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| Walkthrough: How to use FsFast and [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/fcseed-sess|fcseed-sess]] for functional connectivity analysis including example commands. | This page describes how to perform seed-based functional connectivity (FC) analysis in FSFAST. The FC analysis is an extension of the task-based analysis for which there is much more documentation. These instructions mainly cover the details specific to FC analysis. The other steps are given minimal treatment under the understanding that many more details can be found in the task based analysis documentation as found in [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/docs/freesurfer.fsfast.ppt|FS-FAST powerpoint]] and the [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastTutorial|FS-FAST tutorial]]. |
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| For general tips on using FsFast, download this [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/docs/freesurfer.fsfast.ppt|FS-FAST powerpoint]] | *STEP 1: Unpack Data into the FSFAST Hierarchy using dcmunpack (run with -help for more documentation): |
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| This walkthrough demonstrates how to run a functional connectivity analysis on resting state fMRI data. | Sample cmd: |
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| *STEP 1: Unpack Data into the FSFAST Hierarchy using [[https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/unpacksdcmdir|unpacksdcmdir]] | dcmunpack -src dicomdir -targ sessionid -fsfast -run 3 bold nii.gz f.nii.gz -run 4 bold nii.gz f.nii.gz |
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| Ex: unpacksdcmdir -src dicomdir/subject/ALLDICOMS -targ fcMRI_dir/subject -cfg subject_config.txt -fsfast -unpackerr |
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| In this example command... *Have all fMRI dicoms linked into "ALLDICOMS" directory *Arguement for "-targ" specifies output directory *subject_config.txt is a configuration text file you create (format below) *Use "-fsfast" to generate fsfast hierarchy subject_config.txt format: 28 bold nii f.nii 29 bold nii f.nii Col.1: scan acquisition number Col.2: output dir name will be created within "fcMRI_dir/subject" Col.3: output file format - this example is nifti format Col.4: output filename. In this example, 2 files will be created: fcMRI_dir/subject/028/f.nii fcMRI_dir/subject/029/f.nii 1.QA Check after unpacking: * A - Check unpacked data (time points, # of slices ..etc) * B - Check FSFAST hierarchy in session folder *STEP 2: Reconstruction Anatomical data using [[https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/recon-all| recon-all]] Ex: setenv SUBJECTS_DIR /path/to/recon_dir/ recon-all -s subject_dirname -all -i pathtoT1dicom_scan1.dcm -i pathtoT1dicom_scan2.dcm In this example command... *set your SUBJECTS_DIR variable to your FreeSurfer subject recon directory *set the subject's directory name with "-s" ... the arguement you provide will become the directory name within $SUBJECTS_DIR *use "-i" to supply the dicoms to reconstruct. Use one "-i" per T1 acquisition. 2.QA Check: * A - Check talairach transformation * B - Check skull strip, white matter & pial surface * C - Re-run "recon-all" if edits are made * D - Check hierarchy of reconstructed anatomical data 1.Double-check for FSFAST basic hierarchy |
* Have all fMRI dicoms for this subject in the dicomdir folder or subfolders under this folder * Arguement for "-targ" specifies output directory here called "sessionid". This should be unique to the subject (and visit if longitudinal). This is called the session folder. * -run 3 bold nii.gz f.nii.gz will unpack run 3 fmri to sessionid/bold/003/f.nii.gz * To get a list of runs, run dcmunpack -src dicomdir/subject/ALLDICOMS * Use "-fsfast" to generate fsfast hierarchy shown in the image below * The parent folder of the sessionid folder is called the "Project Folder" or "Project Directory". All the commands below should be run from the Project Folder. |
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| 2.Link to FreeSurfer anatomical analysis: A - Create "subjectname" text file in the session directory. Write in it the subject's recon directory name (found within $SUBJECTS_DIR). 3.Create a sessid file (text file with list of your sessions)in your Study DIR. |
*STEP 2: Link to FreeSurfer anatomical analysis. This is done by creating a text file called sessionid/subjectname with the name of the FreeSurfer anatomical folder as created with recon-all and found in $SUBJECTS_DIR. |
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| preproc-sess -s <subjid> -fwhm <#> | Sample cmd: |
