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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello. I'm trying to follow the <a href="https://nilearn.github.io/auto_examples/plot_decoding_tutorial.html#sphx-glr-auto-examples-plot-decoding-tutorial-py">tutorial on Nilearn for decoding</a>, only using my own data which is event related. I used SPM to create unique beta images for each trial in my dataset as recommended. But since this is a different approach from the Haxby dataset I'm a little unclear on how to follow along now. I wonder if I could get some feedback on what I have done so far.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I created a dataframe with the trial event labels and paired each trial with its respective beta image. I did this by reading in each beta file and masking it with a previously made 6mm ROI (not quite sure how to make an anatomical mask yet), which left me with a 1x120 array where 120 is the number of voxels for that trial event within the mask. I don't know if this is correct... Since I have 82 events in this task, I created an 82x120 matrix containing all of these masked beta images as rows, voxel data as columns, and concatenated this onto my dataframe containing trial-by-trial task info. My plan was to then use these 120 voxels as features and my experimental condition column (it's just binary data) as the labels.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The problem is I get to the NiftiMasker and receive this warning: </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>`UserWarning: Standardization of 3D signal has been requested but would lead to zero values. Skipping.</p><p class=MsoNormal> warnings.warn('Standardization of 3D signal has been requested but '` <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>ß</span> not a typo</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think this has to do with the fact that these are beta images for events rather than an entire block, so there is no time dimension? But I'm not sure because I am quite unfamiliar with this. For example in the tutorial it says that the variable "fmri_masked" is an array with shape `time x voxels`. The array that I get is of course 1 x 120, which makes sense given the event-related design, but the tutorial doesn't mention anything about this.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think I've misunderstood something. What should I really be doing differently in the case of an event-related design with trial-wise betas? Feedback would be greatly appreciated!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best</p><p class=MsoNormal>L</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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