[Freesurfer] flag for not stripping the image

2010-12-14 Thread Navid Shiee
Hi, I have an image with very large ventricles, which makes the stripping step of the algorithm to fail. I have the stripped version of the image and was trying to use -noskullstrip flag to just input the stripped image. But I got an error of "could not open mask volume brainmask.mgz". Would you p

[Freesurfer] running in the background?

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Dankner
Hi All, I'm running freesurfer on a public station, so I need to sign out when I'm finished with sessions. Has anyone found a suitable way to run freesurfer in the background? I know that I can run matlab in the background here, so if there is a way to run the pipeline through matlab that may wo

Re: [Freesurfer] running in the background?

2010-12-14 Thread Scott Burns
This tip comes from Sam at the helpdesk... At the command prompt, type 'screen' and press enter. This opens the terminal emulation program, aptly named screen. In this new terminal, start your recon as you would normally, whether that's invoking a script of your making or typing in the standard

Re: [Freesurfer] running in the background?

2010-12-14 Thread Watson, Christopher
You can also just run e.g. "nohup recon-all -autorecon-all -s doe_j &" From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Burns [sbu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 8:05 PM To:

Re: [Freesurfer] running in the background?

2010-12-14 Thread Scott Burns
You can make it work with nohup? In the past I've had trouble and my thinking was that because recon-all starts many child processes, the currently continues after the terminal is closed, but any subsequent process can't start. That's why I've been using screen, but YMMV. Scott Burns Kuperberg

Re: [Freesurfer] running in the background?

2010-12-14 Thread Watson, Christopher
I should have clarified. I use nohup when I ssh into my workstation from elsewhere. I haven't tried it in which I would have to log out from the machine running recon-all. From: Scott Burns [sbu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:54

Re: [Freesurfer] running in the background?

2010-12-14 Thread Nathan Dankner
Thanks, this is very helpful On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Watson, Christopher < christopher.wat...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > I should have clarified. I use nohup when I ssh into my workstation from > elsewhere. I haven't tried it in which I would have to log out from the > machine runni

Re: [Freesurfer] another recon-all error

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas, Adam (NIH/NIMH) [E]
Bruce et al, Did you ever get to the bottom of Joakim's problem? I'm getting the same error. I checked the talairach and it looks fine. But for some reason mri_normalize can't find any peaks so T1.mgz comes out as all zeros. I just uploaded the subject to your anon FTP server.: ex03.2.tgz Than