[Freesurfer] Label to Nii Conversion

2015-04-01 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I have a label file on the surface, but want to be able to use it to extract surface data that is already in nifti format (dimensions: [2737 1 6]). Is there a way to convert a label to nifti? Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurolo

Re: [Freesurfer] finding local extrema in surface data

2015-06-29 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Not the fastest approach, but for each vertex, you could find the neighbors and then test if the vertex is the maximum. There are matlab functions for getting the list of neighboring vertices. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurolo

Re: [Freesurfer] Dynamic causal modeling

2015-07-15 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
SPM does not make any distinction about the source of the data. For SPM to work, all you need is .nii files for your data and you'd need a VOI.mat that corresponds to the .nii file size. If you take a look at the gPPI toolbox on the NITRC website, there are commands/tools that convert FS-FAST 1st

Re: [Freesurfer] help with using optseq2

2015-07-17 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
This type of design is not suitable for optseq2. Furthermore, you only have 100s of task and almost 300s of scan time. This will lead to lots of empty space. You really need more than 2 conditions per event type. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, D

Re: [Freesurfer] registering NHP data

2015-08-05 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
so much, > Mia > > > > > ---------- > *From:* MCLAREN, Donald [mclaren.don...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 04, 2015 9:36 AM > *To:* Borzello, Mia > *Subject:* Re: [Freesurfer] registering NHP data > > Mia, > > You could use the 112RM-SL atlas for nor

[Freesurfer] Fwd: Brainhack 2013 Stipend Program (DEADLINE TO APPLY: 11:59PM EST SEPTEMBER 27, 2013)

2013-09-20 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear Colleagues, The Neurobureau is excited to announce a stipend program for Brainhack 2013 (October 23-26 in Sevres, France (just outside of Paris). The stipend program was created following a generous grant from Siemens Healthcare to assis

[Freesurfer] Fwd: Brainhack 2013 Stipend Program (DEADLINE TO APPLY: 11:59PM EST SEPTEMBER 27, 2013)

2013-09-26 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear Colleagues, The Neurobureau is excited to announce a stipend program for Brainhack 2013. The stipend program was created following a generous grant from Siemens Healthcare to assist young investigators in attending Brainhack 2013. Without their support, the stipend program would not exist. T

[Freesurfer] Brainhack Registration and Payment

2013-09-27 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Brainhack.org is currently offline due to technical issues. We hope to have the website back up and running shortly. Here are the details to register (if you have not already) and to complete the payment process (if you pre-registered). The cost for the entire workshop and lodging for 4 nights is

[Freesurfer] Fwd: Brainhack 2013 Stipend Program (DEADLINE TO APPLY: 11:59PM EST TONIGHT)

2013-09-27 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear Colleagues, The Neurobureau is excited to announce a stipend program for Brainhack 2013. The stipend program was created following a generous grant from Siemens Healthcare to assist young investigators in attending Brainhack 2013. Without their support, the stipend program would not exist. T

[Freesurfer] UPDATES on Brainhack 2013 (including stipend application extension)

2013-10-01 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear All, Brainhack 2013 will be taking place in just under a month outside of Paris, France. A welcome reception will be held on the evening of October 23rd to be followed by the hackathon on October 24th, 25th, and 26th. Brainhack 2013 will be highlighted by "Ignite" talks by: - *Yves Burno

[Freesurfer] Brainhack 2013 Stipend Program (DEADLINE TO APPLY: 11:59PM EST OCTOBER 3rd, 2013)

2013-10-02 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear Colleagues, The Neurobureau is excited to announce a stipend program for Brainhack 2013. The stipend program was created following a generous grant from Siemens Healthcare to assist young investigators in attending Brainhack 2013. Without their support, the stipend program would not exist. T

Re: [Freesurfer] Power analysis for Qdec

2013-10-29 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
One comment on power calculations. You cannot do the power calculations after you have completed the study. Any reviewer/referee asking you to compute the power should be politely informed that post-hoc power analyses are not valid and are biased (because you would be computing the power of the obs

