[Freesurfer] Brainstem segmentations (6.0)

2016-01-25 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, We used the brainstem segmentation that is built into FS 6.0, to interrogate midbrain volumes. My question was: the way FS segments the midbrain, does it include the cerebral peduncles?  cheers,Cat___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nm

Re: [Freesurfer] freeview read error

2015-08-26 Thread Cat Chong
no, seems to be plenty left.. 240 TB On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 12:23 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: they are empty (zero size). Maybe your disk filled up? On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Cat Chong wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Yes, they exist. > but this seems strange... > -rwx--

Re: [Freesurfer] freeview read error

2015-08-26 Thread Cat Chong
PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Cat do those file exist? What does ls -l tell you for them? Bruce On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Cat Chong wrote: > Dear Experts, >   > I am trying to use Freeview to view volumes using the command listed on the > website: http://freesurfer.net/fswik

[Freesurfer] freeview read error

2015-08-26 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Experts, I am trying to use Freeview to view volumes using the command listed on the website:  http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/FsTutorial/OutputData_freeview but the only volume that loads is the aseg.  I am not able to load the T1, wm, or brainmask mgz’s . either from the terminal or through

[Freesurfer] TRACULA- DKI?

2014-11-25 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Tracula Team, Quick question: Is Tracula able to to process diffusion kurtosis data, and yield, let's say, 'mean kurtosis' parameters for specific fiber tracts?cheers,Cat___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mg

[Freesurfer] tracula min mid max values

2014-10-24 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Anastasia, I am trying to visualize  the tract p-values along one pathway as shown in the tutorial.http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/TraculaStatistics I have implemented the p-values into a text file but I am uncertain of what the settings for the heat scale thresholds ough

Re: [Freesurfer] dwi_motion Tracula

2014-07-22 Thread Cat Chong
for where to find the output. a.y On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Cat Chong wrote: > Hello Anastasia, > >  I ran Tracula on Freesurfer 5.3 but without the 2013 Tracula updates. Now, > I would like to use the command "dwi_motion" on my data. I have installed > the updates, but

[Freesurfer] dwi_motion Tracula

2014-07-21 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Anastasia,  I ran Tracula on Freesurfer 5.3 but without the 2013 Tracula updates. Now, I would like to use the command "dwi_motion" on my data. I have installed the updates, but will I have to completely reprocess my data inducing steps trac-all -prep, trace-all -bedp, and trac-all path i

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula trac-all -stat flag -stat unrecognized

2014-07-18 Thread Cat Chong
Thanks Chris, I will try that right now! > On Jul 18, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Chris Watson > wrote: > > Do you have the latest version of Tracula? There was an update posted after > FS 5.3 came out. > >> On 07/18/2014 04:48 PM, Cat Chong wrote: >> Hello Anastasia

[Freesurfer] Tracula AD weighted average

2014-07-18 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Anastasia, Another quick question: We found significant differences in two subject groups for the AD_AVG as well as the  AD_AVG_Weight, which is stated as the "weighted average over the entire path distribution'. Could you tell me how the average weight is calculated and why it would be be

[Freesurfer] Tracula trac-all -stat flag -stat unrecognized

2014-07-18 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Anastasia, I have just converted pathstas.overall.txt files to a table for group analyses. Now, I am trying to convert pathstats.byvoxel.txt files to a table for group analyses using the command: trac-all -stat -c  I am receiving the error message: ERROR: flag -stat unrecognized I am work

[Freesurfer] Monte-Carlo Cluster Correction

2014-01-27 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Experts,   I was wondering if you could possibly help me with a reviewer-related question:   We conducted a between-group-analysis estimating the interaction between cortical thickness and age.  In summary, we wanted to investigate whether the interaction between cortical thickness and age is

[Freesurfer] nuisance variable in qdec

2013-12-05 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Doug,   Thank you for your instantaneous response!   Correcting for disease burden was actually a reviewer comment.  We calculated mean cortical thickness estimates for regions that showed vertex-wise age-related cortical thickness differences between groups (using qdec) and then graphed out

[Freesurfer] nuisance variable in qdec

2013-12-05 Thread Cat Chong
Dear FreeSurfer Experts,   We are trying to run a between group analysis (1 patient group 1 control group) within qdec. We are interested in investigating age-related thickness differences between groups.  Our fixed factors are ‘group’ and our continuous covariate is ‘age’. We would like to contr

[Freesurfer] tracula bvec flipped sign

2013-10-30 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Experts, I was hoping you could help me with the following problem. Tracula failed when I attempted to use Siemens (Skyra) dicoms as input for the configuration file, so I converted the dicoms to niftii format using dcm2nii.  I used the gradient information of the bvec  file created by dcm2

[Freesurfer] recon-all failed with errors

2013-05-23 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Experts, I am able to to initiate recon-all but it fails at various stages during the recon-all process even though I should have plenty memory available to run the process. This is the error message I am getting and below is the log file. I am using the freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub

