Dear Dr. Mak,

 

Thank you for your time and response! I looked into the link you suggested. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly what I need, although I realize my question may have been stated incorrectly.

 

Part of the rationale behind creating the map(s) is to be able to see if the findings we report on regional-level are highly focal within that region or rather more widely distributed / traversing regions. When overlaying the p-value over the entire region, that would indeed help me in terms of a visualization, but not in terms of useful information. Sorry for that misunderstanding.

 

Would you (or anybody else) know if that is possible?

Or is the only solution what I’ve done:  re-analyze in Freesurfer and study the uncorrected images?

And maybe not even use those images in the manuscript, but merely state that the findings seem distributed? Since no findings remain after FDR correction in Freesurfer, which indicates that per voxel small differences are present which add up for the region to a larger (significant) difference?

 

Thank you again!

Best,

Siri

 

 

 

 

From: Elijah [mailto:elijahmak@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Elijah Mak
Sent: dinsdag 23 mei 2017 11:52
To: Freesurfer support list; Noordermeer, S.D.S.
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Question - multiple comparisons in FS versus SPSS

 

Hi Siri,

 

Are you trying to overlay the p value associated with each region on the fsaverage surface? This may help:

 

http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg50465.html

 

Best Wishes,

Elijah 

 

Dr. Elijah Mak, Research Associate

Department of Psychiatry,  Old Age Psychiatry Group

University of Cambridge
Trinity College, CB21TQ, UK

 

 

On 23 May 2017 at 10:46:38, Noordermeer, S.D.S. (sds.noordermeer@vu.nl) wrote:

Dear Freesurfer experts,

 

I haven’t had the pleasure of receiving a response (yet), and was wondering whether that is because more information is needed?

 

In addition to the general theoretical question, the second part of the question is as important to me: Is there is any way, known to you experts, for me to visualize my SPSS results in a statistical-map-way?

 

If anyone could spare some time to help me out I would greatly appreciate it!!

Best,

Siri

 

 

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Noordermeer, S.D.S.
Sent: zaterdag 13 mei 2017 22:22
To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: [Freesurfer] Question - multiple comparisons in FS versus SPSS

 

Hi there!


I was hoping you could help me with the following 'problem' I am experiencing.

 

Short background: 

I compared volumetric brain characteristics as output from FreeSurfer parcellations and segmentations between 3 groups, by extracting the volumes per anatomical label from FreeSurfer and analyzing these in SPSS. In SPSS I did a mixed-model analysis, and performed subsequent Benjamini-Hochberg FDR correction for multiple comparisons.

 

At the moment, I want to make brain maps (because this is a nice way to visualize the data and a reviewer suggested it). However... I believe I end up with only being able to use the uncorrected maps? 

When I perform an FDR-correction (or MonteCarlo, or clusterwise) in FreeSurfer all the group differences disappear. Unfortunately there is nobody that I can consult on this matter in my lab, thus I really hope someone here can help me?
Personally, I think that the difference in the presence (SPSS) versus absence (FS) of groups effects is due to the correction method. I believe that in FreeSurfer I apply a whole brain multiple comparison correction, while in SPSS I merely apply a ROI-based FDR-correction I in SPSS (because I look at volume per label). 

 

However, I am not sure if this is indeed (theoretically) sound? Could anyone advise me? Is there a way I could visualise my own (SPSS) results?

If more info is needed please do say so, and I will provide it!

Thank you very much for your time and reply!

Best,

Siri

 

 

 

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