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### Correlations among nuisance regressors
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This may also be addressed in more depth by the confounds and regressors documentation (link to page)
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Can be used to diagnose partial volume effects
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PVE indicated by high correlations of a confound time series (or several) with the global signal
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This report presents a plot of correlations among confound regressors. The left-hand panel shows the matrix of correlations among selected confound time series as a heat-map. The right-hand panel displays the correlation of selected confound time series with the mean global signal computed across the whole brain; the regressors shown are those with greatest correlation with the global signal. These plots can be used to guide selection of a confound model or to assess the extent to which tissue-specific regressors correlate with global signal.; e.g if two regressors are highly correlated, it is recommended to include in the confound model only one of the two.
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[NEEDS COMPLETION]
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* Selection of a confound model
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* Good:
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* Carefully choose a serie of regressors that are not highly correlated to include in the confound model.
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* Bad:
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* Include in the confound model two regressors that are highly correlated
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* Common pitfall in interpreptation:
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* The CompCor components do not correlate with each other by construction. As such, a block of zero-correlation is visible near the diagonal.
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* Assessement of partial volume effect
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* Good:
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* Bad:
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* High correlation of confound time series with the global signal is an indicator of high partial volume effect.
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### ICA-AROMA
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What you’re looking at:

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