yes, we have code that builds a spatial lookup table, and uses it to do a fast lookup of the closest vertex (it is in mrishash.c).

cheers
Bruce


On Mon, 24 Dec 2018, ts...@rcmd.org wrote:

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Dear Bruce,

thanks for the answer, makes sense. I just wanted to ask: does any FreeSurfer 
tool solve the same problem? Because if so, I guess it would make sense if my 
code used the same algorithm.

Tim

On December 20, 2018 at 5:54 PM Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:


Hi Tim

yes, you can use min Euclidean distance as a metric but it may not be
terribly stable, since the center of a voxel might be close to equidistant
from two banks of a sulcus.  Particularly in cases where there is a
thickness asymmetry, like the central sulcus. You might need to do
something else, like ensuring the dot product of neighboring voxels with
the same aparc label is not negative

cheers
Bruce


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Dear FreeSurfer experts,


given a voxel in the cortex of the fsaverage subject, I would like to find the 
vertex on the surface that corresponds to the voxel (e.g., if volume data would 
be projected to the surface).

I found the documentation at http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/CoordinateSystems, 
which helped me a lot, but it would be great if someone could comment on 
whether or not what I'm doing is correct:

This seems to be use case 4 on the page (bottom), so I would:
1) get the affine matrix by running:
  mri_info --vox2ras-tkr $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects/fsaverage/mri/orig.mgz
2) Apply the matrix to my voxel x, y, z to get the coords

At this point I'm not sure how to get the vertex. Should I just compute the 
distance from the coords to all vertices and pick the one with minimal 
Euclidian distance?


Tim

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University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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