AFNI Message Board

Dear AFNI users-

We are very pleased to announce that the new AFNI Message Board framework is up! Please join us at:

https://discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov

Existing user accounts have been migrated, so returning users can login by requesting a password reset. New users can create accounts, as well, through a standard account creation process. Please note that these setup emails might initially go to spam folders (esp. for NIH users!), so please check those locations in the beginning.

The current Message Board discussion threads have been migrated to the new framework. The current Message Board will remain visible, but read-only, for a little while.

Sincerely, AFNI HQ

History of AFNI updates  

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Jed Meltzer
April 09, 2008 06:06PM
Center of mass should be weighted by default. However there are various ways to do it. If you cluster an image consisting of activation magnitudes (like percent signal change), you will get it weighted toward the maximum magnitude. You could also cluster an image consisting of statistical values such as t-maps, and the weighted center may be somewhat different. It is a philosophical question which is better, I think most in the Afni camp would go with magnitude.

Finally, if you did want to compute the center of a cluster WITHOUT weighting by amplitude, you can trick the clustering program into doing that. Simply cluster the data first and then use 3dcalc with
-expr 'step(a)'

to convert the image into ones in the clusters and zeros elsewhere, then the center of mass should simply be the unweighted geometric center of the cluster.
Subject Author Posted

Center of Activation Area

Paul April 09, 2008 11:45AM

Re: Center of Activation Area

rick reynolds April 09, 2008 11:57AM

Re: Center of Activation Area

Paul April 09, 2008 12:53PM

Re: Center of Activation Area

rick reynolds April 09, 2008 01:49PM

Re: Center of Activation Area

Paul April 09, 2008 02:34PM

Re: Center of Activation Area

Jed Meltzer April 09, 2008 06:06PM