help > RE: Skip denoising
Feb 8, 2015  01:02 PM | Alfonso Nieto-Castanon - Boston University
RE: Skip denoising
Dear Gustavo,

This error indicates that your functional data (for the first subject/session) contains no voxels of interest, so the most likely reason would be perhaps a misalignment between the mask used for functional analyses (defined in Setup.Options.AnalysisSpace and Setup.Options.AnalysisMask) and your functional data (entered in Setup.Functionals). If your data is in subject-space (not MNI-normalized) then simply select 'Same as functionals' in Setup.Options.AnalysisSpace and 'Implicit mask' in Setup.Options.AnalysisMask. Alternatively if your data is normalized please check whether the coregistration between the chosen analysis mask and your functional data seems correct (e.g. using SPM 'check coregistration') and select an alternative mask otherwise.  

Let me know if that seems to fix this issue (the 'skipping the denoising step' procedure you are using looks perfectly correct, no issues there)
Best
Alfonso
Originally posted by Gustavo Pamplona:
Dear CONN experts,

I want to analyze some almost raw data, so I only performed the realignment, coregister, and spatial smoothing in SPM before insert the data in CONN fields. It may seem strange but I don't want to perform the denoising to get the access to the first-level analysis, so I did not put any confounds to improve the original data, chose no detrending and wrote [0 Inf] in band-pass filter. I know I'm gonna get very noise data, but that's intentional.
However, in the 3rd step of denoising, I got this error message:

ERROR DESCRIPTION:

Error using conn_process (line 877)
Empty data (samples=400,voxels=0) in file C:\Gustavo\Imagens\Neurofeedback\dados_angelo2\data\DATA_Subject001_Session001.mat
Error in conn_process (line 17)
case {'preprocessing_gui','denoising_gui'}, disp(['CONN: RUNNING PREPROCESSING STEP']); conn_process([1.5,2,6:9],varargin{:});
Error in conn (line 2181)
conn_process('preprocessing_gui');
Error in conn_menumanager (line 102)
feval(CONN_MM.MENU{n0}.callback{n1}{1},CONN_MM.MENU{n0}.callback{n1}{2:end});
CONN v.14.n
SPM8 + Beamforming DEM FieldMap MEEGtools
Matlab v.2013a

Could someone please show me what's wrong and tell me how to skip the denoising step?
Thanks in advance!

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Gustavo Pamplona Feb 4, 2015
RE: Skip denoising
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Feb 8, 2015
Gustavo Pamplona Feb 10, 2015
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Feb 11, 2015
Gustavo Pamplona Feb 10, 2015
Gustavo Pamplona Feb 10, 2015