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Hi FS experts,
I did group-level, surface-based, vertex-wise analysis for baseline and longitudinal data. I used Qdec and do the same work with the fsgd version (mri_glmfit-sim command) to double-check the data.
I created label files with tksurfer for each of the clusters showing a significant between-group difference. Then, I used the following command stream to extract the cortical thickness values for each subject and cluster: mri_label2label, mris_anatomical_stats, and aparcstats2table. E.g., mri_label2label --srcsubject fsaverage --srclabel /home/jagust/gklenck/Long_MRI/lh.ac-baseline-rostralmiddlefrontal.label --trgsubject ${s}_tp1 --trglabel ${s}_tp1/label/lh.ac-baseline-rostralmiddlefrontal.label --hemi lh --regmethod surface
mris_anatomical_stats -l lh.ac-baseline-rostralmiddlefrontal.label -t lh.thickness -b -f ${s}_tp1/stats/lh.ac-baseline-rostralmiddlefrontal.stats ${s}_tp1 lh
aparcstats2table --subjects ${s}_tp1 --hemi lh --parc ac-baseline-rostralmiddlefrontal --meas thickness --tablefile ${out_dir}/lh.ac-baseline-rostralmiddlefrontal.aparc_stats.txt
Subsequently, when I conducted between-group comparisons for each cluster, a couple of clusters (7 out of 16) do not show a significant difference - which does not make sense. This problem seems to appear randomly.
Help to the FS archives, I tried to use mri_segstats command but was not able to find a correct combination of arguments. If this is the right track to solve this problem, what combination of arguments should I use? And if this is not, do you have any idea how I can solve this problem?
Many thanks in advance.
Regards, Giuliana