Re: [Freesurfer] Extremely small numbers of extracted pial surace area

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Karl differences in surface area are a bit harder to interpret. There are also some technical issues that perhaps Doug and/or Anderson Winkler can comment on. Anderson had a recent article on this that you might want to look at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22446492 cheers Bruce On

Re: [Freesurfer] Editing Lesions in FreeSurfer 5.1

2016-03-15 Thread Allison Rainford
Hi Bruce, I?ve attached a screen shot of a temporal pole of one of the brains that we have had issues with. Here the issue is that there is a lesion without a very clear boundary for the white matter and freesurfer was unresponsive to simply using white matter edits (placing 255s on the wm.mgz), a

[Freesurfer] TRACULA and NIFTI images

2016-03-15 Thread Jacek Manko
Dear Anastasia, Thank you very much. This time I attach motion-corrected NIFTI-data (plus bval and bvec tables) that I have been unsuccessfully trying to process with Tracula. I also attach log file with error message. I suspect there must be something wrong with the tables again, but I am clu

Re: [Freesurfer] Extremely small numbers of extracted pial surface area

2016-03-15 Thread Karl Liu
Thank you for your comment, Bruce. Regardless of technical issues, I am still troubled by the small magnitude of extracted value of pial surface area. Following group comparison and correction in QDEC, there is a significant cluster (size: 760 mm^2). In order to make a bar group of group means, I

Re: [Freesurfer] error while running dt-recon all

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
if you run mri_convert 00010001 deleteme.nii what happens? what is the error when running with nifti? On 03/14/2016 05:59 PM, Jasmin Alves wrote: > > Dear Freesurfer experts, > > FREESURFER_HOME: /Applications/freesurfer > > Build stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub-v5.3.0 > > Kernel info:

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_binarize

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Mohamad, I don't know why that would be. Note that the aseg does not have individual cortical labels. You should use aparc+aseg.mgz On 03/12/2016 04:19 PM, Alshikho, Mohamad J. wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > I would like to inquire about the command “ mri_binarize”. In the > past, this command was

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
The problem is that the smoothness of the data (35mm) is beyond that computed for the simulation. 35mm is very smooth. What kind of data is this? How much did you smooth it by? On 03/13/2016 07:10 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Hi experts, > I am trying to correct the results of groups analysis us

Re: [Freesurfer] error - mri_nu_correct.mni

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
It should all be on one line mri_nu_correct.mni --n 1 --proto-iters 1000 --distance 50 --no-rescale --i orig.mgz --o orig_nu.mgz On 03/14/2016 05:43 AM, Flavia Niccolini new wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > I have done this and I got the following message: > > “cd /data/PDE10_PD_DENOVO/Freesurfer/DE

Re: [Freesurfer] Problems with file un qdec analysis

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
you cannot have more than two levels of a factor in qdec. You can use the "command line" stream. See the wiki On 03/14/2016 06:52 AM, Lisa Delalande wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've got some problems with qdec. I have .levels with more than 2 > factors. For example a "grpe.levels" with three fa

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Champe Barton
Hey Bruce, I recently sent you a log file to look at to determine why reprocessing data wasn’t making any changes in freeview. Have you had a chance to go over it yet? Let me know. Thanks, Champe > On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:41 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > > I got it, thanks > Bruce > On Mon, 7 Mar

[Freesurfer] adapt Monte Carlo correction for specific sample

2016-03-15 Thread Clara Kühn
Dear FreeSurfer experts, I have a question regarding the Monte Carlo correction. To create a Monte Carlo correction for my specific sample (4year old kids) the wiki suggests this command: mri_mcsim --o $FREESURFER_HOME/average/mult-comp-cor/yoursubject/lh/cortex --base mc-z --surface yoursubject

Re: [Freesurfer] adapt Monte Carlo correction for specific sample

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
You can just store it in a different directory, then use the --cache-dir option when running mri_glmfit-sim to specify the new folder, eg, if you use --o /path/to/myspace/yoursubject/lh/cortex, then specify /path/to/myspace On 03/15/2016 12:36 PM, Clara Kühn wrote: > Dear FreeSurfer experts, >

Re: [Freesurfer] FSFAST mkcontrast-sess with spmhrf 2 question

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
The setwdelay is an option for mkcontrast-sess (not mkanalysis-sess) On 03/13/2016 10:29 PM, Joseph Dien wrote: > After a long break, back to this… > > My goal is still to get the betas for the first and maybe second spm > hrf so I can calculate a Calhoun derivative boost measure. > > As a first

Re: [Freesurfer] Volumes of individual subject based on 001.mgz or nu.mgz?

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
They are transformed from the native space (001.mgz) to the "conformed" space which is 1mm3, 256x256x256. This is a rigid transformation so it will not distort the volumes. On 03/14/2016 11:37 AM, Kaiming Yin wrote: > Dear guys, > > Could I ask in the process of each individual data, are the vol

[Freesurfer] Upgrading to OS X EL Capitan

2016-03-15 Thread Elissa Ash
Dear Freesurfer experts, I have been working with freesurfer V5.3 on the Mac OS 10.8.5. My institution is requesting that I upgrade the OS on my computer to OS X El Capitan (10.11). Will this change my ability to look at or process freesurfer data? Will the recons that I have done be compatible? I

Re: [Freesurfer] Difficulty correcting Pial surfaces

2016-03-15 Thread pablo najt
Dear experts and FS users,I came across the following problem it would be useful help if anyone is able to advice.ThanksPablo I am having issues when trying to remove non cortical tissue (mostly skull). I load my images as follow: freeview -v mri/T1.mgz mri/brainmask.mgz -f surf/lh.white:e

