[Freesurfer] CentOS 7 and freeview

2017-05-02 Thread Ly, Kien-Ninh Ina,M.D.
Hi Freesurfer experts, I installed CentOS 7 on my computer and tried running freeview in the terminal window after ssh’ing into a remote computer. The software opened up correctly and I was able to see the toolbars; however, the main screen where the images should be showed a distorted backgrou

[Freesurfer] Converting tkr CRS to native CRS

2017-05-02 Thread Burke Rosen
How can I get the the position of a tkr voxel in terms of the native voxel space? My guess was: pos = Torig*[C R S ones(size(S))]';% orig CRS to tkrRAS pos = P*pos;% tkrRAS to native RAS pos = W*bmsk;% native RAS to native CRS Where, Torig is given by mri_info --vox2ras-tkr orig.mgz P is qive

Re: [Freesurfer] Setting -openmp flag to more than 8

2017-05-02 Thread Douglas Greve
You should also know that the memory management during openmp mri_em_register execution is not optimal (as found by the HCP group. If you are oversubscribing your processors (ie, have 20 cpus, but run 3 jobs each with 8 cpus), then mri_em_register will slow way down. This appears to be due to s

Re: [Freesurfer] Setting -openmp flag to more than 8

2017-05-02 Thread Chris Gorgolewski
Thank you - this is very useful! On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Chris > > we have found an almost linear speed improvement up to 4, then it starts > to fall off, with not much at all after 8. > > cheers > Bruce > > On Tue, 2 May 2017, Chris Gorgolewski wrote: > > Hi, >

[Freesurfer] Post-doctoral Position in Multimodal Brain Image Analysis of Age-Associated Disease in Boston, MA

2017-05-02 Thread Leritz, Elizabeth C.
The Vascular Risk and Cognition laboratory in the Neuroimaging Research Center at VA Boston and Harvard Medical School is recruiting a full-time postdoctoral fellow with expertise in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and strong data processing skills. The postdoctoral position will focus on the a

Re: [Freesurfer] Long-stream comparing differing resolutions

2017-05-02 Thread Adam Martersteck
Just bumping to the top to see if anyone has ideas about comparing 0.8mm vs. 1mm data using the long stream. Dear FS Experts, I’m trying to compare multiple T1-weighted sequences taken across multiple scanners in the same day in 15 individuals using the longitudinal stream. One question we had

Re: [Freesurfer] Setting -openmp flag to more than 8

2017-05-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Chris we have found an almost linear speed improvement up to 4, then it starts to fall off, with not much at all after 8. cheers Bruce On Tue, 2 May 2017, Chris Gorgolewski wrote: Hi, We are running freesurfer as part of a bigger pipelines with other steps that can be performed in paral

[Freesurfer] Setting -openmp flag to more than 8

2017-05-02 Thread Chris Gorgolewski
Hi, We are running freesurfer as part of a bigger pipelines with other steps that can be performed in parallel to freesurfer reconstruction. So far we have set the openmp flag to the number of all available cores. However, our experience with ANTs and AFNI which also capitalize on the OpenMP paral

Re: [Freesurfer] Freeview GUI Display Issues

2017-05-02 Thread Ruopeng Wang
Would it be possible for you to update to Freesurfer v6.0? On my macOS Sierra + FS 6.0, freeview appears to work well. Best, Ruopeng On 05/02/2017 12:18 PM, Kevin Japardi wrote: Hello Freesurfer! I'm working with someone in our group on some Freesurfer QA, and she's having some issues with u

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread Douglas Greve
It is hard to say. As Anderson said, we have the improved method for computing volume. But just because something is improved does not mean that results will be more significant! On 5/2/17 1:17 PM, John Anderson wrote: Dear Doug, Thank you very much for the clarification!! I highly apprecia

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread John Anderson
Dear Doug, Thank you very much for the clarification!! I highly appreciate your science and help. I received an answer about my question from your colleague Dr Anderson Winkler (Below) who directed me to review the paper (link also bellow). My last question is: can Freesurfer 6 address "better

