An off-list email reports how to find the point in an normalized image that corresponds to a given un-normalized location. See also Un-normalizing a point.

From: John Ashburner 
To: Christophe Phillips 
Subject: Re: Coordinates transform
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:26:21 +0000


Hi Christophe,

> I've the coordinates [x y z] of a point (actually the location of a
> fitted current dipole) in an image 'img1'. This image was normalised
> into 'w_img1'. I'd like to have the dipoles coordinates [x y z]_w in
> the normalised image...
> 
> Do you have a routine that can do that easily from the 'img1_sn.mat'
> file ? 

The deformations in the sn.mat files map from points in normalised
space, to points in un-normalised space.  You therefore need to invert
them, which is a bit messy.  You would use the Deformations toolbox
for this (from the Toolbox pulldown).  First write out the deformation
field from the sn.mat.  Then call the Deformations toolbox again, and
choose the deformations inversion option.  This will be an iy*.img
file with three volumes.  This little script can then be used.

c = [x y z]'; % co-ordinates in mm (as shown by Display)
P = spm_get(1,'iy*.img','Select inverted warp');
P = [repmat(P,3,1) [',1';',2';',3']];
V = spm_vol(P);

vx = inv(V(1).mat)*[c ; 1];  % The voxel in the deformation to sample

w_coord = [...
     spm_sample_vol(V(1),vx(1),vx(2),vx(3),1)
     spm_sample_vol(V(2),vx(1),vx(2),vx(3),1)
     spm_sample_vol(V(3),vx(1),vx(2),vx(3),1)]

I haven't tested it, so there may be things to fix.


All the best,
-John

P-value images are difficult to visualize since “important” values are small and clumped near zero. A -log10 transformation makes for much better visualization while still having interpretability (e.g. a value of 3 cooresponds to P=0.001).

This function, T2nltP, will create -log10 P-value image based on either a contrast number (which must be a T contrast) or a T statistic image and the degrees of freedom.

This version for SPM2 was created Michael Moffitt, based on the SPM99 function of the same name for SPM99. Note that Michael’s version can easily be changed to create P-values instead of -log10 P-values.

t2nltP.m

function T2nltP(a1,a2)
% Write image of P-values (spm_nltP_?) for a T image
%
% FORMAT T2nltP
% SPM will ask you which spmT_? file you want to convert to spm_nltP_?
%
% FORMAT T2nltP(Timg,df)
% Timg  Filename of T image
% df    Degrees of freedom
%
%
% As per SPM convention, T images are zero masked, and so zeros will have
% P-value NaN.
%
% @(#)T2nltP.m  1.2 T. Nichols 03/07/15
% Modified 04/01/20 by MAM - for SPM2 compatibility

if nargin==0

     % Ask user for SPM.mat file and specific contrast
     [SPM,xSPM]=spm_getSPM;

     % If a 'T' contrast, get degrees of freedom (df) and fname of spmT_?
     if xSPM.STAT ~= 'T', error('Not a T contrast'); end
     df=xSPM.df(2);
     Tnm=xSPM.Vspm.fname;

elseif nargin==2
   Tnm = a1;
   df  = a2;
end


Tvol = spm_vol(Tnm);

Pvol        = Tvol;
Pvol.dim(4) = spm_type('float');
Pvol.fname  = strrep(Tvol.fname,'spmT','spm_nltP');
if strcmp(Pvol.fname,Tvol.fname)
   Pvol.fname = fullfile(spm_str_manip(Tvol.fname,'H'), ...
                         ['nltP' spm_str_manip(Tvol.fname,'t')]);
end


Pvol = spm_create_vol(Pvol);

for i=1:Pvol.dim(3),
   img         = spm_slice_vol(Tvol,spm_matrix([0 0 i]),Tvol.dim(1:2),0);
   img(img==0) = NaN;
   tmp         = find(isfinite(img));
   if ~isempty(tmp)
       % Create map of P values
       %img(tmp)  = (max(eps,1-spm_Tcdf(img(tmp),df)));

       % Create map of -log10(P values)
       img(tmp)  = -log10(max(eps,1-spm_Tcdf(img(tmp),df)));
   end
   Pvol        = spm_write_plane(Pvol,img,i);
end;

spm_close_vol(Pvol);

(Note: The program in this email was corrected; I have added the corrections to this message. Also, an additional typo was discovered in Sep 2003 and was fixed.)