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| 1.By default this will do motion correction, smoothing & brain masking | preproc-sess -s sessionid -fwhm 10 -surface fsaverage lhrh |
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| 2.Quality Check (plot-twf-sess) 3.Examine additions to FSFAST hierarchy (in each run of bold dir): | By default this will do motion correction, masking, registration to the anatomical, sampling to the surface, and surface smoothing. The sampling is done onto the surface of the lh and rh hemispheres of fsaverage. Note that eventhough the time series data are sampled onto fsaverage, the FC seeds are derived from the indvidual anatomy as shown below. |
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| ||f.nii || (Raw fMRI data) || ||fmc.nii || (Motion corrected-MC)|| ||fmcsm5.nii|| (MC & smoothed)|| ||fmc.mcdat|| (Text file with the MC parameters (AFNI))|| ||brain.mgz ||(Binary mask of the brain)|| |
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| # Function-Structure Registration View unregistered: | There are two methods of deriving a seed region: |
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| . [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/tkregister-sess|tkregister-sess]] -s <subjid> -regheader) | 1) To use a full-size Freesurfer parcellation from aparc+aseg.mgz, continue with STEP 5 on this page. |
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| Run automatic registration: | 2) To split the full Freesurfer parcellation into multiple seeds ("split parcellation"), follow the [[FsFastFunctionalConnectivityWalkthroughSplittingSeeds |additional steps here]] - and resume with step 5 on this page... |
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| . [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/spmregister-sess|spmregister-sess]] -s <subjid> | *STEP 5: Use fcseed-config to configure the parameters you wish to pass to your connectivity analysis. |
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| Check automatic registration: | Sample command: {{{fcseed-config -segid 1010 -fcname mean.L_Posteriorcingulate.dat -fsd bold -mean -cfg mean.L_Posteriorcingulate.config}}} |
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| . [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/tkregister-sess|tkregister-sess]] -s <subjid> | This example will use the FreeSurfer cortical segmentation for the left posterior cingulate (segID: 1010) as defined for this individual. For seed regions, we recommend generating the mean signal timecourse by using "-mean". Note that this does not perform any analysis, it just creates a text file with the configuration. You can include more -segid flags to include more regions (though it will create only one seed time course). NOTE: Once a config file is created it may be used for multiple sessions. |
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| A - Make edits if needed using scale as the last resort Check talairach registration: | *STEP 5: Pass the config text file to fcseed-sess to generate time-course information for your chosen seed region (or for nuisance variable signal). |
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| . [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/tkregister2|tkregister2]] --s <subjid> --fstal --surf | {{{fcseed-sess -s sessionid -cfg L_Posteriorcingulate.config}}} |
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| *STEP 4: Use fcseed-sess to generate time-course information for your chosen seed region (as well as nuisance variable signal). | This creates a file called L_Posteriorcingulate.dat in each resting state run. This will have a single time course in it |
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| *STEP 5: Use [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mkanalysis-sess|mkanalysis-sess]] to setup an analysis for your FC data | *STEP 6: Create nuisance variables |
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| *STEP 6: Use [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/selxavg3-sess|selxavg3-sess]] to run the subject-level analysis | for white matter: . fcseed-config -wm -fcname wm.dat -fsd bold -pca -cfg wm.config . fcseed-sess -s sessionid -cfg wm.config |
