Hi all,
I'm doing ROI analysis on functional data with an anatomical label, and while the activity looks strong and robust in tksurfer, the % signal changes I am getting are very low (and much lower than we've previously found), and I'm not sure what's going on.
I'm running Freesurfer 4.5 on red hat linux.
The design is a blocked design with 4 non-null conditions, baseline is fixation. Attached is a picture of the activity I get for 2 subjects for on of the conditions vs fixation (baseline) at a p<0.05 threshold with the ROI outlined in black as well as the output from roisummary-sess for these two subjects in that roi. I calculate % signal change based of the output from roisummary-sess, dividing each condition by the baseline in that file and then multiplying by 100. % signal changes are listed below, along with all commands run.
% signal change: 110222SKJ_connected 110222SP_connected 0.000988998467052 0.000533852720367 0.00105349836708 0.000556814127695 0.000408499366826 0.000327200054419 0.000440749316839 0.000436266739225
commands: mkanalysis-sess -analysis connect -TR 2 -paradigm connect.dat -designtype blocked -funcstem fmc -motioncor -runlistfile connect_runs.txt -inorm -tpexclude tpexclude.dat -nconditions 4 -timewindow 20 -gammafit 2.25 1.25 -noautostimdur
mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast connected_vs_unconnected -a 1 -c 2 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast connected_vs_noise -a 1 -c 3 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast connected_vs_phase -a 1 -c 4 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast connected_vs_fix -a 1 -c 0 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast unconnected_vs_noise -a 2 -c 3 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast unconnected_vs_phase -a 2 -c 4 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast unconnected_vs_fix -a 2 -c 0 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast noise_vs_phase -a 3 -c 4 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast noise_vs_fix -a 3 -c 0 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast shape_vs_noise -a 1 -a 2 -c 3 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast shape_vs_phase -a 2 -a 1 -c 4 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast shape_vs_noisephase -a 2 -a 1 -c 3 -c 4 mkcontrast-sess -analysis connect -contrast act_vs_fix -a 2 -a 1 -a 3 -a 4 -c 0
selxavg3-sess -sf connect-sess -df connect.dir -analysis connect
#run ROIs setenv anal connect foreach roi ( infIPS supIPS loc ) foreach h (lh rh) func2roi-sess -roidef ${roi}-${anal}-${h} -analysis $anal -anatlabel ips_loc/${roi}-${h} -sf connect-sess -df connect.dir roisummary-sess -sumfile ips-rois/${anal}_${roi}-${h}.dat -roidef ${roi}-${anal}-${h} -analysis ${anal} -sf connect-sess -df connect.dir python roi_reader.py -r ${roi} -a ${anal} -z ${h} -f ips-rois -c 4 end end
Thanks,
Katie