Re: [Freesurfer] Power analysis for Qdec

2013-10-29 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
. On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Douglas N Greve wrote: > Good point Donald. Where can one get G*Power? > doug > > > > On 10/29/2013 10:38 AM, MCLAREN, Donald wrote: > >> One comment on power calculations. You cannot do the power calculations >> after you have

Re: [Freesurfer] A question regarding DODS or DOSS

2014-01-30 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
You might also want to read about mean centering and same or different slopes here: *http://mumford *.fmripower.org/*mean*_*centering*/ Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Ha

[Freesurfer] gPPI Toolbox Version 13.1 for SPM has now been released

2014-04-24 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Version 13.1 of the gPPI toolbox (previously released versions were 7.12 and 13) is now available at http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gppi Version 13.1 now supports task-models from FSFAST and can read the model structure directly from your FSFAST analysis. Version 13.1 now support robust weighted l

Re: [Freesurfer] comparing two conditions with disproportionate number of trials

2014-05-05 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
For the contrast A>B, the number of trials is not considered. When you contrast A and B, you are assessing the mean response to trials of condition A to the mean response to trials of condition B. You wouldn't want to weight this by the number of trials as then the contrast would not make sense. T

Re: [Freesurfer] Questions about the correction methods in Surfstat

2015-10-06 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
>The output figure is attached. In the colorbar of the figure, left represents cluster corrected p value and right one represents the vertex >corrected p value, right? Right. >So, the warm color region in the figure can be survived by the RFT vertex correction, and the cool color region in the fig

Re: [Freesurfer] Checking optseq efficiency of a custom par file.

2015-11-24 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
You need to build a wrapper that creates all possible combinations of the three sets of par files. Then use this to build a design matrix for each one. Then estimate the efficiency (eff) and VRF (vrf) for the contrasts of interest. M = C*inv(X'*X)*C'; eff = 1/trace(M); vrf = 1/mean(diag(

[Freesurfer] Minc File Error

2015-12-09 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Zeke and others, I recently installed Freesurfer v6 ( freesurfer-Darwin-OSX-stable-v6-beta-20151015.dmg , MacOS 10.9.5, XQuartz 2.7.8), and Freeview always closes whenever I try to op

Re: [Freesurfer] GLM - covariate question

2016-05-09 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Pedro, Instead of saying that you want to include the covariate in the analysis, it's better to consider why you want to include the covariate and how it changes the interpretation. You don't necessarily want to regress out covariates, especially when the covariate is different between groups. DO

Re: [Freesurfer] help with contrasts

2013-03-22 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
separate models. If you think this might be a valid question, I'd consult a statistician - which I am not. > > Laura. > > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:51 PM, MCLAREN, Donald > wrote: > >> Please include the list of the column labels. >> >> Best Regards, Don

Re: [Freesurfer] help with contrasts

2013-03-22 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
del and run > separate GLMs within each group, as you suggested - I just want to make > sure I am understanding the weights correctly first... > > LT > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:23 AM, MCLAREN, Donald > wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Laura M

Re: [Freesurfer] Correlation with cortical thickness

2013-03-27 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Here is a link describing the difference in the methods: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00618.x/asset/j.1365-2656.2002.00618.x.pdf?v=1&t=heswinwb&s=dce1a222e16e861d105340fd919c65fb43dc39ac Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fe

Re: [Freesurfer] Correlation with cortical thickness

2013-03-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail unintentionally, please immediately notify the sender via telephone at (773) 406-2464 or email. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:46 PM, MCLAREN, Donald wrote: > Here is a link describing the difference in the methods: > > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

Re: [Freesurfer] Linear Mixed modal

2013-03-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Contrast creation is the same in all programs. It is based on the design matrix. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GRECC, Bedford VA We

Re: [Freesurfer] contrast matrix

2013-03-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
st that you ever want to make. > > is correct? thank you very much! > > look forward for your reply! > > > Bo Xiang > > > > > > > At 2012-11-21 04:07:37,"MCLAREN, Donald" > wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Douglas N Greve &

Re: [Freesurfer] slice timing

2013-03-29 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
If you are using ASL, you do not want to use Slice timing. You must compute the CBF maps and keep the slice timing intact. Removing the time delay between slices will lead to the wrong CBF values as the CBF equations have the time delay in the equation. Best Regards, Donald McLaren ==

