Hi,
I would like to use ART and then add the output files to the confound list for the denoising step in CONN to my already preprocessed rs-fmri files that have been slice time corrected, realigned, segmented, normalized and smoothed in SPM, is this a problem? or is this just an issue if I use the depsiking option? I plan to specify the swra*.nii files for my preprocessed functional images and the wT1.nii for my structural images. I would add the rp*a.nii and the outliers.mat file to the confound list in the denoising tab to regress these out. After that I plan to perform 1st level analysis in CONN and then 2nd level analysis in SPM.

Another question I have is whether it is possible to remove the first four volumes in CONN prior to performing the denoising step on my data that has already been preprocessed in SPM?

Thanks!