[Freesurfer] RAM per CPU for running Freesurfer 7.1

2021-07-12 Thread Ajay Kurani
External Email - Use Caution Hi Freesurfer Experts, I am designing some new hardware for a mini-cluster running Freesurfer and other neuroimaging toolboxes and wanted to better understand requirements from Freesurfer. 1) Is there a minimum amount of ram per core that is needed/

Re: [Freesurfer] Multiple Comparison Question for surface-based analyses

2016-10-16 Thread Ajay Kurani
Do you correct for multiple contrasts and if not, is there any particular reason why not. Thanks, Ajay On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Doug, >Thank you very much for your update regarding this issue. > > 1)Just curious, will LGI be included in this report

Re: [Freesurfer] Display FSL PALM(permutation) stats in freeview

2016-09-19 Thread Ajay Kurani
ocation,I can upload the stats file if that is easier. Thanks, Ajay On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Anderson, >Thanks for the help. When viewing my results they looked very > strange. Upon further investigation it looks as though the mask I supplied

Re: [Freesurfer] Display FSL PALM(permutation) stats in freeview

2016-09-17 Thread Ajay Kurani
cortical thickness, would the mask need to be a volume file which is between the pial and white matter surfaces or would it just need to be the pial surface (lh.pial / rh.pial), or something else? Any suggestions on the best way to create this? Thanks, Ajay On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ajay Kurani

[Freesurfer] Display FSL PALM(permutation) stats in freeview

2016-09-15 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer Experts, I was running permutation simulations on cortical thickness data and I had an issue with non-orthogonal covariates with mri_glmfit-sim -perm. I then tried FSL's PALM which is an extension of randomize to calculate threshold free stats. I saved the output as logp(which

Re: [Freesurfer] Covariates for cortical Thickness and LGI

2016-09-08 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Doug, Thanks for the follow up. Do you recommend using a covariate such as mean thickness or is a covariate not necessary for cortical thickness analysis? Thanks, Ajay On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Freesurfer Experts, >I am comparing a control group

[Freesurfer] Covariates for cortical Thickness and LGI

2016-09-08 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Freesurfer Experts, I am comparing a control group and 2 patient groups (HC vs Group1, HC vs Group2, Group1 vs Group2). I am interested in seeing what is the most appropriate covariate to use for both a cortical thickness analysis and LGI analysis. I do not expect major changes in brain sha

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim permutation testing running after 3 days!

2016-08-25 Thread Ajay Kurani
et the 5% FPR. One question is if the non-orthogonal data affects this analysis as well for this model? Thanks, Ajay On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Freesurfer Experts, >I am trying to use freesurfer's mri_glmfit-sim tool to run permutation > testing on c

[Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim permutation testing running after 3 days!

2016-08-25 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Freesurfer Experts, I am trying to use freesurfer's mri_glmfit-sim tool to run permutation testing on cortical thickness data (as recommended by Doug in my previous post: http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg48653.html ) Most of the tutorials I found were not relat

Re: [Freesurfer] Multiple Comparison Question for surface-based analyses

2016-08-03 Thread Ajay Kurani
long tails are not taken into account? Thanks, Ajay On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hello Freesurfer Experts, >Recently there were two article published regarding clusterwise > simulations for volumetric fmri analyses and potential errors for > underestimat

[Freesurfer] Multiple Comparison Question for surface-based analyses

2016-08-01 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer Experts, Recently there were two article published regarding clusterwise simulations for volumetric fmri analyses and potential errors for underestimating clusterwise extent thresholds. 1) http://www.pnas.org/content/113/28/7900.full.pdf?with-ds=yes 2) biorxiv.org/content/early

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-10 Thread Ajay Kurani
to if A > B or B>A? I guess with the blue and red color bars I thought directionality was implied. Or would one need to do a subsequent one tailed test (Pos A>B; Neg B>A)d in order to determine directionality of thickness results? Thanks, Ajay On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Ajay Ku