Re: [Freesurfer] Siemens dicom error on mri_convert

2013-05-23 Thread Cat Chong
1002.mgz  mri_convert: extra arguments ("1002/IM-0001-0001.dcm" and following) type mri_convert -u for usage I am not quite sure where I am making an error. Cat From: Douglas N Greve To: Cat Chong ; "Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" Sen

[Freesurfer] Siemens dicom error on mri_convert

2013-05-23 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts,   I am trying to run the mri_convert command prior to the recon-all command on Siemens T1 dicoms (as suggested in the archives). I am using freesurfer version: freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub-v5.3.0, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 I am using the command below: mri_convert -it siemens_dico

[Freesurfer] tracula longitudinal

2013-01-30 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, Please forgive another question. I have run 59 people through the recon-all freesurfer longitudinal stream with 2 timepoints (tp1id, tp2id). I want to run these subjects through "tracula" next, since the same people also received repeated Tensor imaging. To process everybody t

[Freesurfer] tracula batch processing

2013-01-30 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, Unfortunately I am currently only able to run  tracula on a personal computer, System Version:    Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)   Kernel Version:    Darwin 10.7.0. I have no problem running a single subject on the dmrirc_single subject configuration file. When I try to run several sub

[Freesurfer] tracula bedpostx failure

2013-01-22 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, I am running bedpost x through fsl on the dmri directory (as advised in a previous post). I receive the fsl error message: “child process exited abnormally”. The command line error states: switching from /8000_tracula/8000_tracula_out/8005_DTI/dmri to /8000_tracula/8000_tracula_o

[Freesurfer] Tracula problems initializing pathway

2013-01-14 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts I am still at the first pre-proc step for Tracula and although the script is running, it seems to have difficulty initializing the first pathway (1 out of 18) Please see below script excerpt: Is that normal that it takes this many trials to initiate a pathway? Cheers, Catherine WA

[Freesurfer] Tracula error? set: Variable name must begin with a letter

2013-01-14 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts: I am running the first pre-processing step in Tracula and come across the error: set: Variable name must begin with a letter. Below is an excerpt of the script which seems to be running fine. Did I make a mistake in my dmrirc_single_subject file? Cheers, Catherine fmris-mac

Re: [Freesurfer] freeview tracula error

2012-08-29 Thread Cat Chong
Thank you for the almost immediate reply. Yes, it seems to be otherwise working, cheers, Cat From: Nick Schmansky To: Cat Chong Cc: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] freeview tra

[Freesurfer] freeview tracula error

2012-08-29 Thread Cat Chong
  Dear Experts: I have worked my way through Tracula and things seem to work fine, but when I try to view my tractography outputs I get the following persistent error using freeview (copied below). I am using a Mac OS X 10.6.7. freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v5.1.0 Could this

[Freesurfer] tracula-snowleopard updates

2012-08-27 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, Just a quick question: Do the Tracula updates(dmri_mergepaths, etc) for snow_leopard replace the  'old' ones  in freesurfer's "bin" directory? cheers, Cat ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.har

[Freesurfer] tracula trac-all error malloc_error_break

2012-08-24 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, I get the following error when running trac-all: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug MRIalloc(218, 182, 182): could not allocate 158704 bytes for 13th slice I am using the update for trac-all that was recommended, but it still isn't working. I would be gratefu

[Freesurfer] pial edit question

2012-07-27 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Experts, I am occasionally noticing some 'pinching' on the inflated brain surfaces around the temporal lobe pole. When I check the brainmask.mgz files, the raised areas are due to a 'bubble' of pial surface forming on top of pial surface. Upon checking white matter and grey matter boundari

[Freesurfer] ROI labels

2012-06-19 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Freesurfers,  I would like to show several ROI labels  that we created on top of  an an average brain which demonstrates the group results of cortical thinning with advancing age.  In qdec, when I go into File>Load Label, I can only view one label at a time. Is there a way to show severa

[Freesurfer] qdec group analysis

2012-06-18 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Freesurfers, I have created an ROI label for 80 subjects in qdec. My question is the following: Is there a command that will create a .stats file for all my subjects rather than using the below command on each person individually? mris_anatomical_stats -l rh.ento.label \ -t rh.thickness -b

[Freesurfer] longitudinal analysis 5.0 or 5.1?