Re: [Freesurfer] slice timing

2013-04-01 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
gt; Thanks, > > > Meryem > > > Message: 11 > Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:40:42 -0400 > From: "MCLAREN, Donald" > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] slice timing > To: Douglas N Greve > Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > Message-ID: > prtm2htz12fn74vtp2

Re: [Freesurfer] How to get surface-based AAL template {Disarmed}

2013-04-01 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I believe that someone has created the AAL labels on the Colin 27 brain. These should be able to be transformed to the fsaverage brain. I've contacted the person who said they had the files and will let you know if I get the files and am able to transform the files. Best Regards, Donald McLaren =

Re: [Freesurfer] Permutation doubts

2013-04-04 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
An alternative approach would be to use bootstrapping to determine the significance as was done by Gross et al. 2012. *Cortical signatures of cognition and their relationship to Alzheimer's disease.* Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of

[Freesurfer] Fwd: [FSL] Neuro Bureau Announces the BRAIN-ART COMPETITION 2013

2013-04-08 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
In order to recognize the beauty and creativity of artistic renderings emerging from the neuroimaging community, we are launching the third annual Brain-Art Competition. Countless hours are devoted to the creation of informative visualizations for communicating neuroscientific findings. The Brain-

[Freesurfer] T2/FLAIR images longitudinal stream

2013-04-30 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Martin and others, As the T2/FLAIR image is only available for cross-sectional processing; if we are doing a longitudinal study, is there any advantage of using the T2/FLAIR image? Will the improved pial surface can transferred to the base and long surfaces? Best Regards, Donald McLaren =

Re: [Freesurfer] p-value visualization

2013-05-24 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Here is an example regionaldata file. (File with script and dependency is being held for moderator approval) Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Research

[Freesurfer] Mean Regional Thickness

2013-06-11 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Has anyone published the mean cortical thickness of healthy older adults for all the Freesurfer ROI? I've only been able to find papers that report a of subset of the ROIs. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts Ge

[Freesurfer] Cross-sectional v5.1 vs. Longitudinal v4.4

2013-06-11 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear All, If I had to choose between longitudinal processing v4.4 or cross-sectional processing v5.1 for analyzing longitudinal data, what processing stream should I choose? Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts

Re: [Freesurfer] Differences on baseline volumes within subject cross-sectional vs longitudinal processing

2013-06-26 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
This raises an interesting question. Given that the longitudinal process is more reliable, if we collect 2 scans on the same day, should we average those scans and then submit to Freesurfer or apply Freesurfer first and then create an average of the metrics from the longitudinal pipeline? Best Re

[Freesurfer] Brainhack 2013 Invitation and Registration Link

2013-08-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear colleagues, I wanted to draw your attention on the upcoming Brainhack 2013, which is being held from October 23-26 at the Centre International d'Études Pédagogiques, Sèvres, France (just outside of Paris). Brainhack 2013 is a unique workshop with the goals of fostering interdisciplinary coll

[Freesurfer] Brainhack 2013 Update - Registration is open, Stipend program announced

2013-09-08 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear colleagues, I wanted to draw your attention on the upcoming Brainhack 2013, which is being held from October 23-26 at the Centre International d'Études Pédagogiques, Sèvres, France (just outside of Paris). Registration is limited, please register to guarantee a spot (http://www. brainhack.or

Re: [Freesurfer] [martinos-tech]

2013-09-11 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Suzanne, p<0.005 is the same whether its voxels or vertices. The liberal nature of 20 voxels is vague to begin with as there is two things contributing to how liberal 20 voxels are: (1) voxel size - 20 1mm isotropic voxels is quite different from 20 3mm isotropic voxels; (2) The number of voxels y

Re: [Freesurfer] Ploting convolved stimuli with actual stimuli

2013-09-15 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Aser, If you you put your custom sequence into SPM, you can get the graphs above. The key variables are: SPM.Sess.U.u, time variable is 0:TR/#oftimebins:TR/#oftimebins*size(SPM.Sess.U.u,1) SPM.xX.X, time variable is 0:TR:TR*size(SPM.xX.X,1), this is the convolved data., this is the stick function

