Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-10-02 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michele - If there are large parts of the brain mask missing that overlap with one of the tracts, the reconstruction of that tract will keep failing. You should investigate why the aseg failed in that part of the brain. It's hard to guess without seeing the images. If there's a large artif

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-24 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michele - It seems like it's failing in the right uncinate again. From the error, I would guess that part of that tract is getting left out of the brain mask or something of that sort. Can you please check how that area looks in the aparc+aseg and in the diffusion data? a.y On Thu, 18 Se

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-24 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Barbara - It means that, depending on the peculiarities of a specific data set, one tract may be trickier than others and the algorithm may need to retry multiple initializations to get it right. It would be nice if it figured that out by itself and reinitialized without you having to do it

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-16 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Dear all, What does this mean? That tracula is more robust when running it seperately for the tracts I am interested in? Thanks, Barbara On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Michele Cavallari < cavallari.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > errata corrige: it did work! I had to re-run the whole thing includi

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-15 Thread Michele Cavallari
errata corrige: it did work! I had to re-run the whole thing including only that specific tract...and eventually it worked. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michele Cavallari < cavallari.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tried...unfortunately it didn't improve > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Chri

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-12 Thread Michele Cavallari
Tried...unfortunately it didn't improve On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Chris Watson < christopher.wat...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > You can try just re-running "trac-prep -prior" and "trac-paths" for the > L uncinate and no other tracts > > On 09/11/2014 02:58 PM, Michele Cavallari wrote

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-11 Thread Chris Watson
You can try just re-running "trac-prep -prior" and "trac-paths" for the L uncinate and no other tracts On 09/11/2014 02:58 PM, Michele Cavallari wrote: So, I re-ran the case with the set reinit option. It "half" worked!...in the sense that the new results show the left uncinate right, but the

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-11 Thread Michele Cavallari
So, I re-ran the case with the set reinit option. It "half" worked!...in the sense that the new results show the left uncinate right, but the right-side one is still a dot (see screenshot of the brain view from the bottom). Any further suggestion? Thanks. [image: Inline image 2] On Thu, Sep 1

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-11 Thread Michele Cavallari
Thanks! it's running... On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Barbara Kreilkamp wrote: > Hi Michele, > > Don't think there is anything wrong with the attached dmrirc.tutorial file. > You definitely need to add the '-c' flag infront of the path to your > configuration file. > Right now it reads the p

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-11 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Hi Michele, Don't think there is anything wrong with the attached dmrirc.tutorial file. You definitely need to add the '-c' flag infront of the path to your configuration file. Right now it reads the path to your file as a flag, which is of course not what you want. Best, Barbara On 11/09/

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-11 Thread Michele Cavallari
Hi Anastasia, I am probably doing something wrong with the syntax of the dmrirc file. I get this error message trac-all -prior /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula/sages_uncinate_dmrirc.tutorial ERROR: flag /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula/sages_uncinate_d

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-10 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Thanks, Michele. Hard to tell what's causing this, perhaps a bit of distortion orbitofrontally. You may be able to fix this type of thing by reinitializing the tract reconstruction: Add "set reinit = 1" to your configuration file, set the pathlist to include only the left and right uncinate,

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-10 Thread Michele Cavallari
uploaded (and activated). Thanks! On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Anastasia Yendiki < ayend...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote: > > Hi Michele - The anatomical segmentation does look good, but from the > screenshot the DWI data seems to be noisy in the orbitofrontal area, which > may be affecting th

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-10 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michele - The anatomical segmentation does look good, but from the screenshot the DWI data seems to be noisy in the orbitofrontal area, which may be affecting the uncinate. It's hard to tell just from one slice. If you upload all the tracula output directories of this subject (dmri, dmri.

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Ludy - If your gradient table is formatted in 3 rows you need to either: 1. Convert it to 3 columns so you can use it with the 5.3 version of tracula, which requires the gradient table to be formatted in columns OR 2. Download the tracula update that can use gradient tables formatted in r

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread lshih
Hi, I was having similar errors as Michele Cavallari regarding "error reading /path/to/subject/dmri/dwi_frame," but I'm not sure it's related to my bvecs file. I did try reconfiguring my bvecs file into columns instead of row just in case, but that didn't solve the problem. It really just looks

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Michele Cavallari
Thanks Anastasia. I figured out the right path, and I'm now running the 2nd step of tracula pipeline on that case. There was a problem with subdirectories (my fault). And also the missing 'SUBJECTS_DIR' syntax in the setenv command, as both you and Barbara pointed out. Thanks again for your help

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michelle - Try replacing this line: setenv /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula/SD40_1/FSout_P0401_e20130813_s002_Cor7minMDEFT_T1_b with: setenv SUBJECTS_DIR /PHShome/my738/FSout (Or whatever the location of your freesurfer recons is.) a.y On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Mic

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michelle - Based on your recon-all.log, your SUBJECTS_DIR that contains the freesurfer recon of your subject is /PHShome/my738/FSout. But based on you trac-all.log, you're using: SUBJECTS_DIR /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula So tracula cannot find the freesurfer recon

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Michele Cavallari
Hi Barbara and Anastasia, thanks to your suggestions and help I was able to run the pre-processing step of tracula. I was using FreeSurfer 5.3, but didn't download any update. That's probably why the row configuration was not working. Anyway, I used the column configuration after manual correction

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michelle - Your column-formatted gradient table (original_columns.bvec) shows up as having only 2 rows in unix (e.g. with the cat command). That's sometimes the case for text files saved from Excel or other non-unix applications. When I open your file in TextEdit on a mac and then copy-past

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-03 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Hi Michele, Yes, tracula would have complained at the very first call, if the dwi data was not there. So here is the problem, you write: setenv /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula/SD40_1/FSout_P0401_e20130813_s002_Cor7minMDEFT_T1_b in the very first line in your c

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-03 Thread Michele Cavallari
Hi Barbara, I checked the path. The folder with the trac-all output is is the very same folder of the dwi dicoms. Attached is the dmrirc file I am using, with all the specs. Thanks On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Barbara Kreilkamp wrote: > Hi Michele, > > You would have to make sure that the

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-03 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Hi Michele, You would have to make sure that the files are written to the same folder for both commands (recon-all and trac-all) Right now it seems you wrote the output of recon-all to /PHShome/my738/FSout/FSout_P0401_e20130813_s002_Cor7minMDEFT_T1_b/ and trac-all output to /Users/michele

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-01 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Hi Michele, This might be the solution - try the command 'more' in unix on your column bvec and bval, they should each have one (bval) and three (bvec) columns and no strange symbols. But you have these symbols in the bvec-file (probably because you have extra formatting information, that is not n

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-01 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Hi Michele, Do you use the dicoms or the nifti files as input to TRACULA? Also, I think the complete trac-all.log could be even more helpful. I am a newbie myself but I am having a similar problem, so I am trying to find a solution as well :). Best, Barbara On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Mich

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-08-29 Thread Michele Cavallari
Hi Barbara, thanks for your reply. I checked the dwi series on a viewer and it looks fine: I have 1960 dicoms, corresponding to 56 slices x 35 directions specified in the bval/bvec. Also, I was able to obtain the FA and MD maps through fsl using the very same dicoms and bval/bvec. Any suggestion? T

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-08-28 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Dear Michele, I cannot find anything wrong with your bvec and bval files. Seeing as you had an errormessage related to the dwi (the one about the dwi_frame.nii.gz): Did you check that your dwi data have the same amount of volumes as entries in bvec and bval? Good luck, Barbara On 28/08/2014