This guide explains how to perform a Compartmentalization analysis.
It guides you how to set up a study focused on the interactions and of the relationships between compartments of the structure under evaluation.
Performing compartmentalization analysis
The compartments operator
The Compartments Operator allows to set the structures hierarchy to be used to evaluate the relationships between levels. Several nested levels are possible as well as two or more compartments at the same hierarchical basis.
Structures relationship settings
Open the Tag relationship panel. From this panel, various options can be defined.
The following options (rules) are available:
Child object must be completely inside the parent structure.
Check whether a "child" object is partially covered by a "parent" structure. You can set the minimum amount of overlap using either the slider or the text box.
The Min. Overlap value defines the percentage of the child object volume that must be covered by the parent structure to be considered as compartmentalized.
If you choose 0%, it still checks whether there is at least 1 voxel of coverage.
Note
The selected parent TAG, as well as the child TAG can label more objects. For any object in the Parent TAG, all the child objects are compared to it in order to establish their belonging.
Child object must be located within the max. distance value (The children distances are taken outside the parent structure only)
These 3 options can be set independently or in combination between them.