Re: [Freesurfer] Getting around a design matrix with zero columns

2013-09-15 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Ye, If you use the DOSS model as Doug suggested, you have will not have a column of 0s in the matrix. However, the group columns become the covariate-adjusted thickness in each group (e.g. thickness at the mean years of meditation across everyone) - which doesn't make sense as non-meditators will

[Freesurfer] Allen Brain Institute to Freesurfer Labels

2012-06-20 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Does anyone have a mapping of the Allen Brain Institute labels to the freesurfer parcellations? Just the labels would be sufficient for these purposes. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GRECC, Bedford VA Research Fellow, Department of

Re: [Freesurfer] DODS, DOSS, and interactions

2012-06-27 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
If the covariates are collinear, then you can't properly estimate the model. They are collinear if they explain the variance of each other. I would first test for the relationship of your covariates before putting them into the model as you don't want the covariates to be collinear. Best Regards,

Re: [Freesurfer] FA (DTI) statistical analysis: 3 covariates

2012-07-02 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I don't believe that Freesurfer has the tools to use non-imaging data as the dependent variable. The GLM in freesurfer is setup to use the imaging data at the dependent variable. For your question, I'd recommend SAS, STATA, SPSS, or another standard statistical package. Best Regards, Donald McLar

[Freesurfer] Brainhack 2012

2012-07-09 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear colleagues, I wanted to draw your attention on the upcoming 2012 Brainhack, 1st edition, to be held from September 1-4 at the Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Brainhack is not a conference or a workshop. It should be closer to one of those exciting

[Freesurfer] AAL labels

2012-07-12 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Has anyone created an AAL label file for Freesurfer? I've done some ROI analysis using AAL regions and want to display regional values on the freesurfer surface. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospi

Re: [Freesurfer] Subgroup analysis

2012-11-19 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Doug and Mahinda, Since the assumption is that the slope is the same across all subjects, I would demean once. I would use one model with 1 control group and N patient group. The model will then test whether or not the covariate-adjusted group means are the same or different. By doing it in a sing

Re: [Freesurfer] contrast matrix

2012-11-20 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Bo, Doug asked me to chime in on your issue. Here are some points that you (and others) will hopefully find useful. (1) Inferences are two-step process. First, you create and estimate the design matrix. Every column in the design matrix accounts can account for some of the variance in the data. S

Re: [Freesurfer] Subgroup analysis

2012-11-20 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Mahinda Yogarajah wrote: > Hi Donald and Doug, > > Thanks for advice. Can I be a little bit clearer as I suspect I need a little > more guidance. > > When comparing controls (gp c) and whole patient group (gp p) I see > interesting differences in area (DOSS mode

Re: [Freesurfer] contrast matrix

2012-11-20 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
again:)? Nope. You are right. If the male and female effects are different, then they could cancel each other out. If you suspect this to be the case, then you should be able to demonstrate a three-way interaction. > thanks! > doug > > > On 11/20/2012 01:50 PM, MCLAREN, Donald wrote:

[Freesurfer] bbregister

2012-11-20 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Doug, I received this question from a colleague, "Exactly which segmentation file from "recon -all" is being used in the "bbregister" command?" Thanks, Donald ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/m

Re: [Freesurfer] bbregister

2012-11-20 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Which surfaces does it use? On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: > Hi Donald, > It does not use any of the segmentations. In fact, it does not use any > of the anatomical volumes. It only uses the surfaces. > doug > > > On 11/20/2012 03:19 PM, MCLAREN,

Re: [Freesurfer] contrast matrix

2012-11-21 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
between factor 1 (A,B)and >>> factor 2(C,D,E), gender (M,F) and one continuous variable (age) as >>> covariates, the following contrast: >>> 2 -2 0 -2 2 0 2 -2 0 -2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 >>> 0 2 -2 0 -2 2 0 2 -2 0 -2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 >>> >>>

Re: [Freesurfer] Subgroup analysis

2012-11-26 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Mahinda, As I understand it, you have 3 groups (Controls, P1, and P4) in your analysis and have done three contrasts: (1) P1vP4 --> no differences (2) P1vControls --> no differences (3) P4vControls --> significant differences Your first question about the difference in the analysis --> three cont

Re: [Freesurfer] How to design the contrast matrix with 12 regressors?