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread Douglas Greve
By noise, I just mean variability, which could come from those sources, but more likely come from intersubject variability. No good way to check those. It is looking like volume analysis has much higher false positive rates than thickness too. On 5/2/17 12:29 PM, John Anderson wrote: Thank y

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread John Anderson
Thank you Doug, One more question please. Noise: does this mean low quality /high quality T1 images regarding SNR and contrast between white and gray matter. What is the correct approach to check noise effect on the reconstructed T1 images to avoid these controversies between cortical and volumet

[Freesurfer] Freeview GUI Display Issues

2017-05-02 Thread Kevin Japardi
Hello Freesurfer! I'm working with someone in our group on some Freesurfer QA, and she's having some issues with using the freeview gui. She's using a Mac with OS Sierra, with X11 2.7.8. Some of the issues she's having are: 1) The Mac red-yellow-green 'exit/hide/extend' buttons are blackened out

Re: [Freesurfer] Worse determination of ?h.white with v6.0 in comparison to v5.3 - worse GM/WM contrast

2017-05-02 Thread Douglas Greve
oh, that must of been it. I did not keep edits in brainmask On 5/1/17 4:39 PM, Antonin Skoch wrote: Doug, did you process from scratch or did you retain edits to brainmask.mgz and wm.mgz? The -cubic should not be necessary, since recon-all (which I primarily obtained from https://surfer.n

Re: [Freesurfer] perform group analysis on user defined maps

2017-05-02 Thread Douglas Greve
It will probably crash. I does nothing to find NaNs and handle them in an appropraite way On 5/2/17 7:37 AM, Ladan Shahshahani wrote: Hi Douglas, Thanks for the reply. One more question, Qdec excludes subjects with NaN values, right? How will mri_glmfit treat subjects with NaNs? For each sub

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread Douglas Greve
You are speaking statistically, I assume? Ie, you see a sig change in volume and not thickness, or vice versa? If so, it can easily be explained by differences in noise On 5/2/17 5:00 AM, John Anderson wrote: Hi Doug, Thank you for the detailed explanation! Please I have one follow-up questio

Re: [Freesurfer] Worse determination of ?h.white with v6.0 in comparison to v5.3 - worse GM/WM contrast

2017-05-02 Thread Antonin Skoch
Doug, I tried to replicate again v5.3 results of subject 1. I checked wm.mgz, orig.mgz, ?h.orig, ?h.pial, ?h.white and found everything identical (by using mri_diff and mris_diff) except FLAIR.mgz and ?h.pial (after FLAIRpial refinement). The difference was small, I have traced it to the level

Re: [Freesurfer] Skull stripping

2017-05-02 Thread Antonin Skoch
Dear John, you can prepare expert options file with the entry: mri_gcut -T and run recon-all -skullstrip -clean-bm -gcut -subjid -expert expert_opts_file.txt The mri_gcut help page reads: -T set threshold to value (%) of WM intensity, the value should be >0

Re: [Freesurfer] Differences in aseg volumes between FreeSurfer 5.3.0 and FreeSurfer 6.0

2017-05-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Knut I didn't see a 100% below. They look like what we usually see - low contrast small structures (e.g. the pallidum) or ones with poorly definied boundaries (the segments of the callosum, also quite small) show large % changes (which typically correspond to not very many voxels). cheers

Re: [Freesurfer] perform group analysis on user defined maps

2017-05-02 Thread Ladan Shahshahani
Hi Douglas, Thanks for the reply. One more question, Qdec excludes subjects with NaN values, right? How will mri_glmfit treat subjects with NaNs? For each subject, there are some vertices with NaN values (These vertices are not the same in all subjects). Bests, Ladan _

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread John Anderson
Hi Doug, Thank you for the detailed explanation! Please I have one follow-up question and I highly appreciate your input How can we explain results related to reduce cortical thickness and normal gray matter volume. Are these parameters two different thing or they are related to each other.? In o