Hi,
I have read in the mailing list about zero cortical thickness, but I
still have some doubts.
I am calculating the average cortical thickness of some areas, and
there are a few that almost all the subjects' thickness is zero,
others only some subjects score zero. For the ones that almost all
subjects is zero, I would guess is not considered cortical, however,
all my areas are cortical.
- If I compute a ttest against two groups, should I set the zeros as
NaNs? or are the zero thickness meaningful (a genuine measure or a
segmentation artifact)?
-Should I use the -l ?h.cortex.label to avoid having zero thickness in
some areas? If so, at which point? the commands used are:
mri_surf2surf --srcsubject fsaverage --trgsubject subjid --hemi ?h
--sval-annot fsaverage/label/?h.areas.annot --tval
$SUBJECTS_DIR/subjid/label/?h.areas.annot
mris_anatomical_stats -a
$SUBJECTS_DIR/subjid/label/?h.areas.annot$SUBJECTS_DIR/subjid/label/?h.areas.annot
-f $SUBJECTS_DIR/subjid/stats/?h.areas.stats -b subjid ?h
Thanks
Adonay