2022 12:13 PM, Laura Willers de Souza wrote:

Hello FreeSurfer Developers,



I would like to know if it is correct to perform volume and surface area 
analysis using freesurfer's GLM!?

In several mailing list questions I have already seen instructions for 
performing these types of analysis. But I understand that freesurfer does 
vertex-wise analysis in the 2D surface space. So, it is not clear to me how it 
is possible to evaluate a 3D measurement, as volume, with a 2D method!?

I've also read that surface area analysis via vertex-wise analysis doesn't make 
much sense. The best would be to do ROI-based analysis. Can you explain that to 
me?

Thanks in advance!

Att,
Laura Willers de Souza

Master Student in Biochemistry

Zimmer Lab - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

- Porto Alegre/RS - Brazil
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