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-09 Thread Ajay Kurani
hanks, Ajay On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Doug, >Thanks for the explanation. In using p=0.05 with my thickness files > (smoothed 15mm translates to FWHM=21mm), I looked at fwhm21/abs/th13/ cdf > file. > > In regards to Qdec , if I choose abs, do

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-08 Thread Ajay Kurani
n Friday, May 6, 2016, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Doug, >I wanted to figure out what is the minimum cluster extent for a given > monte carlo simulation (ie when you choose p=0.5/T=1.3). I saw the > following tutorial : > https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BuildYourOwnMonteC

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-06 Thread Ajay Kurani
asure (ie measuring the smoothness of the input thicknesss image)? Is there a way to see what cluster minimum is used? Thanks, Ajay On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Doug, >Thanks for the clarification. So in the case of cortical thickness, > qcache

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-05 Thread Ajay Kurani
rh.pial? Best, Ajay On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Doug, >Thanks for the quick reply. > > Is there a difference from qcache/mris_fwhm with mris_smooth and > mri_surf2surf -fwhm ? If so, which is recommended for cortical thickness > analysis?

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-05 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Doug, Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a difference from qcache/mris_fwhm with mris_smooth and mri_surf2surf -fwhm ? If so, which is recommended for cortical thickness analysis? Thanks, Ajay On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Freesurfer Experts, >J

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-04 Thread Ajay Kurani
(based on the earlier email) so I am not sure if there is a freesurfer tool to check the smoothness level or if the qcache smoothness levels make sense for cortical thickness. Thanks, Ajay On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Freesurfer Experts, >I am trying t

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -qcache vs mris_fwhm

2016-05-04 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Freesurfer Experts, I am trying to understand the difference between qcache option and mris_fwhm and which is appropriate for a cortical thickness analysis. I processed my files with qcache and have lh.thickness.fsaverage.fwhm15.gii (converted) files. I used an afni tool SurfFWHM to estima

Re: [Freesurfer] Qdec stats question

2016-04-22 Thread Ajay Kurani
? Thanks, Ajay On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Freesurfer Experts, > > I have used freesurfer smoothed images (lh.thickness.fsaverage.fwhm15.gii) > to perform a cortical thickness analysis. I used qdec with a surface-based > morphometric analysis to compare tw

[Freesurfer] Qdec stats question

2016-04-21 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Freesurfer Experts, I have used freesurfer smoothed images (lh.thickness.fsaverage.fwhm15.gii) to perform a cortical thickness analysis. I used qdec with a surface-based morphometric analysis to compare two groups. As my discrete fixed factor I used group membership. As Nuisance factors I used

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 Hippocampal Subfield Analysis

2016-04-16 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer Experts, I am having a bit of trouble with the hippocampal subfield analysis using the Freesurfer 6.0 program. My data is organized as /AnalysisFolder/Group/Subject/Anatomical/SUB_FS .. where SUBJECTS_DIR=/AnalysisFolder/Group/Subject/Anatomical/ and my subject specific folder

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_fix_topology with ROI surface

2016-04-06 Thread Ajay Kurani
Thanks for clarifying Bruce. Just curious is there any freesurfer commands to convert this internal surface file into a .mgh file for external use? For example mri_surf2vol or mri_surf2label etc? Thanks, Ajay On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hello Freesurfer Expe

Re: [Freesurfer] bbregister --init-spm with Freesurfer 6.0

2016-04-06 Thread Ajay Kurani
Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hello Freesurfer Experts, >As a follow up question for bbregister, I used the --tmp and --epi-mask > options, but I did not see a mask in the directory. I wanted to see if > there is any way to output the B0/edge excluded epi-

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_fix_topology with ROI surface

