[Freesurfer] delete skull part in GM by tkmedit

2013-12-02 Thread Rujing Zha
Dear all, I have read the troubleshooting in the website http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/ControlPoints_tktools. I want to know if thereis a similar method to remove skull part in GM? I donot want to use -gcut and watershed option. I think control point method is better than

Re: [Freesurfer] DTI - tracula - satisfactory cntrl pnts

2013-12-02 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Skyler - I would *highly* recommend using the version of tracula in 5.3, as there have been improvements in both performance and speed. You can check the DWI to anatomical registration by overlaying the aparc+aseg from the dlabel/diff directory (which is in diffusion space) on the FA map.

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_vol2surf

2013-12-02 Thread Arash Nazeri
Thank you very much for all the help. > On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Douglas N Greve > wrote: > > >> On 12/01/2013 11:40 PM, Arash Nazeri wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I wanted to make sure how one could assign intensities from the >> subjacent white matter voxels to the cortical surfaces using mr

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all strip skull and neck by brain volume mask

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
when you say there is some skull considered to be gray matter, do you mean in the aseg or does the pial surface contain it? If it's the aseg then it probably doesn't matter as we don't use the asegs for cortical stuff in any case cheers Bruce On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Rujing Zha wrote: Dear Louis,

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all strip skull and neck by brain volume mask

2013-12-02 Thread Rujing Zha
Dear Louis, Thanks for your helpful prompt in advance. I see. In my case, there is a not properly stripping, there is a not properly gray matter(there are a some skull considered as gray matter). Did you mean I can draw the segmentation without considering the skull stripping? And a bad brainmas

Re: [Freesurfer] viewing slices dynamically by tkmedit

2013-12-02 Thread Rujing Zha
Hi Louis, Thanks for your helpful suggestion. Maybe I just click the "slice -/+" module if I want to view all the slices of one subject's volume in tkmedit. But I do not want to click the button continuously to view all the slices. I want to press a button/key once, then I can see all the slice

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-02 Thread André Ribeiro
Hi Martin, In November 27 I posted a similar question, which later I found a solution. See if it works for you. Hi Lilla, > Thank you for your reply. I have boost installed, yet it is not the > version required (v. 1.49). Although, even after installing an older > version such as the 1.41 it is n

Re: [Freesurfer] DTI - tracula - satisfactory cntrl pnts

2013-12-02 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Skyler - Are you using freesurfer 5.1 or 5.3? Most likely this issue is due to poor registration, either from the individual DWI to the individual T1, or from the individual T1 to the template space. Or it could be that there is a problem with the aparc+aseg. a.y On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Sky

[Freesurfer] DTI - tracula - satisfactory cntrl pnts

2013-12-02 Thread Skyler Gabriel Shollenbarger
Hi all, I've been running DTI using tracula (fs version 5) for over 1 week on 2 subjects. It appears that it is having difficulty finding satisfactory control point fit and has attempted over 1600 tries. Any help is greatly appreciated. See error below: INFO: Distances between consecutive poin

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Zeke, Thanks a lot for explanation. I think I will install centOS into a virtual machine for quick solution. I only need it to run CVS. Thanks and best regards, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 2.12.2013, at 22:50, Z K wrote: > > Martin, > > Upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net) is an executabl

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-02 Thread Z K
Martin, Upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net) is an executable packaging utility we run on all our binaries before shipping to reduce their overall size. One consequence of upx is that it changes the way the "file" and "ld" commands process the binaries. In this case it makes the "file" command say

Re: [Freesurfer] LONG stream questions

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi, so far that wiki page only had the commands for cross sectional runs. I added the commands for the longitudinal runs (see my mail and also the one for the surface mapping) to that page for future reference. Best, Martin On 12/02/2013 03:21 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: > For #2 you can use th

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: converting to fsaverage space

2013-12-02 Thread Paul Beach
Doug, Thank you for your very helpful suggestion. Indeed, doing so made it so I could quickly take any parts (or all) of each Greicius network and put them in individual subject space. In case this may help anyone else, the final series of commands were (in this case, for the whole anterior salie

Re: [Freesurfer] LONG stream questions

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
For #2 you can use the method described here http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsAnat-to-NativeAnat On 12/02/2013 03:01 PM, Martin Reuter wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > 1) it means that the voxel sizes across your images are different. Do > mri_info on the images to see what's going on. Usually t