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| *STEP 7: Use [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mri_glmfit|mri_glmfit]] or [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/selxavg3-sess|selxavg3-sess]] to run a group-level analysis | for ventricles + CSF: . fcseed-config -vcsf -fcname vcsf.dat -fsd bold -pca -cfg vcsf.config . fcseed-sess -s sessionid -cfg vcsf.config These commands will create wm.dat and vcsf.dat in for each resting state run. These are text files with multiple columns. Each column is a principle component. You will choose the number of components to use below. *STEP 6: Use [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mkanalysis-sess|mkanalysis-sess]] to configure an analysis for your FC data. Like the fcseed-config above, this is done once regardless of how many sessionds you have. {{{mkanalysis-sess -analysis fc.lpccseed.surf.lh -surface fsaverage lh -fwhm 5 -notask -taskreg L_Posteriorcingulate.dat 1 -nuisreg vcsf.dat 5 -nuisreg wm.dat 5 -mcreg -polyfit 5 -nskip 4 -fsd bold -TR <TR> }}} This command does not perform any analysis; it just creates an analysis configuration called "fc.lpccseed.surf.lh". There will be a folder of this name with a text file called analysis.info. The analysis will be run on the left hemisphere of fsaverage smoothed by 5 mm (this was already performed in preprocessing above). The waveform in the file called mean.L_Posteriorcingulate.dat will be used as the "task regressor"; this is just the FC seed. There are five sets of nuisance variables: (1) the CSF from which the top 5 principle components will be used, (2) the white matter from which the top 5 principle components will be used, (3) motion correction parameters (-mcreg), (4) 5th order polynomial, and (5) the first 4 time points will be discarded. If you with to perform global signal regression, add "-nuisreg global.waveform.dat 1". Specify the TR with the -TR flag (eg, TR 2 for 2 seconds). *STEP 6: Use [[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/selxavg3-sess|selxavg3-sess]] to run the subject-level analysis outlined by the above mkanalysis-sess cmd just as you would with a task-based analysis {{{selxavg3-sess -s sessionid -a fc.lpccseed.surf.lh}}} This performs the voxel-wise time series analysis for the given session. This results in several files being generated in the session folder. These include * ces.mgz - contrast effect size (contrast matrix * regression coef) * cesvar.mgz - variance of contrast effect size * sig.mgz - significance map (-log10(p)) * pcc.mgz - partial correlation coefficient map *STEP 7: Group-level analysiss As with task-based analysis, you will run isxconcat-sess to create a "stack" of maps from each subject. If you want to use the correlation coefficient instead of the ces, specify -map pcc. Specify the contrast as L_Posteriorcingulate (or just use -all-contrasts). After that, you can perform the standard group FS group analysis. |
About
This page describes how to perform seed-based functional connectivity (FC) analysis in FSFAST. The FC analysis is an extension of the task-based analysis for which there is much more documentation. These instructions mainly cover the details specific to FC analysis. The other steps are given minimal treatment under the understanding that many more details can be found in the task based analysis documentation as found in FS-FAST powerpoint and the FS-FAST tutorial.
*STEP 1: Unpack Data into the FSFAST Hierarchy using dcmunpack (run with -help for more documentation):
Sample cmd:
dcmunpack -src dicomdir -targ sessionid -fsfast -run 3 bold nii.gz f.nii.gz -run 4 bold nii.gz f.nii.gz
In this sample command...
- Have all fMRI dicoms for this subject in the dicomdir folder or subfolders under this folder
- Arguement for "-targ" specifies output directory here called "sessionid". This should be unique to the subject (and visit if longitudinal). This is called the session folder.
- -run 3 bold nii.gz f.nii.gz will unpack run 3 fmri to sessionid/bold/003/f.nii.gz
- To get a list of runs, run dcmunpack -src dicomdir/subject/ALLDICOMS
- Use "-fsfast" to generate fsfast hierarchy shown in the image below
- The parent folder of the sessionid folder is called the "Project Folder" or "Project Directory". All the commands below should be run from the Project Folder.
*STEP 2: Link to FreeSurfer anatomical analysis. This is done by creating a text file called sessionid/subjectname with the name of the FreeSurfer anatomical folder as created with recon-all and found in $SUBJECTS_DIR.
*STEP 3: Pre-process your bold data using preproc-sess preproc-sess
Sample cmd:
preproc-sess -s sessionid -fwhm 10 -surface fsaverage lhrh
By default this will do motion correction, masking, registration to the anatomical, sampling to the surface, and surface smoothing. The sampling is done onto the surface of the lh and rh hemispheres of fsaverage. Note that eventhough the time series data are sampled onto fsaverage, the FC seeds are derived from the indvidual anatomy as shown below.
