[Freesurfer] correct thinking?

2016-05-31 Thread Marja Caverlé
Hi guys, I just wanted to make sure I am understanding everything correct. I have done recon -all -all on all my subjects. Can I now just use the numbers in the .stats files to compare these with my other measures? It seems to be very (almost too) simple, so I that's why I am checking to see whet

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Jacobs H (NP)
Aha, Ok, I will try to get my hands on that data and give it a go. Thanks for the help! Heidi On 6/1/16, 4:01 AM, "Anastasia Yendiki" wrote: > >The input needs to be the diffusion-weighted images, not the FA, MD, etc. >There should be as many volumes in this input nifti as there are b-values >in

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
The input needs to be the diffusion-weighted images, not the FA, MD, etc. There should be as many volumes in this input nifti as there are b-values in bval file and gradient vectors in the bvec file. The image registration, tractography, etc etc is performed on the diffusion-weighted images,

[Freesurfer] mri_cc

2016-05-31 Thread Arash Nazeri
Dear Freesurfer experts, Sorry for resending this post. mri_cc does not seem to be working properly to parcellate corpus callosum. As per one of the previous posts, there is a bug in the current release of mri_cc. However, the link provided in the same thread for an updated version of mri_cc is n

Re: [Freesurfer] Extracting White Matter Structures without using Tracula

2016-05-31 Thread Syeda Wajiha Maryam
Hi Bruce, Our main concern is that we will be incorporating additional sources of error by doing so! But it seems there is no way to get around it. Thanks for the prompt response! Maryam On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Maryam > > why don't you want to use tracula? Th

Re: [Freesurfer] Extracting White Matter Structures without using Tracula

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Maryam why don't you want to use tracula? That is what it is designed for cheers Bruce On Tue, 31 May 2016, Syeda Wajiha Maryam wrote: > Hello Freesurfer experts, > > I am looking to extract certain white matter pathways (for instance, the > superior longitudinal fasciculus, uncinate fascic

[Freesurfer] Extracting White Matter Structures without using Tracula

2016-05-31 Thread Syeda Wajiha Maryam
Hello Freesurfer experts, I am looking to extract certain white matter pathways (for instance, the superior longitudinal fasciculus, uncinate fasciculus) with freesurfer which I believe are affected by Alzheimer's Disease. But it seems that these can only be obtained by performing tractography usi

Re: [Freesurfer] WM & GM Parcellation Edit

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
I see. Can you tell us a bit about the input data? It looks pretty blurry. I suspect that you have topological defects that are incorrectly fixed in those regions, probably because a bunch of the white matter was missed. Is the white matter significantly darker than 110 there? You could try some

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Jacobs H (NP)
Yes, each nifti contains one volume. I have different nifti’s for the different metrics (FA, MD,..) Is there a way I can use the trac-all on these files? On 5/31/16, 9:26 PM, "Anastasia Yendiki" wrote: > >Some of the errors make me suspect that your input DWI files contain only >one volume. Coul

Re: [Freesurfer] working with cluster annotations in fs-fast

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
We precluded the use of mris_anatomical_stats with fsaverage because by default it will not compute the area appropriately. You can use mri_segstats with --annot fsaverage lh yourparc --i $SUBJECTS_DIR/fsaverage/surf/lh.white.avg.area.mgh --accumulate --sum summary.stats On 05/31/2016 04:31

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
yes, typically it is a mistake that we want to catch cheers Bruce On Tue, 31 May 2016, Satrajit Ghosh wrote: > thank you doug, martin, and bruce. > martin: i believe she was doing this for motion correction > > i've attached the error this person observed below. so it does seem that > mri_robus

[Freesurfer] working with cluster annotations in fs-fast

2016-05-31 Thread Abigail Noyce
Hi folks, I'm trying to split a cluster from mri_glmfit-sim into two separate regions. (Ginormous blob of activation across multiple structures of interest...) I've gotten to the point of generating a new annotation with the separate labels for my separate regions, but am stuck getting a "cluster

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
thank you doug, martin, and bruce. martin: i believe she was doing this for motion correction i've attached the error this person observed below. so it does seem that mri_robust_template at present doesn't do any resampling. bruce: we can definitely see ways in which this could be done outside r

Re: [Freesurfer] WM & GM Parcellation Edit

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Shyam it's hard to give you an answer unless I understand what the source of your inaccuracy is. Perhaps you can point an image that is zoomed in on a region with arrows to indicate where you think things need improving? I don't really understand your image. If the green circles are control

