Notes on Scripting, Batching and Tasking for SPM5

• Why Script?

  • A large part of SPM code is complex housekeeping related to files and directories
  • Tailoring requires attention to these housekeeping matters

    • Have I got the right files?

  • Need to create novel suite of analyses out of a number of core modules
  • Intercommunication via the SPM.mat structure

    BitOfScript

    AllGorySpmMat ["MYV"]

• Why Batch?
  • Need to perform same or similar analyses on several datasets

• Spm5Tasks

  • How to access them
  • What they do
  • Job/task manager can be extended

  • To be clarified: there may be some undocumented functionality for linking up tasks in sequence so that output of one task become the input to the next.

  ["Jobs3"]
• Other approaches
  • aa -- Rhodri Cusack's Automatic Analysis modules

    • AutomaticAnalysisIntroduction

PetModelAutomation5