*STEP 4:
There are two methods of deriving a seed region:
1) To use a full-size Freesurfer parcellation from aparc+aseg.mgz, continue with STEP 5 on this page.
2) To split the full Freesurfer parcellation into multiple seeds ("split parcellation"), follow the additional steps here - and resume with step 5 on this page...
*STEP 5: Use fcseed-config to configure the parameters you wish to pass to your connectivity analysis.
Sample command: fcseed-config -segid 1010 -fcname mean.L_Posteriorcingulate.dat -fsd bold -mean -cfg mean.L_Posteriorcingulate.config
This example will use the FreeSurfer cortical segmentation for the left posterior cingulate (segID: 1010) as defined for this individual. For seed regions, we recommend generating the mean signal timecourse by using "-mean". Note that this does not perform any analysis, it just creates a text file with the configuration. You can include more -segid flags to include more regions (though it will create only one seed time course). NOTE: Once a config file is created it may be used for multiple sessions.
*STEP 5: Pass the config text file to fcseed-sess to generate time-course information for your chosen seed region (or for nuisance variable signal).
fcseed-sess -s sessionid -cfg L_Posteriorcingulate.config
This creates a file called L_Posteriorcingulate.dat in each resting state run. This will have a single time course in it
*STEP 6: Create nuisance variables
for white matter:
- fcseed-config -wm -fcname wm.dat -fsd bold -pca -cfg wm.config
- fcseed-sess -s sessionid -cfg wm.config
for ventricles + CSF:
- fcseed-config -vcsf -fcname vcsf.dat -fsd bold -pca -cfg vcsf.config
- fcseed-sess -s sessionid -cfg vcsf.config
These commands will create wm.dat and vcsf.dat in for each resting state run. These are text files with multiple columns. Each column is a principle component. You will choose the number of components to use below.
*STEP 6: Use mkanalysis-sess to configure an analysis for your FC data. Like the fcseed-config above, this is done once regardless of how many sessionds you have.
mkanalysis-sess -analysis fc.lpccseed.surf.lh -surface fsaverage lh -fwhm 5 -notask -taskreg L_Posteriorcingulate.dat 1 -nuisreg vcsf.dat 5 -nuisreg wm.dat 5 -mcreg -polyfit 5 -nskip 4 -fsd bold -TR <TR>
This command does not perform any analysis; it just creates an analysis configuration called "fc.lpccseed.surf.lh". There will be a folder of this name with a text file called analysis.info. The analysis will be run on the left hemisphere of fsaverage smoothed by 5 mm (this was already performed in preprocessing above). The waveform in the file called mean.L_Posteriorcingulate.dat will be used as the "task regressor"; this is just the FC seed. There are five sets of nuisance variables: (1) the CSF from which the top 5 principle components will be used, (2) the white matter from which the top 5 principle components will be used, (3) motion correction parameters (-mcreg), (4) 5th order polynomial, and (5) the first 4 time points will be discarded. If you with to perform global signal regression, add "-nuisreg global.waveform.dat 1". Specify the TR with the -TR flag (eg, TR 2 for 2 seconds).
*STEP 6: Use selxavg3-sess to run the subject-level analysis outlined by the above mkanalysis-sess cmd just as you would with a task-based analysis
selxavg3-sess -s sessionid -a fc.lpccseed.surf.lh
This performs the voxel-wise time series analysis for the given session. This results in several files being generated in the session folder. These include
- ces.mgz - contrast effect size (contrast matrix * regression coef)
- cesvar.mgz - variance of contrast effect size
- sig.mgz - significance map (-log10(p))
- pcc.mgz - partial correlation coefficient map
*STEP 7: Group-level analysiss
As with task-based analysis, you will run isxconcat-sess to create a "stack" of maps from each subject. If you want to use the correlation coefficient instead of the ces, specify -map pcc. Specify the contrast as L_Posteriorcingulate (or just use -all-contrasts). After that, you can perform the standard group FS group analysis.