Hi Anderson,

   My full design contrasts are below:

/ContrastName1 HC > Grp1
/ContrastName2 HC < Grp1
/ContrastName3 HC > Grp2
/ContrastName4 HC < Grp2
/ContrastName5 Grp1 > Grp2
/ContrastName6 Grp1 < Grp2
/ContrastName7 M > F
/ContrastName8 M < F
/ContrastName9 HC/Grp1 M/F Interaction
/ContrastName10 HC/Grp2 M/F Interaction
/ContrastName11 Grp1/Grp2 M/F Interaction
/NumWaves 9
/NumPoints 11
/Matrix
1 1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
-1 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0
-1 -1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
0 0 1 1 -1 -1 0 0 0
0 0 -1 -1 1 1 0 0 0
1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 0 0 0
-1 1 -1 1 -1 1 0 0 0
1 -1 -1 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 -1 0 0 -1 1 0 0 0
0 0 1 -1 -1 1 0 0 0

My colums correspond to the following:

EV1:HC-M

EV2:HC-F

EV3:Grp1-M

EV4:Grp1-F

EV5:Grp2-M

EV6:Grp2-F

EV7:Age

EV8:Education

EV9:Disease Severity

In the folder I was running the analysis I put the lh.thickness.10mm.mgz,  rh.thickness.10mm.mgz, lh.white (fsaverage), rh.white (fsaverage), lh.mask.mgh (taken from running qdec initially), rh.mask.mgh (taken from running qdec initially).

I initially ran palm_hemimerge lh* within matlab

Then from a terminal I ran the following command:

palm -i bh.thickness.10mm.mgz -d design.mat -t design.con -o bh.thickness -n 500 -approx tail -corrcon -s bh.white -T -tfce2D -logp -m bh.mask.mgz -nouncorrected

The command ran fully.  When I loaded contrast 6 I found no results on the pial surface, however the white matter surface (where the mask was) was speckled all over with no cluster.

If there is a location,I can upload the stats file if that is easier.

Thanks,

Ajay

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Ajay Kurani <dr.ajay.kurani@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Anderson,

   Thanks for the help.  When viewing my results they looked very strange.  Upon further investigation it looks as though the mask I supplied to PALM was a white matter mask (mask.mgh from running qdec initially) created when I ran qdec.  I assumed this would be the whole cortex but I was wrong.  Therefore it seems to only run permutation testing on the surface of the white matter.  Due to the fact that it is unsmoothed white matter, I think this is why we see some speckling bleeding through near the boundaries

In order to do permutation testing accurately for surface based cortical thickness, would the mask need to be a volume file which is between the pial and white matter surfaces or would it just need to be the pial surface (lh.pial / rh.pial), or something else?  Any suggestions on the best way to create this?

Thanks,

Ajay

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ajay Kurani <dr.ajay.kurani@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Anderson,

   Thanks for the help.  When viewing my results they looked very strange.  Upon further investigation it looks as though the mask I supplied to PALM was a white matter mask (mask.mgh from running qdec initially) created when I ran qdec.  I assumed this would be the whole cortex but I was wrong.  Therefore it seems to only run permutation testing on the surface of the white matter as seen in the attached photo.  Due to the fact that it is unsmoothed white matter, I think this is why we see some speckling bleeding through near the boundaries

In order to do permutation testing accurately for surface based cortical thickness, would the mask need to be a volume file which is between the pial and white matter surfaces or would it just need to be the pial surface (lh.pial / rh.pial), or something else?  Any suggestions on the best way to create this?

Thanks,

Ajay

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ajay Kurani <dr.ajay.kurani@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Freesurfer Experts,

   I was running permutation simulations on cortical thickness data and I had an issue with non-orthogonal covariates with mri_glmfit-sim -perm.  I then tried FSL's PALM which is an extension of randomize to calculate threshold free stats.  I saved the output as logp(which is similar to qdec I believe), however I have not been able to load the stats files correctly.  The output of palm is lh.thickness_tfce.mgz for my various contrasts.

1) Is .mgz the proper format for the stats files or do I need to convert this to another type like .mgh etc? 

2) Can I display this in freeview or is another program needed?  I also tried tksurfer but when I loaded the stats file as an overlay nothing displayed.  I want to make sure that the stats is loaded as an overlay in freeview/tksurfer and if so, do I need to select anything special so that it scales the logp values correctly?

Thanks,

Ajay

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