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all inquiry

2013-12-02 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi David - I am not convinced that all the regisrtrations have worked well for this subject. The fact that some of the coordinates of the control points, which are mapped from template to individual space, are negative in individual space (see INFO messages in log file), means that some part

[Freesurfer] R: Re: Linear regression

2013-12-02 Thread stdp82
Tank you very much. A-Do you mean the partial correlation coeff (PCC) at each voxel averaged over region? Finally a linear regression is done between cortical thickness of a composite region and NPS. However the authors discuss every individual region as related to disease. So a table with parti

Re: [Freesurfer] LONG stream questions

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Ivan, 1) it means that the voxel sizes across your images are different. Do mri_info on the images to see what's going on. Usually this is no problem if the differences are tiny. Just a warning. 2) yes, the longs are all in the same space as the base, you can map images to the rawavg from

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all strip skull and neck by brain volume mask

2013-12-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rujing, Even if there is some skull/dura left after the skullstrip step in recon-all, it still may not negatively impact the surfaces. It might be worth running the remaining recon-all steps to see how the surfaces turn out. If you want to swap-in a better skullstripped volume into the re

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Zeke, Thanks for response. Well it was the first thing for me to try to compile boost on gentoo, which went fine. However the libraries were not compatible. Gentoo has 1.52 version, while the one needed is about 4 years old. When I do "ldd mris_resample" I get "not a dynamic executable" and

Re: [Freesurfer] viewing slices dynamically by tkmedit

2013-12-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rujing, You can use a tcl script to take several snapshots in tkmedit, then you could use the convert command (part of ImageMagick distro) or something similar to create an animated gif. With the convert command you would use the -adjoin and -delay flags. You could use one of the tcl scri

Re: [Freesurfer] Linear regression

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 12/02/2013 02:22 PM, std...@virgilio.it wrote: > Hi list, > > I have some questions, please. > > I performed linear regression by qdec to find the regions where the > cortical thinning correlates with neuropsychological test (NPS), > taking in account 3 nuisance factors. > > A- I individuated

Re: [Freesurfer] talairach_mixed_with_skull.gca file missing in average directory of local version stable5_3_0

2013-12-02 Thread Koene Van Dijk
Yes, that's correct! Thanks for the follow up ~koene On 12/2/13 2:27 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: > Hi Koene, > It looks like Nick copied that volume over on 11/27. Thanks for > pointing that out. > -Louis > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Koene Van Dijk wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> We've been using t

Re: [Freesurfer] talairach_mixed_with_skull.gca file missing in average directory of local version stable5_3_0

2013-12-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Koene, It looks like Nick copied that volume over on 11/27. Thanks for pointing that out. -Louis On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Koene Van Dijk wrote: > Hi there, > > We've been using this local version of Freesurfer: > /cluster/freesurfer/centos6_x86_64/stable5 > > And this file was relevant: > /clust

Re: [Freesurfer] Fixed-Effects Analysis carried out by mri_glmfit

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
yep, you should be able to do that On 12/02/2013 02:08 PM, Clark Fisher wrote: > Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. With your modified approach, maybe > I could even work the scalings into the contrast weights? Thanks for the > feedback. > > -Clark > > > On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Doug

[Freesurfer] Linear regression

2013-12-02 Thread stdp82
Hi list, I have some questions, please. I performed linear regression by qdec to find the regions where the cortical thinning correlates with neuropsychological test (NPS), taking in account 3 nuisance factors. A- I individuated some posterior regions and now I'd like to build a table with part

Re: [Freesurfer] Fixed-Effects Analysis carried out by mri_glmfit

2013-12-02 Thread Clark Fisher
Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. With your modified approach, maybe I could even work the scalings into the contrast weights? Thanks for the feedback. -Clark On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: > > Hi Clark, I think Approach A should work ok. As you imply, there co

Re: [Freesurfer] Fixed-Effects Analysis carried out by mri_glmfit

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Clark, I think Approach A should work ok. As you imply, there could be different scalings, so take that into account somehow. A slightly modified approach would be do define a different set of conditions for each subject in the paradigm file. They create a contrast with mkcontrast-sess that

Re: [Freesurfer] Fixed-Effects Analysis carried out by mri_glmfit

2013-12-02 Thread Clark Fisher
Hi Doug (and other Freesurfers), Hope you had a pleasant Thanksgiving. My thread last left off before everyone left for the holidays. I just wanted to re-raise this question, as it's still a pressing one for me. Thanks, Clark On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Clark Fisher mailto:cfis...@rockef