Re: [Freesurfer] WM & GM Parcellation Edit

2016-05-31 Thread Limachia, Gaurang (NIH/NINDS) [F]
Yes the green circles are control points. The control points shown in the picture show surfaces we feel are not accurate. Additionally, how are we supposed to use the control points, do we place them on the inner most boundary of the WM? Also, going back to the original questions: How do you reco

Re: [Freesurfer] WM & GM Parcellation Edit

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Shyam can you add arrows to show where you don't think the surfaces are accurate? And are the green circles meant to be control points? If so, I'm surprised that didn't break everything since they need to be added to the interior of the WM. cheers Bruce On Tue, 31 May 2016, Limachia,

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Some of the errors make me suspect that your input DWI files contain only one volume. Could this be the case? On Tue, 31 May 2016, Jacobs H (NP) wrote: Hmm, weird, as I put a # in front of it. Putting the eddy current to 0 gives the same error. Enclosed is the config file. Thank you so much

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Satra it will probably reject this by default, which you can get around be reslicing one of them to be like the other. Or "conforming" both of them. cheers Bruce On Tue, 31 May 2016, Satrajit Ghosh wrote: > hi folks, > does recon-all work if the input T1s for the same participant have diffe

Re: [Freesurfer] Algebraic operations with scalars

2016-05-31 Thread Francesco Cardinale
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Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Jacobs H (NP)
Hmm, weird, as I put a # in front of it. Putting the eddy current to 0 gives the same error. Enclosed is the config file. Thank you so much Heidi On 5/31/16, 8:13 PM, "freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Anastasia Yendiki" wrote: > >Hi Heidi - It knows where to find the freesurf

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Heidi - It knows where to find the freesurfer recons of the T1's from SUBJECTS_DIR (see example config file). Based on your log file, it looks like you haven't turned off the eddy current compensation, because it's trying to run it. If you attach your config file, I'll take a look. Best, a

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Jacobs H (NP)
Thanks! I tried to adapt the configuration file and it got a bit further, but then crashes again. Not sure why? I have added the log file, so that maybe you could have a look at what is happening? Also, how does the trac-all command knows where to find the T1 data? Thanks Heidi On 5/31/16, 5:07 PM

Re: [Freesurfer] Algebraic operations with scalars

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
You can use mri_convert, like mri_convert lh.thickness --ascii lh.thickness.txt this will create a text file with a single column, one row for each vertex. You can also use mri_convert lh.thickness --ascii+crsf lh.thickness.txt This will create 5 columns, the first being the column number, th

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Martin Reuter
I see. Could be we specifically test for that and stop processing. It is a bad idea to average from different resolutions. Probably averaging is not even helpful at all, especially with newer images. Anyway, if someone points me at some data, I can take a look. Best, Martin On 05/31/2016 01:

Re: [Freesurfer] Retinotopy - Error in fast_selxavg3 (line 279)

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
It expects both polar and eccen. You can "fake" an eccentricity run by just copying one of the polar runs and calling it eccen On 05/31/2016 07:35 AM, Steinmann, Iris wrote: > > Dear freesurfers, > > I try to run a retinotopy analysis following the instruction on > > https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvar

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
I tried this recently and it failed. I did not pursue it any further On 05/31/2016 01:32 PM, Martin Reuter wrote: > Do you mean several inputs for motion correction (averaging), or for a > longitudinal study? > > I haven't tested it, but for averaging, we use mri_robust_template and > I see no r

Re: [Freesurfer] Group_analysis_FSGD_contrast_matrix

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
Sorry, not sure what you are asking. It sounds like you have exactly the situation in that web page except you have diagnosis as a factor instead of handedness. On 05/30/2016 09:39 AM, Hao wen wrote: > > Hello, FS experts: > > I am now doing the group analysis with covariates(age, gender), I am

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Martin Reuter
Do you mean several inputs for motion correction (averaging), or for a longitudinal study? I haven't tested it, but for averaging, we use mri_robust_template and I see no reason why it should not work. It probably reslices at the resolution of the first input to create rawavg and then conforms

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
No, I don't think it does On 05/31/2016 10:13 AM, Satrajit Ghosh wrote: > hi folks, > > does recon-all work if the input T1s for the same participant have > different resolutions? (i don't have a dataset to test, but trying to > debug some issues another group has been having). > > cheers, > > s

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about selxavg3-sess -no-con-ok

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
No, that just allows you to run selxavg3-sess without having specified any contrasts with mkcontrast-sess On 05/31/2016 08:05 AM, Leila Reddy wrote: > Sorry I meant to ask if the weight for the baseline/fixation is set to > -1 (not 0). > > Thanks, > Leila > > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 1:44 PM,

