[pymvpa] Searchligh SVM on fMRI Beta Values in PyMVPA

[Yaroslav O Halchenko]

On Fri, 24 May 2019, Alireza Karami wrote:

>    Hi
>    I have a dataset of an fMRI experiment and I have preprocessed the data
>    and done first level analysis. Now, I want to do searchlight SVM on the
>    beta values like the demo fmri searchlight lda [1] in CoSMoMVPA. I want to
>    do this with PyMVPA. I know how to do searchlight SVM on raw fMRI data in

you probably never want to do searchlight SVM on truly "raw" data -- at
least motion correction etc should be done ;)

>    PyMVPA [2] but I do not know how to import beta values as a dataset in
>    PyMVPA and do searchlight SVM on them.

nothing should change for your code -- just load from your .nii.gz with
beta values (the same fmri_dataset, can give it a list of filenames with
betas), assign targets/chunks, might want to do zscoring or not
depending on how many categories and total # of betas etc, and do
whatever you were doing on "raw" data.

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