[Freesurfer] Icosahedron nodes

2006-12-05 Thread Emily Cooper
Dear FreeSurfer gurus, We are trying to conduct a simple group analysis, employing freesurfer. However, our aim is to use the software only up to the point where the functional data is projected to a common space, and from that point on export the data to a text file and conduct the analysis usin

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2006-12-05 Thread Lichen Liang
Dear All, I tried to extract a surface from a MRI scan (T1, 1.5T) using Freesurfer 3.0.3 on a Linux computer. I just run "recon-all" script for the same scan 6 times (same computer, no human interaction). To my supprise, I got 6 different results ( different #triangles, #vertices). Go back to che

Re: [Freesurfer] Icosahedron nodes

2006-12-05 Thread Doug Greve
Hi Emily, don't use .w files as they might generate a different number of data points. The number of nodes is constant, but the .w file will attempt to do a "compression" by eliminating nodes that are 0. This, of course, turns into a bookkeeping mess, which is why I discourage the use of .w f

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2006-12-05 Thread Nick Schmansky
Li-Chen, Some of the utilities make use of random number generation in their algorithms, specifically: mris_smooth, mris_sphere, mris_topo_fixer and mris_ca_label. While the number of vertices can change because of this, the resulting stats (cortical thickness) should not differ by more than 0.5%

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2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Li-Chen, there is some intentional randomness in the algorithms. Try overlaying the surfaces and you'll see that they are visually identical I would think. Nick: is there a switch to recon-all to specify what the seed should be for the random # generators? thanks, Bruce On Tue, 5 Dec 20

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2006-12-05 Thread Nick Schmansky
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:31 -0500, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Li-Chen, > > there is some intentional randomness in the algorithms. Try overlaying the > surfaces and you'll see that they are visually identical I would think. > Nick: is there a switch to recon-all to specify what the seed should be

Re: [Freesurfer] Icosahedron nodes

2006-12-05 Thread Emily Cooper
Hi Doug, I tried commands like this one initially, originally getting a "Segmentation fault" error. It was my understanding from the help file that using the -c flag specified that I want to convert the curv file to .asc. What I would like to do is convert a functional file to .asc. A command lik

Re: [Freesurfer] Icosahedron nodes

2006-12-05 Thread Doug Greve
I've rigged the curv format reader to recognize volume files used to encode surface values, so anything that accepts curv will also accept mgh. The issue on the number of vertices is whether the rh.white is that of the target subject used with mri_vol2surf. Are you using fsaverage? doug E

Re: [Freesurfer] Icosahedron nodes

2006-12-05 Thread Emily Cooper
hi doug, the target subject of mri_vol2surf was ico7 when i got the error in mris_convert. i tried using the command you gave when the target was the individuals sphere.reg, and got a text file with 5 columns. is the last column the intensity values? is there a way to use this command on data map

[Freesurfer] Running flame on mris_preproc output

2006-12-05 Thread Luetcke, Henry
Hi all, I used mris_preproc to generate a surface file from 4 feat directories, as described in the tutorial: mris_preproc --out lh.cope1.nii.gz --target fsaverage --hemi lh \ --iv fbert1.feat/stats/cope1.nii.gz fbert1.feat/reg/freesurfer/anat2exf.register.dat --iv fbert2.feat/stats/cope1.nii.gz

Re: [Freesurfer] Icosahedron nodes

2006-12-05 Thread Doug Greve
hi emily, let's back up a minute. Try running mri_vol2surf using fsaverage as the target (this is basically the same as ico7). Then when running mris_convert, specify the ?h.white in the fsaverage/surf dir. doug On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Emily Cooper wrote: hi doug, the target subject of mri_