Dear FreeSurfer experts:

I have been using FreeSurfer for segmentation and for volumetric analyses. I 
want to give a try to use it for surface-based fMRI analyses.

I encountered some issues with mris_preproc to assemble IRF results to the 
fsaverage surface. Please advise on how to resolve these issues.

Here is what I did:

After finishing "recon-all" on each subject, I ran this following on each 
subject.

bbregister --mov reg_cat_TSall_before_blur.nii --bold --s freesurfer --init-fsl 
--lta register.lta

"reg_cat_TSall_before_blur.nii" is the EPI fMRI time series assembled together.

Then I calculated the IRF percent signal changes for different conditions. 
"sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii" is for one condition.

Now I want to assemble the "sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii" from each subject and put 
them on the fsaverage surface. I got the following errors:

mris_preproc --hemi rh --o rh.fsaverage.sumEA.mgh \
        --iv S00720110927_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S00720110927_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S01420110908_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S01420110908_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S01520110811_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S01520110811_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S02520110927_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02520110927_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S02720111028_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02720111028_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S02820111107_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02820111107_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S02920111108_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02920111108_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S03020120703_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03020120703_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S03120120726_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03120120726_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S03620120727_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03620120727_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S03720120809_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03720120809_Free/register.lta \
        --iv S03920120807_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03920120807_Free/register.lta

ERROR: number of input volumes (12) does not equal number of subjects (48)

mris_preproc --hemi rh --o rh.fsaverage.sumEA.mgh \
        --iv S00720110927_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S00720110927_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S01420110908_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S01420110908_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S01520110811_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S01520110811_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S02520110927_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02520110927_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S02720111028_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02720111028_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S02820111107_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02820111107_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S02920111108_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S02920111108_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S03020120703_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03020120703_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S03120120726_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03120120726_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S03620120727_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03620120727_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S03720120809_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03720120809_Free/register.dat \
        --iv S03920120807_Free/sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii 
S03920120807_Free/register.dat

nsubjects = 12
ERROR: cannot find ./freesurfer

Under each subject directory, for example, "S00720110927_Free", I have the 
following data structure (The "freesurfer" storing the "recon-all" FreeSurfer 
results.):

circ2:/fmri/PI/liu/rdl_afni/S00720110927_Free> ls
freesurfer                  lh.sum_all_norm_IRF_MA.mgh     register.dat.mincost 
       rh.sum_all_norm_IRF_HA.mgh  sum_all_norm_IRF_HS.nii
fsaverage                   lh.sum_all_norm_IRF_MS.mgh     register.dat.param   
       rh.sum_all_norm_IRF_HS.mgh  sum_all_norm_IRF_MA.nii
lh.EC_average               mprage_nudge_RAI.nii.gz        register.dat.sum     
       rh.sum_all_norm_IRF_MA.mgh  sum_all_norm_IRF_MS.nii
lh.sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.mgh  reg_cat_TSall_before_blur.nii  register.lta         
       rh.sum_all_norm_IRF_MS.mgh  surfer.log
lh.sum_all_norm_IRF_ES.mgh  register.dat                   rh.EC_average        
       sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.nii
lh.sum_all_norm_IRF_HA.mgh  register.dat~                  
rh.sum_all_norm_IRF_EA.mgh  sum_all_norm_IRF_ES.nii
lh.sum_all_norm_IRF_HS.mgh  register.dat.log               
rh.sum_all_norm_IRF_ES.mgh  sum_all_norm_IRF_HA.nii

Thank you.

David Zhu

_______________________________________________
Freesurfer mailing list
Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer


The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is
addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail
contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at
http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error
but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly
dispose of the e-mail.

Reply via email to