[Freesurfer] QA on wmparc.mgz

2010-12-20 Thread Jeff Sadino
Hello, I am trying to verify the wmparc.mgz segmentations. I have identified outlier regions statistically, but then when I load up the wmparc.mgz file to QA visually, I find it is very difficult to QA the white matter regions. The problem is that because there is no contrast in the white matter

Re: [Freesurfer] Downloading v4.5.0

2010-12-20 Thread Nick Schmansky
replace http with ftp, and it should work. n. > Hi, > > When I try to download v4.5.0 (Mac version) from the Archive, it seems > like > the file is missing/unavailable? > > http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/4.5.0/freesurfer-Darwi > n-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v4.5.0-full.dmg >

[Freesurfer] Downloading v4.5.0

2010-12-20 Thread Chester Kang
Hi, When I try to download v4.5.0 (Mac version) from the Archive, it seems like the file is missing/unavailable? http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/4.5.0/freesurfer-Darwi n-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v4.5.0-full.dmg Have also tried the mirrors link but that is down also. Could s

Re: [Freesurfer] Amygdala subregions

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Lin, that is under development. We don't have anything we are ready to distribute at this time. Hopefully within the next year though. cheers Bruce On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Lin Nga wrote: > Hi all, > > Please excuse my naive question; I am new to FreeSurfer. I am trying to > segment amygdala su

[Freesurfer] Amygdala subregions

2010-12-20 Thread Lin Nga
Hi all, Please excuse my naive question; I am new to FreeSurfer. I am trying to segment amygdala subregions and can't quite figure out how to do this. I didn't find anything in the tutorials or the freesurfer archives; if there is any documentation on how to do this, could someone point me in the

[Freesurfer] black screen when using tksurfer

2010-12-20 Thread Amir Tahmasebi
Hi there, When I am using the "tksurfer" command for visualization, I only get a black screen: tksurfer $subject rh inflated There is no error reported at the command prompt except for a warning: No colortable found! Here is the version of the freesurfer I am using: freesurfer-Linux-centos4

Re: [Freesurfer] Sulci segmentation

2010-12-20 Thread FIDEL ALFARO ALMAGRO
Then I am not doing the question propperly, and I obviously did not understand the basis of tksurfer :) I am going to work in Matlab, and I just wanted to use the output of Freesurfer to help me with my algorithm, so I am not going to use neither tkmedit nor tksurfer. Hence, I do not exactly need

Re: [Freesurfer] Sulci segmentation

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Fidel the surfaces of the same hemi for a given subject area all topologically equivalent and share an index structure. what that means is that the vertex label/annotation can be shown/used on any surface, including the ?h.white and ?h.pial surfaces (which is probably what you want). Or you

Re: [Freesurfer] Sulci segmentation

2010-12-20 Thread FIDEL ALFARO ALMAGRO
Thanks mr Fischl, but these surfaces are a deformation of the original brain (According to what I have read in the wiki). My intention is to write an algorithm to do some operations on the original images, using the sulci information from freesurfer. In order to do that, I would need the sulci info

[Freesurfer] Whole Surface SNR Calculation for Individual Functional Runs

2010-12-20 Thread Adam Nitenson
Hello Freesurfers, We are beginning to perform QC on our subjects and want to look at signal to noise ratio. I've taken a look at the fsnr.nii overlay files, but we would like to be able to calculate a whole surface value for SNR for each functional run of each subject, so that we can exclude

Re: [Freesurfer] Sulci segmentation

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
the gyral/sulcal segmentations are generated on the surfaces and viewable in tksurfer. For example: tksurfer lh inflated -aparc will bring up and show the lh.aparc.annot on top of the inflated surface. You can also load them from the tksurfer interface using file->label->import annotation c

[Freesurfer] Sulci segmentation

2010-12-20 Thread FIDEL ALFARO ALMAGRO
Hi, I am pretty new in freesurfer and I do not know if this question has been answered before (It is difficult to search for 1 basic question), so I will post it anyways: - Is there any segmentation/labeling in freesurfer that allows the user to identify all the sulci of an MR image? I have done

Re: [Freesurfer] ICV differs systematically in repeated measurements

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
probably. The T2* will be different, so you'll have a different TE and different contrast, SNR and CNR On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Anthony Dick wrote: > Would this problem also apply for fMRI or diffusion weighted scanning? > > On 12/20/10 10:41 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: >> Hi Anthony, >> >> I don't thin

Re: [Freesurfer] ICV differs systematically in repeated measurements

2010-12-20 Thread Anthony Dick
Would this problem also apply for fMRI or diffusion weighted scanning? On 12/20/10 10:41 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > I don't think so. The problem is that the fundamental T1 contrast is > different at 3T than att 1.5T, which results in systematic biases. > > cheers > Bruce > On Mon,

Re: [Freesurfer] ICV differs systematically in repeated measurements

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Anthony, I don't think so. The problem is that the fundamental T1 contrast is different at 3T than att 1.5T, which results in systematic biases. cheers Bruce On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Anthony Dick wrote: > This is just a thought, but is this issue mitigated to some degree if > you can show that

Re: [Freesurfer] ICV differs systematically in repeated measurements

2010-12-20 Thread Anthony Dick
This is just a thought, but is this issue mitigated to some degree if you can show that the regions in which you are interested meet a certain minimum signal to noise ratio? Or maybe a more stringent requirement would be necessary, such that the SNR of the ROIs don't differ significantly? Alwa

Re: [Freesurfer] ICV differs systematically in repeated measurements

2010-12-20 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Diederick, In a longitudinal study you need to ensure identical acquisition and processing, else you'll introduce a systematic bias. Some of my recent analyses indicate that even updating the software on the scanner can bias your results. Hardware changes are worse. Best Martin On Dec 20,

[Freesurfer] tkmedit white matter editing

2010-12-20 Thread Micheli, C.
Dear all I am using the tkmedit GUI to add/erase pixel in a slice-wise fashion in order to subsequently apply a tessellation on the white matter. I launch the command cd subject/mri tkmedit -f brain.mgz -aux wm.mgz from linux shell (64bit CentOS), where brain.mgz is the anatomical MRI and wm is

[Freesurfer] R: ICV differs systematically in repeated measurements

2010-12-20 Thread Paola Valsasina
Dear Diederick, were all subjects acquired at point 1 with 1.5T and at point 2 with 3T? Or was the same subject acquired with the same scanner at both timepoints? In the first case, could it be simply a problem of scanner-related variability of ICV assessment (different scanner – different seque

[Freesurfer] ICV differs systematically in repeated measurements

2010-12-20 Thread Diederick Stoffers
Hi all, I have a dataset with AD patients that were scanned twice, once at 1.5T and once at 3T at an interval of a few years. The ICV values are lower for almost all subjects at timepoint two (FS 5.0). Isn't ICV in the later FS versions supposed to be independent of brain volume as it is based