2012-04-18 Thread Cat Chong
  Dear Freesurfers:   We have a large group of subjects (for which we have two time-points) that were run  through the recon-all stream using 5.0.  We have done no manual editing yet.   We would like to do a longitudinal analysis of these subjects using 5.1 by comparing both time-points for each su

[Freesurfer] qdec: vertex thickness values

2012-01-25 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Freesurfers: I am comparing two groups in qdec. I am looking at the scatter plot function for a specific vertex for thickness to age correlation. If I "click" on a dot on the scatter plot, it will provide  me the thickness values for that vertex for a specific person in the scatter plot fu

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec analysis

2012-01-23 Thread Cat Chong
Hi Doug, I spoke too soon. I tried to follow your advice and  run either command: In a terminal, cd to the GLM directory inside qdec directory and then cd to the folder of the contrast of interest and run mri_segstats --id 1 --slabel fsaverage lh yourlabel --i gamma.mgh  --sum yourlabel.sum t

[Freesurfer] qdec and analysis results

2012-01-23 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, I am analyzing cortical thickness of two groups (APOE 4carries vs. noncarriers) in freesurfer with age as a co-variate. I am uncertain about the statistical differences behind: 1)Does the correlation between thickness and age accounting for APOE, differ from 0?     in contrast to

[Freesurfer] qdec and scatterplots

2012-01-22 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, I apologize for the basic question. I am currently examining the cortical thickness differences between two groups, contolling for age. On the scatterplot, I thought there was a way to view slopes and intercepts (between groups)? I can't however, figure out a way to get these tre

[Freesurfer] qdec analysis

2012-01-20 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts: In qdec, I would like to analyze if the thickness- entorhinal volume correlation differs between APOE positive and negative subjects accounting for age. I have chosen age as a nuisance variable and entorhinal volume as a covartiate. ( hope this is correct) Results show me several

Re: [Freesurfer] SPGR compressed files

2012-01-07 Thread Cat Chong
eers, catherine From: Bruce Fischl To: Cat Chong Cc: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] SPGR compressed files Hi Catherine can you explain what you mean by compression? Bruce On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Cat Chong wrote: >

[Freesurfer] SPGR compressed files

2012-01-06 Thread Cat Chong
Hi Experts, We wanted to run clinical scans that underwent some compression at the scanner through freesurfer. I just wanted to seek confirmation that SPGR sequences that have undergone slight compression can not be run through freesurfer, is that correct? thank you, catherine

[Freesurfer] Qdec: problems

2012-01-05 Thread Cat Chong
Hi Experts: Sorry, I forgot to attach the following error message I get when I attempt to generate stats data tables: I would be grateful if you tell me what I am doing wrong, catherine asegstats2table --common-segs --meas volume --tablefile /5000_series/5000_series/qdec/stats_tables/aseg.volu

[Freesurfer] SPGR gadolinium contrast

2012-01-05 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts: Is is possible to run 3D SPGR's with contrast (gadolineum) through freesurfer? Also, in a separate dataset, we have 3D SPGR's that have unfortunately been compressed. Can they still be run? Thanks, catherine___ Freesurfer mailing list F

[Freesurfer] QDEC:/ problems with generating stats Data Tables

2012-01-05 Thread Cat Chong
HI Experts: Using Qdec, I have tried to generate Stats Data Tables, but below is the error message I received. .I get this error message for all subjects but the aseg.stats files are there and seem ok... any ideas of what I am doing wrong? cheers, catherine asegstats2table --common-segs --mea

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer Courses

2012-01-04 Thread Cat Chong
Hi all, Just checking.. is the Freesurfer course in New Zealand this May the only course offered this year, or are there others? would love to go but New Zealand may be a stretch... cheers, catherine ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.h

[Freesurfer] spgr orientation and re-slicing

2011-12-14 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Experts, I am sorry for the basic question but we have a dataset of subjects we  like to analyze for which  we have different slice thicknesses and orientations in dicom format. All T1's  collected were SPGR volumes with the same scanner parameters. My question was: Do you advice to re-ori

[Freesurfer] tracula and corona radiata

2011-12-08 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts, I would like to be able to get measurements of the anterior portion of the corona radiata using tracula. Is this a possibility? I did not see it as an "option" in paths to reconstruct. thank you very much for your help, catherine___ Free

[Freesurfer] entorhinal cortex volume

2011-12-07 Thread Cat Chong
Another basic question:  Could you tell me what is the best way of putting the ?h.entorhinal_exvivo.stats into a spreadsheet for all subjects? Is there a way to achieve a  textfile output for all subjects similar in concept to kvlQuantifyHippocampalSubfieldSegmentations.sh ? catherine_

[Freesurfer] entorhinal cortex volume question

2011-12-07 Thread Cat Chong
Hello experts, I am  very new to freesurfer so please excuse my basic question: We want to get measurements of entorhinal cortex volumes on a group of people. I found these results listed in  ?h.aparc.stats. I also noticed another ?h.entorhinal_exvivo.stats, with different results. Which shou

[Freesurfer] SPGR orientation

2011-10-13 Thread Cat Chong
Hello Experts: I am new to Freesurfer. Does the SPGR data have to be of axial LPI orientation in order to run through recon all? thank you, cat ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listin