2016-04-06 Thread Ajay Kurani
ile a label, annotation surface etc? Thanks, Ajay On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Freesurfer experts, >I wanted to create a Freesurfer surface on some of the aseg ROIs. I > was able to run mri_tesselate, mris_smooth, mris_inflate and mris_sphere > some o

Re: [Freesurfer] bbregister --init-spm with Freesurfer 6.0

2016-04-06 Thread Ajay Kurani
, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Freesurfer Experts, >I was running bbregister and came across an issue. I have used > previous versions of bbregister (FS 5.3.0 with spm8) with the --init-spm at > it worked perfectly for a specific subject. > > I recently installed FS dev 6.0 w

[Freesurfer] bbregister --init-spm with Freesurfer 6.0

2016-04-05 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Freesurfer Experts, I was running bbregister and came across an issue. I have used previous versions of bbregister (FS 5.3.0 with spm8) with the --init-spm at it worked perfectly for a specific subject. I recently installed FS dev 6.0 with SPM12b and ran bbregister --init-spm option with th

Re: [Freesurfer] Left right flip surfaces

2016-03-29 Thread Ajay Kurani
to flip these thickness files to the opposite hemisphere (files already warped to symmetric space) Thanks, Ajay On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote: > Hi Doug, >I attached a .png file to show an example. The Yellow outline is the > right and left caudate surface. Th

Re: [Freesurfer] Left right flip surfaces

2016-03-28 Thread Ajay Kurani
, causing the same pixel shift issue??? Based on what I can find is it best to run the following: surfreg --s sub001 --t fsaverage_sym --lh --xhemi Would this flip my lh.thickness.fwhm10.fsaverage_sym.mgh file to the other hemisphere? Thanks, Ajay On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Ajay Kurani wrote

[Freesurfer] Left right flip surfaces

2016-03-28 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer Experts, I processed all of my brains through freesurfer 6.0 dev for Linux and warped the surfaces to standardized space. For a handful of subjects I want to perform a left right flip of the cortical thickness files (standardized space) for a group analysis. What is the best

[Freesurfer] mris_fix_topology with ROI surface

2016-03-21 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Freesurfer experts, I wanted to create a Freesurfer surface on some of the aseg ROIs. I was able to run mri_tesselate, mris_smooth, mris_inflate and mris_sphere some of the subcortical volumes for creating a surface. The mri_sphere had a big chunk that was deleted and so I wanted to run mri

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 -hires mri_segment potential issue

2015-12-29 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer experts, I am using the nightly build of Freesurfer 6.0 (Dec 18, 2015) on Ubuntu 14.04 with a high resolution image (0.5mm isotropic). I set OMP_NUM_THREADS=16 and then passed the -openmp 16 and -itkthreads 16 flags in my autorecon 2 line command. Autorecon1 and the beginning

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 - Autorecon2 failure (mris_euler_number) using high res (0.5mm isotropic) T1 image

2015-12-03 Thread Ajay Kurani
; for this dataset, they will not be geometrically acccurate in the vicinity > of the huge (>200,000 vertices!) defects. > > cheers > Bruce > > > On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Ajay Kurani wrote: > > Hi Bruce, >> >> The template is the ICBM 2009b nonlinear

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 - Autorecon2 failure (mris_euler_number) using high res (0.5mm isotropic) T1 image

2015-12-01 Thread Ajay Kurani
id running it's normal genetic > algorithm as it would take days (or weeks) to finish, since it scales with > the square of the number of vertices. I haven't figured out what is going > wrong yet, but hopefully will have a code fix soon. > > cheers > Bruce > > > > On

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 - Autorecon2 failure (mris_euler_number) using high res (0.5mm isotropic) T1 image

2015-12-01 Thread Ajay Kurani
gt; >> cp ?h.orig.nofix ?h.orig >> >> cp ?h.inflated.nofix ?h.inflated >> >> >> >> with ? being l or r depending your hemisphere. After the fixing stage the >> surfaces got damaged somehow, therefore you have to recreate it them. I’m >> not