Re: [Freesurfer] glmfit error on v5.1

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
The problem is in the noE4female group. You only have 3 subjects and the zAPOB and thickness are nearly equal and opposite in sign. The correlation between these two regressors exceeds .96. This is probably spurious, but it is killing the design matrix. doug On 12/02/2013 11:44 AM, Gabriel Go

Re: [Freesurfer] glmfit error on v5.1

2013-12-02 Thread Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla
There you are!Hope it helps- Mensaje original -De: Douglas N Greve Fecha: Lunes, 2 de Diciembre de 2013, 5:09 pmAsunto: Re: [Freesurfer] glmfit error on v5.1A: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Can you send the matrix that it creates?> > On 12/02/2013 06:09 AM, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrot

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-02 Thread Z K
Martin, libboost is not a static library, it is a shared library. It comes by default on centOS platforms and freesurfer compiles against it during the the build process. Typing 'ldd mris_resample' and examining the output confirms this: $>ldd mris_resample linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x7fffd2773

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_vol2surf

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 12/01/2013 11:40 PM, Arash Nazeri wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to make sure how one could assign intensities from the > subjacent white matter voxels to the cortical surfaces using mri_vol2surf. > > Based on the documentation page --projfrac, if used with negative > values, would assign whit

Re: [Freesurfer] nuisance factors in QDEC

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 12/02/2013 09:05 AM, Yolanda Vives wrote: > Dear FreeSurfer experts, > > I am performing a DODS analysis with QDEC to compare cortical > thickness of patients and controls and I have some questions regarding > the nuisance factors age and global cortical thickness. > > 1.- Should I demean bot

Re: [Freesurfer] glmfit error on v5.1

2013-12-02 Thread Douglas N Greve
Can you send the matrix that it creates? On 12/02/2013 06:09 AM, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrote: > Dear Freesurfer experts, > > Sorry for the inconvenience but I posted this message last week, but I > did not receive any answer. I really need to keep going on with my > analyses. > > > I have r

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all inquiry

2013-12-02 Thread David Soto
hi - thanks , not sure though...the no_dif brain mask seems ok, if that is what you meant... I did re-run the processing and in the last run I can not see the WARN you mentioned the latest preprocessing output from the preprocessing can be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8209026/

[Freesurfer] nuisance factors in QDEC

2013-12-02 Thread Yolanda Vives
Dear FreeSurfer experts, I am performing a DODS analysis with QDEC to compare cortical thickness of patients and controls and I have some questions regarding the nuisance factors age and global cortical thickness. 1.- Should I demean both variables or only the age? 2.- Which of the following opt

[Freesurfer] recon-all strip skull and neck by brain volume mask

2013-12-02 Thread Rujing Zha
Dear all, Part of subjects 3d images cannot be stripped skull and neck properly in recon-all default. I have got the brain volume mask, how I can using the existing proper mask to help strip skull in recon-all and next workflow? Thanks.Any reply will be appreciated. All the best. 2013-12-02 R

[Freesurfer] glmfit error on v5.1

2013-12-02 Thread Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla
Dear Freesurfer experts,Sorry for the inconvenience but I posted this message last week, but I did not receive any answer. I really need to keep going on with my analyses.I have runned the following command line:mri_glmfit --surf PLI_MCI_sample7_avg lh --C /root/trabajo/freesurfer/subjects/PLI

Re: [Freesurfer] Bedpost Not successfully completed

2013-12-02 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Emily - Sorry for responding late due to traveling. Does bedpostx not run at all, or does it stop half-way? What files if any have been created in the dmri.bedpostX directory? a.y On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, ebell...@uwm.edu wrote: > Hello, > > I am finding that my bedposting is not completing su

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: Minimum Dti directions and odf

2013-12-02 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Sal - I apologize for the late response due to traveling. With tracula we have certainly used 30 direction data. It shouldn't be a problem, since tracula fits the ball-and-stick model of diffusion of Behrens et al 2007, which has been shown to give reasonable results fitting 2 crossing fibe

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all inquiry

2013-12-02 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi David - Sorry for the delayed response due to traveling. There's a warning about the right ILF in the log file that may offer a clue: WARN: Initial control point 37 56 -6 is not in DWI volume - is DWI cropped? WARN: Replacing with closest point in volume (37 56 0) WARN: Initial control poi

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness/surface area in volume-defined ROIs

2013-12-02 Thread Anita van Loenhoud
Hi Bruce, Thank you for your response. Now at least I know what went wrong; I'll try your solution. Thanks! Anita ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information