[Freesurfer] not all taskreg in design matrix

2012-05-02 Thread Caspar M. Schwiedrzik
Hi, I am trying to use mkanalysis-sess in version 5.1 with 5 external regressors. I have prepared them as individual text files. When I run mkanalysis-sess -force -notask -a lot of other stuff -taskreg seed1 1 -taskreg seed2 1 -taskreg seed3 1 -taskreg seed4 1 -taskreg seed5 1 -nuisreg global.wave

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about version upgrade

2012-05-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
Thanks Derin. Can you send us a 4.5 case where the WM edits are disappearing in 5.1? doug On 05/02/2012 04:42 PM, Derin J Cobia wrote: > FWIW, in our experience this isn't always the case. When re-running edited > and "cleared" subjects in 4.5.0 up to 5.1.0, we have had to return and > re-edit

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about version upgrade

2012-05-02 Thread Derin J Cobia
FWIW, in our experience this isn't always the case. When re-running edited and "cleared" subjects in 4.5.0 up to 5.1.0, we have had to return and re-edit the vast majority of these individuals order to obtain accurate surfaces. To be specific, we are not finding control points or pial edits disa

Re: [Freesurfer] load multiple overlays with different colors

2012-05-02 Thread keepmoon
Dear Michael, Thank you for your answer! I will try it! but I have no knowledge about Python. I have some Matlab code. Maybe I first wait Doug's answer. If his answer is a little easier to understand for me, I will share here. Thanks Regards Kathy On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Michael Wa

Re: [Freesurfer] load multiple overlays with different colors

2012-05-02 Thread keepmoon
Dear Doug, Thank you for your reply soon. I would like to know further instructions for doing this. Thanks Best wishes Kathy On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: > Hi Kathy, there is not an easy way to do this. The closest thing you > could do would be to create an annot

[Freesurfer] asegstats2table problem

2012-05-02 Thread Brain Apprentice
Hello Surfers, Command: asegstats2table --skip --delimiter comma --common-segs --stats=lh.BA.stats --meas volume --tablefile V5vo-BA-lh.csv --subjectsfile=a.txt I am trying to create a table of "lh.BA.stats" values where all subject are listed in a.txt. asegstats2table tries to work however ther

[Freesurfer] mri_convert error

2012-05-02 Thread Kambiz Tavabi
Hello, The command mri_convert -it dicom -ot mgz 0001_9746dc8ab0544b3c8460cc2925682ba3.dcm 001.mgz gives the following output: mri_convert -it dicom -ot mgz 0001_9746dc8ab0544b3c8460cc2925682ba3.dcm 001.mgz $Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.179.2.2 2011/05/16 20:53:47 greve Exp $ reading from 0001_9746dc8a

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about version upgrade

2012-05-02 Thread Nick Schmansky
Efrat, Another point is whether it is worth the time to re-run your subjects with 5.0.1. There is not much to be gained by doing so. Also, we're hoping to have a 5.2 release in a month or so, so you might want to wait anyway. Nick On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:55 -0400, Douglas N Greve wrote: > It

[Freesurfer] surfaceRAS to Talairach

2012-05-02 Thread Jordan Poppenk
Dear FreeSurfer experts, How does one properly convert from surfaceRAS coords, as provided by fs_read_surf.m, to talairach coords? I have tried using freesurfer_surf2tal.m posted on the web by Darren Weber, supplying it with transform data from transforms/talairach.xfm, but the values returned

Re: [Freesurfer] load multiple overlays with different colors

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Waskom
Hi, If you're somewhat handy with Python, you can use PySurfer for this. See this example: http://pysurfer.github.com/auto_examples/plot_fmri_conjunction.html Best, Michael On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:51 AM, keepmoon wrote: > Dear all, > > I search my question before I post it. I did find similar

Re: [Freesurfer] correlation coefficient

2012-05-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Tanja, we don't have a turn-key way to do this, but you can do it in matlab using this function: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/flat/greve/fast_glm_pcc.m, something like: cd glmdir beta = MRIread('beta.mgh'); rvar = MRIread('rvar.mgh'); X = load('Xg.dat'); C = load('contr

Re: [Freesurfer] load multiple overlays with different colors

2012-05-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Kathy, there is not an easy way to do this. The closest thing you could do would be to create an annotation with those 3 colors based on the thresholded sig maps. Let me know if you want instructions to do this. doug On 05/02/2012 10:51 AM, keepmoon wrote: > Dear all, > > I search my question

