Hello Jacob,
fslmeants only uses --nobin for the --eig mode:
--no_bin do not binarise the mask for calculation of Eigenvariates
Kind Regards
Matthew
> Hello FSL experts,
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> I am using fslmeants with a probabilistic mask and I seem to extract the
> same timecourse values regardless of if I include the --no_bin flag...
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> Additionally, these outputted timecouses are also identical to the output
> when I use a binary version of the same probabilistic mask. That said, the
> --no_bin does produce differences if I also include the --eig flag, though
> I do not know if this would be an appropriate solution. My end goal is to
> use the timecourses as regressors in resting state functional connectivity
> analysis.
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> I am not certain why in the first case fslmeants seems to be applying a
> default binarization of my probabilistic mask, but I am hopeful you may
> have the answer.
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> Just for clarity, my understanding of the --no_bin is that this flag
> should generate a representative timecourse by using the various
> probability values of the mask to weight the contributions included in
> generating the extracted signal (as oppose to the mean).
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> Please let me know if you would like me to include any additional
> information.
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> Thank you for the help,
> Jacob
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