Dear Madeleine,
The “—nobet” is actually superfluous here as the mask ( -m ) option takes precedence over any bet-ting/thresholding.

Hope this helps,
Kind regards
Matthew
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Dr Matthew Webster
FMRIB Centre 
John Radcliffe Hospital
University of Oxford

On 3 Jan 2024, at 17:24, Madeleine Hau <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Experts,

I have a short question regarding the use of the Melodic command line.

I am attempting to perform group ICA on my resting-state data following the example in the ICA practical (https://open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcourse/practicals/ica/index.html#dim).

I noticed that the command used here included the --nobet option but did not include a --bgthreshold option.

melodic -i input_files.txt -o groupICA15 \
 --tr=0.72 --nobet -a concat \
 -m $FSLDIR/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm_brain_mask.nii.gz \
 --report --Oall -d 15

From melodic --help, I got the impression that the --bgthreshold is needed if --nobet is used:
"--bgthreshold brain / non-brain threshold (only if --nobet selected)"

Is there a special reason why the --bgthreshold is not defined in this example, or is there some kind of automated calculation of the threshold?

Thanks a lot for the clarification!

All the best,
Madeleine

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