Re: [Freesurfer] correlation with glm

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
have you seen our worked-out examples? http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsgdExamples On 05/31/2016 03:39 AM, Clara Kühn wrote: > Dear FreeSurfer experts, > > I would like to correlate my thickness data with behavioral measures. Can I > do that with glmfit? If so, could you explain how to

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentation fault: Core dumped

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
It did not find any voxels in the ROI. This can happen for several reasons. First, check your registratoin (tkregister-sess). Second, it can happen because the size of the ROI is too small and does not occupy enough space in a voxel. Try changing the -fillthresh to something smaller than the de

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_preproc - srcsubjreg

2016-05-31 Thread Douglas N Greve
Sorry for the delay. This is because sphere.reg only applies to fsaverage. Previously, the specification of a different target would only influence smoothing done as part of mris_preproc; the registration would still be done to fsaverage. This is probably not the intent of people who are specif

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer V6 beta

2016-05-31 Thread Francis Tyson Thomas
Hi Bruce, Is there any new timeline regarding the release of the v6 beta? Because I'm currently waiting on that version for my project's work because of the new hipppocampal module and knowing that will help me a lot. Thanks, Tyson On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Tyson

[Freesurfer] Postdoctoral position available

2016-05-31 Thread Olivier Coulon
Dear list members, please find below a link to a postdoc position annoucement that might be of interest, in the field of cortical morphometry for developmental studies and autism. http://www.meca-brain.org/2016/05/31/we-are-looking-for-a-post-doc/ O. Coulon -- Olivier Coulon, Aix-Marseille U

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
No, it should be pointed to the DWI data, which can be corrected niftis instead of the original dicoms. I would recommend turning off all the corrections in the configuration file, and then running everything without skipping steps. This will create all the files that are expected to be there

[Freesurfer] Fwd: ERROR: mpr2mni305 failed gauss_4dfp mpr2mni305

2016-05-31 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Dear Freesurfers, I wonder if you could please help me with this issue, it may be similar to this post? https://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg40092.html Ran it just fine a while back, but now it is failing with this error. Thank you very much, Best wishes, Barbara

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Jacobs H (NP)
Dear Anastasia, Thanks for the feedback. So, does this mean that the dcm root should be pointed towards the T1¹s? I have the FreeSurfer recon-all output in a different folder. Enclosed is the log file (of one subject) and the configuration file. You will see that I tried the inter and intra option

[Freesurfer] recon-all with input T1s at different resolutions

2016-05-31 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
hi folks, does recon-all work if the input T1s for the same participant have different resolutions? (i don't have a dataset to test, but trying to debug some issues another group has been having). cheers, satra ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nm

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula skip steps

2016-05-31 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Heidi - The intra-subject registration step that you're trying to run registers your subject's DWI and T1 images. It expects to find those images. It doesn't use the FA, MD, etc in any way. Did the log file get created in scripts/trac-all.log? If so, can you please send that file and your

Re: [Freesurfer] Coordinates in TRACULA group analysis

2016-05-31 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Anri - Can you also send your log file (scripts/trac-all.log)? I'll need to see what exactly was running when the error occurred. Thanks! a.y On Sat, 28 May 2016, Anri WATANABE wrote: Hello Anastasia,sorry for few information and let me tell you command and error log. Command: trac-all

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about selxavg3-sess -no-con-ok

2016-05-31 Thread Leila Reddy
Sorry I meant to ask if the weight for the baseline/fixation is set to -1 (not 0). Thanks,Leila On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 1:44 PM, Leila Reddy wrote: Hi,I was just wondering what exactly the -no-con-ok option does in selxavg3-sess. Is it the same as setting the weights for all condition

[Freesurfer] Question about selxavg3-sess -no-con-ok

2016-05-31 Thread Leila Reddy
Hi,I was just wondering what exactly the -no-con-ok option does in selxavg3-sess. Is it the same as setting the weights for all conditions to 1 and give the baseline/fixation (i.e., 0s in the para files) a weight of 0? Thanks, Leila ___ Freesurfer maili

[Freesurfer] correlation with glm

2016-05-31 Thread Clara Kühn
Dear FreeSurfer experts, I would like to correlate my thickness data with behavioral measures. Can I do that with glmfit? If so, could you explain how to specify the contrast for that? My fsgd file looks like this: GroupDescriptorFile 1 Class 1male plus blue Class 1female plus red Class 2male