2012-11-26 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I assume that your 12 columns are: your 6 groups followed by 6 columns representing your covariate. You must first test that the slopes are not different with an F-test: 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0 If you don't find any diffe

Re: [Freesurfer] How to design the contrast matrix with 12 regressors?

2012-11-26 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Tel: 314-747-6173 > St. Louis, MO 63110 Email: mha...@wustl.edu > > > > > On 11/26/12 4:32 PM, "MCLAREN, Donald" wrote: > >>I assume that your 12 columns are: your 6 groups followed by 6 columns >>representing your covariate. >&g

Re: [Freesurfer] Subgroup analysis

2012-11-27 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Mahinda Yogarajah wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the reference and explanation of the subtle statistical > inferences. It was very useful. > > You are right in what i am trying to show (c- controls, p1 to p4 patients > with varying levels of endogenous factor) whi

Re: [Freesurfer] Reference for clusterwise correction for multiple comparisons

2012-11-29 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
For volumes, I usually cite: Forman, S.D., Cohen, J.D., Fitzgerald, M., Eddy, W.F., Mintun, M.A., Noll, D.C., 1995. Improved assessment of significant activation in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): use of a cluster-size threshold. Magn. Reson. Med. 33, 636–647. It's also referenced se

Re: [Freesurfer] contrast matrix

2012-12-01 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
> Saving design matrix to lh.COMTthree.glmdir/Xg.dat >> Normalized matrix condition is 82.694 >> Matrix condition is 73313.7 >> Found 149926 points in label. >> Pruning voxels by thr: 0.00 >> Found 149926 voxels in mask >> Saving mask to lh.COMTthree.glmdir/

Re: [Freesurfer] L-R Volume Flipping

2012-12-18 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
ool that does not read in and act on the geometry, > then things can appear to flip around. > > doug > > > > On 12/18/12 8:47 PM, MCLAREN, Donald wrote: > > Dear All, > > I've noticed something strange with some data I'm helping to process: > > When l

Re: [Freesurfer] L-R Volume Flipping

2012-12-19 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
When we added the --spm-nii option, the problem disappears. The following thread is also relevant: https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pipermail//freesurfer/2011-April/017981.html On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:26 PM, MCLAREN, Donald wrote: > Thanks, that's what I thought might be happening. I&

Re: [Freesurfer] preparing NHP data for whole brain analysis

2013-02-12 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I would recommend using the volume space initially until you can get more surfaces to create your group surface. The one issue with the 112RM_SL is that there is no EPI template. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachus

Re: [Freesurfer] preparing NHP data for whole brain analysis

2013-02-12 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
igh quality anatomy. > Doug, I did not get from the documentation how to use preproc-sess to align > data to an NHP atlas in volume space (that is not in human MNI space). > Please advise. > Thanks! > Caspar > > > > 2013/2/12 MCLAREN, Donald > >> I would recommend

Re: [Freesurfer] make a volume template from the surface-based template for non-human primates

2013-03-17 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
For many non-human primate species, volume templates already exist. I would recommend using them and aligning your surface templates to them to aid in the ability to compare studies across laboratories in the same space. For rhesus, see the 112RM-SL atlas. Best Regards, Donald McLaren =

[Freesurfer] Surface Label to Nifti File

2014-05-29 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I'm trying to convert a surface label to a nifti file to use with functional surface data that is already in nifti format. The ultimate goal is to be able to use the converted surface label as a seed in gPPI analyses that is run in MATLAB. I've been able to use volume based seeds for the MNI305 su

Re: [Freesurfer] Correlation coeffecient

2014-07-13 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Lars, Yes. You could use that equation. Here are some more conversions: http://www.soph.uab.edu/Statgenetics/People/MBeasley/Courses/EffectSizeConversion.pdf Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

[Freesurfer] Brainhack Eastern Standard Time - Boston October 18-19, 2014

2014-09-24 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
*Do you have a great idea for collaboration or want to collaborate on great ideas?* *THEN BRAINHACK IS THE PLACE FOR YOU* Brainhack is a unique conference that convenes researchers, artists, and members of industry from across the globe and a myriad of disciplines to work together on inno