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about version upgrade

2012-05-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
It's worth pointing out that your edits will be preserved, so it should just be computer time. On 05/02/2012 09:08 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Efrat, > > no, we don't recommend this, otherwise you run the risk of increasing > variance and introducing a bias. > > sorry > Bruce > On Wed, 2 May 201

Re: [Freesurfer] How to obtain cortical thickness in fsaverage space

2012-05-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
After running mri_glmfit-sim to get the clusters, there should be a file named something like cache.th20.abs.y.ocn.dat. This will have the thickness for each subject averaged over each cluster (a column for each cluster). doug On 05/02/2012 03:30 AM, ZhiLiangLong wrote: > Hi all: >After fin

[Freesurfer] load multiple overlays with different colors

2012-05-02 Thread keepmoon
Dear all, I search my question before I post it. I did find similar questions, but didn't find answer. I want to overlay two files with different colors. For example, one is sig1.mgh from cortical thickness, the other is sig2.mgh from area. I want to use tksurfer overlaying them with three colors:

Re: [Freesurfer] Freeview chrash

2012-05-02 Thread Focke, Niels
Dear Ruopeng, this happens with any surface, for example "bert" lh/rh.pial (that comes with Freesurfer). I have attached a locally generated surface as well, but I would guess that the problem is not the surface (files) but rather freeview itself or an incompatibility maybe with the Centos 5 libra

[Freesurfer] correlation coefficient

2012-05-02 Thread Tetiana Dadakova
Dear FS experts, I try to look at correlation between thickness and performance. I run mri_glmfit (using performance as covariate) and mri_glmfit-sim. After this I get some significant clusters. I would like to ask if I could get a correlation coefficient for these clusters, or/and a regression pl

Re: [Freesurfer] Freeview chrash

2012-05-02 Thread Ruopeng Wang
Would it be possible to send us the surface file that caused the crash? So that we can replicate the problem? Thanks, Ruopeng On 5/2/12 9:35 AM, Focke, Niels wrote: > Dear experts, > > I have experienced some problems with freeview. When loading a surface (both > for my locally generated surface

[Freesurfer] Freeview chrash

2012-05-02 Thread Focke, Niels
Dear experts, I have experienced some problems with freeview. When loading a surface (both for my locally generated surfaces as well as for "bert" surfaces) the program exits (progress bar at approx. 10%) with this message: MatrixMultiply: m2 is null! The problem happens both for command line lo

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about version upgrade

2012-05-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Efrat, no, we don't recommend this, otherwise you run the risk of increasing variance and introducing a bias. sorry Bruce On Wed, 2 May 2012, Efrat Kliper wrote: > > Dear FreeSurfer expert, > > > I am currently working on FreeSurfer Version 4.5.0 and already performed an > analysis for a

[Freesurfer] Question about version upgrade

2012-05-02 Thread Efrat Kliper
Dear FreeSurfer expert, I am currently working on FreeSurfer Version 4.5.0 and already performed an analysis for approximately 200 subjects. Is there a way to change the version that I am working on (4.5.0) to 5.0.1 without the need to run recon-all again in the new version? Thanks in advanced,

Re: [Freesurfer] How to obtain cortical thickness in fsaverage space

2012-05-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
I don't think there's a difference - the thicknesses are the same in fsaverage and individual space cheers Bruce On Wed, 2 May 2012, ZhiLiangLong wrote: Hi all:    After finishing group analysis, how can i obtain the thickness value of each ROIs showing significant group-difference in fsaverag

Re: [Freesurfer] Vertex wise analysis and area/pial area/volume interpretation

2012-05-02 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Mahinda, For question 1, if you use the new mris_preproc, as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg19821.html then yes, you are safe in computing the areas for each vertex. We have a recent paper that discuss current matters on pointwise area stuff, a

[Freesurfer] How to obtain cortical thickness in fsaverage space

2012-05-02 Thread ZhiLiangLong
Hi all: After finishing group analysis, how can i obtain the thickness value of each ROIs showing significant group-difference in fsaverage space? That is to say, how i get the value of each ROIs which have been normalized to the fsaverage template. The method suggested in tutorials page(ht