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
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