Subject: Re: tabulate all voxels of a volume or cluster
From: John Ashburner <john@FIL.ION.UCL.AC.UK>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:26:56 +0000 (09:26 EST)
To: SPM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

> Is there a possibility to tabulate the p-values and statistics for all
> voxels for the entire volume. (not only the peaks) ?
> Or which data file should I readout to get the desired
> values?

Copy and paste the following into Matlab, and select the appropriate
spmT or spmF images.  The first 3 columns are MNI coordinates.  The
fourth is the statistic.  I haven't included any p-values, but this
would be a relatively simple operation, provifing you can figure out
degres of freedom etc.  Use spm_Tcdf.m or spm_Fcdf.m to do this.



 P=spm_get(1,'*.img','Select statistic image');
 V=spm_vol(P);

 [x,y,z] = ndgrid(1:V.dim(1),1:V.dim(2),0);
 for i=1:V.dim(3),
   z   = z + 1;
   tmp = spm_sample_vol(V,x,y,z,0);
   msk = find(tmp~=0 & finite(tmp));
   if ~isempty(msk),
     tmp = tmp(msk);
     xyz1=[x(msk)'; y(msk)'; z(msk)'; ones(1,length(msk))];
     xyzt=V.mat(1:3,:)*xyz1;
     for j=1:length(tmp),
       fprintf('%.4g %.4g %.4g\t%g\n',xyzt(1,j),xyzt(2,j),xyzt(3,j),tmp(j));
     end;
   end;
 end;


Best regards,
-John
  

Subject: Re: FDP template — SPM99 version
From: John Ashburner <john@FIL.ION.UCL.AC.UK>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:53:03 +0000 (11:53 EST)
To: SPM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

> Those who use the FDG template should know that is was created for SPM99,
> and is thus in the standard orientation for that program, which is the
> opposite from that used in SPM2b.
>
> I believe that John Ashburner has agreed to convert to MINC format for use
> in SPM2b.

Converting from SPM99 to SPM2b templates can be pretty easy. In this case, the
command was (all one line):

rawtominc -transverse -short -signed -range 0 32767 -real_range 0 32767
-orange 0 32767 -xstep 2 -ystep 2 -zstep 2 -xstart -90 -ystart -126
-zstart -72 -xdircos 1 0 0 -ydircos 0 1 0 -zdircos 0 0 1 -pet FDG.mnc
91 109 91 < template_FDG_PET_OSEM_seg.img

The converted template can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/spm2b_updates/templates/

rawtominc can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/minc/

Note that the simple conversion only applies to SPM99 templates in
Analyze format. If you do the same with SPM2b generated templates,
then you will need to do a left-right flip to them first.

Best regards,
-John

Subject: Re: spm2b: spm_header_edit.m
From: John Ashburner <john@FIL.ION.UCL.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:09:38 +0000 (14:09 EST)
To: SPM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

> Following your previous answer it looks like the origin is indeed set to
> the new value in the header, but also the  .mat file is written. In this
> file, I find two matrices: M and mat. I noticed that they are identical if
> defaults.analyze.flip = 0 but if defaults.analyze.flip = 1 one of them is
> flipped (M(1,4)=-mat(1,4)). Why are there two transformation matrices?

Backwards compatibility.  The M variable is for compatibility with SPM99,
whereas the mat variable is the one used for SPM2.  Images produced by
SPM2b that have a .mat file should be compatible between analyses with
different defaults.analyze.flip settings.  In other words, reading the
orientation of images with .mat files containing the mat field does not
require identifying the value of defaults.analyze.flip.  However, if the
orientation etc is read from an SPM99 .mat file, or from the .hdr, then
the defaults.analyze.flip variable is consulted.

If a .mat file exists, then it is read, otherwise the relevant information
is taken from the .hdr and defaults.analyze.flip.  If a mat variable exists
in the mat file then it is used, otherwise the orientation is derived from
the M variable and defaults.analyze.flip.

Best regards,
-John