[Freesurfer] Brainhack EDT - Boston Updates and Registration Details

2014-10-13 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
*October 18th and 19th, Boston* *McGovern Institute for Brain Research @ MIT - * *http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46* *3rd floor Atrium * *Doors will be locked, so we will have to let you in. If you are the door, please call 4-3544 or (617-324-3544) or send a chat me

Re: [Freesurfer] DOSS or DODS

2011-08-22 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
For question #3; #4. #3 Any good stastistical textbook will be useful. The two that come to mind are: (a) Meyers and Wells. Research Design and Statistical A nalysis (b) Keppel and Wickens. Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook (4th Edition) #4 SPM uses the General Linear Model for all of

Re: [Freesurfer] two questions regarding qdec and conjunction analysis is FS

2011-08-24 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
See inline responses.On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Tetiana Dadakova < tetian...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear FS experts, > > I have two questions: > > 1. In qdec.table.dat file I am specifying several continuous factors, > e.g factor1 and factor2. For some subjects factor2 is missing, > therefore I

[Freesurfer] mri_mcsim and mri_glmfit-sim

2011-09-13 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I am trying to figure out how to cluster some data on the cortical surface; however, I've run into a few issues: (1) I can't seem to find a description or examples for running mri_mcsim and mri_glmfit-sim won't work because I'm not using FSFAST to create my statistical maps. (2) A previous email

[Freesurfer] Concatenate surfaces

2011-09-29 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Is there a way to concatenate surfaces for use with mri_segstats? The surfaces are already in fsaverage space. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GRECC, Bedford VA Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

[Freesurfer] Image Filtering

2011-10-14 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Bruce and others, Are there any spatial filters applied during the segmentation process other than a bias field correction? For example, a spatially adaptive non-linear means filter (e.g VBM8)? If not, do you think denoising filters will improve the accuracy and/or reduce manual editting? Thanks

[Freesurfer] Surface Area from mri_surfcluster versus mri_segstats

2011-11-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I've noticed that if I run mri_surfcluster to produce a label file, then merge the labels into a single label using mri_mergelabels, then mri_segstats with the slabel option with the fsaverage subject; I get different surface areas from mri_surfcluster (summed all the cluster areas) and mri_segstat

[Freesurfer] Reliability and accuracy of Freesurfer

2011-12-16 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
I've looked through a number of freesurfer papers, but haven't been able to find the answer to what I am looking for and was hoping someone had the references easily available. (1) What is the reliability of regional volumes generated from freesurfer over time? (2) What is the accuracy of labels

Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with covariates in design for surface based analysis

2012-02-24 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Charlotte, There is no difference, from a statistical perspective, of nuisance factors and covariates. The key questions are: (1) Do any of these covariates have a differential effect on thickness between groups? (2) Do you want to compare the actual group means or the covariate-adjusted group me

Re: [Freesurfer] treatment of missing values in mri_glmfit

2012-02-27 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Kristine/Doug, Are you missing Dependent Variable values or Independent Variable Values? If you are missing some IV values, there are two potential solutions: (1) Drop the subject; (2) Impute the value of that subject given other variables and relationships of those variables and the variable wit

[Freesurfer] Non-human primate surface template

2009-08-12 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Dear all, Does anyone have or is perhaps working on a surface template for the rhesus macaque brain? -- Best Regards, Donald McLaren = Support the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk 2009 ~~~ Join the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center team or make a donation. http

Re: [Freesurfer] Task-based connectivity

2021-04-17 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
External Email - Use Caution Hi Kazuhisa, I believe that I included a wrapper for FSFAST to run gPPI. Please download the toolbox and take a look. If it's not there or your having issues, please let me know and I can help troubleshoot. Best Regards, Donald McLaren, PhD On Sat,

Re: [Freesurfer] statistical question

2011-01-24 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Just a couple of thoughts. It depends on what you want to control for AND how you want to control for it. For example, if the relationship of ICV to X differs between boys and girls, you might want to control ICV separately for each group. The results after controlling for ICV are those brain reg