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 - Autorecon2 failure (mris_euler_number) using high res (0.5mm isotropic) T1 image

2015-11-30 Thread Ajay Kurani
> > Hi Ajay > > are you sure you didn't run out of disk space? That error is a sanity > check on the surfaces that should never occur > > cheers > Bruce > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015, Ajay > Kurani wrote: > > > Hello Freesurfer experts, > >I am trying to

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 - Autorecon2 failure (mris_euler_number) using high res (0.5mm isotropic) T1 image

2015-11-30 Thread Ajay Kurani
:48 > An: Freesurfer support list > Betreff: Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 - Autorecon2 failure > (mris_euler_number) using high res (0.5mm isotropic) T1 image > > Hi Ajay > > are you sure you didn't run out of disk space? That error is a sanity > check on the surfaces that shou

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer 6.0 - Autorecon2 failure (mris_euler_number) using high res (0.5mm isotropic) T1 image

2015-11-29 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer experts, I am trying to run Freesurfer 6.0 beta (downloaded 10/15/15 version) with the -hires flag to process an MNI template image which is 0.5mm isotropic. Stage 1 ran well and on stage 2 there is an error during pocessing: Command run: recon-all -s ICBM -autorecon2 -openmp

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all with lower resolution T2 / Proton Density reconstructions and higher res T1

2015-11-06 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi Bruce, 1) I was also concerned 3mm may be too thick but I will try a few subjects to see how it goes. 2) Hi Eugenio I wanted to see if you can give a bit of insight into the hippocampal issue. 3) Bruce, sorry for the confusion. I was referring to sqrt(T1w*B1 x T2w*B1) ~ B1 bias field estimat

[Freesurfer] Recon-all with lower resolution T2 / Proton Density reconstructions and higher res T1

2015-11-05 Thread Ajay Kurani
think that using these scans would be ok since the bias field is supposed to be smooth, however I wanted to see your thoughts regarding using the T2 scans of this resolution for the B1 bias-field estimation. Any guidance to any of these questions would be much appreciated! Sincerely, Ajay Kurani

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer v 6.0???

2015-10-08 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer experts, I wanted to see if the nightly dev builds of freesurfer are v6.0 with the new hippocampal subfields or if that download is in another section? If so can you send me the proper download location? Also is CUDA support still at 5.0 with this version or is there any update

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer with whole brain T1 and partial coverage FLAIR

2015-02-18 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hello Freesurfer experts, I have a question regarding the use of the -T2 and -FLAIR flags in freesurfer. I have 2 scans: 1 whole brain MPRAGE and 1 partial brain FLAIR (bottom of cerebellum/brainstem gets cut off on some subjects). I wanted to see if freesurfer would still be able to run corre

[Freesurfer] bbregister / mri_vol2vol with nifti file header

2014-10-17 Thread Ajay Kurani
Dear Freesurfer users, I wanted to see if anyone knows what part of the file NIFIT header mri_vol2vol or mri_convert uses to write transform information from register.dat acquired from bbregister? I used the following commands to register the anatiomcal brain.mgz to the last time point of my EPI

[Freesurfer] Combining multiple transforms into one register.dat file for oblique angle acquisitions

2014-10-16 Thread Ajay Kurani
Dear Freesurfer users, I had a question regarding how to combine multiple register.dat files into one file. Essentially, I have a T1 image which I created masks for in native space. I then import the T1 image into freesurfer and run through the recon-all pipeline. Subsequently, I use bbregist

[Freesurfer] bbregister and AFNI

2014-01-30 Thread Ajay Kurani
Hi all, I used freesurfer to process my anatomical scans, followed by BBregister to align my resting state scan to the anatomical and finally afni to process the resting state fmri scans. After recon-all I used bbregister: *bbregister -s ${sub}_FS --mov ${sub}.RS.nii --reg $sub_RS_register.dat