Re: [Freesurfer] aparc stats volume outputting area instead

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
Can you send the terminal output? Also, what version are you using? On 03/14/2016 09:56 AM, Clare Loane wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to pull out the volumes from the aparc stats file but when > I input the following (below) it produces a file identical to the area > instead: > > aparcstats2table

Re: [Freesurfer] voxel vs surface based morphometric analysis

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
There are a lot of things you mention (vbm, pet, surface-based, and dti). You'll have to explain in more detail what you did. On 03/14/2016 01:10 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Hi Doug, > I ran voxel based analysis in FSL to check the differnce in PET signal > between two groups. The results are tot

Re: [Freesurfer] adapt Monte Carlo correction for specific sample

2016-03-15 Thread Clara Kühn
Thanks a lot! I will do that then :) Cheers, Clara - Ursprüngliche Mail - Von: "Douglas N Greve" An: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. März 2016 17:40:08 Betreff: Re: [Freesurfer] adapt Monte Carlo correction for specific sample You can just store it in a different

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
p.s. sorry, it should be tmp/control.dat On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Champe Barton wrote: Hey Bruce, I recently sent you a log file to look at to determine why reprocessing data wasn’t making any changes in freeview. Have you had a chance to go over it yet? Let me know. Thanks, Champe On Mar 7,

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Champe it looks like it is not using the control points. How did you create them? They should be stored in a file under in tmp/edit.dat within the subject directory. Does that file exist? cheers Bruce On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Champe Barton wrote: Hey Bruce, I recently sent you a log fil

Re: [Freesurfer] Upgrading to OS X EL Capitan

2016-03-15 Thread Z K
v5.3 is compatible with El Capitan. In general, we dissuade people from performing group studies or performing comparisons on subjects processed under different version operating system. In reality the difference would be quite small (if it exists at all), but it is still highly discouraged. -

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Champe Barton
I created them as instructed in the tutorial and called the file “control.dat” so there’s a control.dat file in my subjects directory. Should I have named it tmp/control.dat? Also, would resolving the control points issue also resolve the deleted voxels issue? Cause my it’s not redrawing the pia

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Champe it must be in the tmp subdirectory (that is name>/tmp/control.dat) otherwise we will not find it. As for the deleted voxel issue - how did you delete them? Bruce On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Champe Barton wrote: I created them as instructed in the tutorial and called the file “control.da

Re: [Freesurfer] Upgrading to OS X EL Capitan

2016-03-15 Thread Elissa Ash
What if all of the data have already been processed (recon -all) and I am now just looking at the data and doing statistical analyses (QDEC, ROI generation, etc)? Thanks On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Z K wrote: > v5.3 is compatible with El Capitan. In general, we dissuade people from > perf

Re: [Freesurfer] Upgrading to OS X EL Capitan

2016-03-15 Thread Elissa Ash
Thanks!! On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Z K wrote: > That would be fine. The idea is to simply process (recon) all your > subjetcs under the same OS version. Once that is complete, viewing the > data, and post processing statistical analysis is perfectly fine on an > upgraded/updated system.

[Freesurfer] Cortical thickness analysis -- Qdec

2016-03-15 Thread Alshikho, Mohamad J.
Hi Doug, I have two groups of subjects and I want to study the difference in cortical thickness between the groups. I used Qdec to run the analysis and I got significant difference between the groups in areas support what I am looking for. I repeated the analysis as mentioned in Wiki https://su

Re: [Freesurfer] Upgrading to OS X EL Capitan

2016-03-15 Thread Z K
That would be fine. The idea is to simply process (recon) all your subjetcs under the same OS version. Once that is complete, viewing the data, and post processing statistical analysis is perfectly fine on an upgraded/updated system. -Zeke On 03/15/2016 01:47 PM, Elissa Ash wrote: > What if a

Re: [Freesurfer] group analysis all measures same results

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
this only has to do with the qcache part of recon-all, so you could use version 5.3 recon-all -qcache and it should be fine. However, it is not a good idea to try to publish using the analysis from the version of FS that you used. That was a beta version of version 6 and things will change. O

Re: [Freesurfer] error while running dt-recon all

2016-03-15 Thread Jasmin Alves
Still get the same error: WARNING: file /Users/jasminalves/Desktop/data/40/00010001 does not contain a Siemens ASCII header has this file been anonymized? ERROR: cannot unpack mosiacs without ASCII header The error I get when running in nifti format is actually found in the log file. ERROR:

Re: [Freesurfer] group analysis all measures same results

2016-03-15 Thread Kaiming Yin
Dear Douglas, Does it also affect the individual data analysis or the volumetric group analysis, e.g. the files in the stats/ folder? So could I use the results of these surface group analyses after running the "-qcache" on V5.3 then? Thanks, Kaiming On 15 March 2016 at 18:00, Douglas N Greve

Re: [Freesurfer] error while running dt-recon all

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
How was DTI.nii.gz created? What happens if you run mri_info DTI.nii.gz If the DICOM is a siemens dicom but has been stripped of special siemens info, then we cannot unpack it On 03/15/2016 02:02 PM, Jasmin Alves wrote: > > Still get the same error: > > WARNING: file /Users/jasminalves/Desktop

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Champe Barton
I used the recon editing tool—I explicitly followed the instructions from the tutorial (even on reprocessing the tutorial data it didn't work), so I had the brainmask.mgz highlighted, checked the recon editing box and held shift and clicked to remove the necessary voxels (they turned black). I r

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
why are you deleting voxels from the brainmask.mgz? That is only used for masking out non-brain tissue. Is that what you are trying to do? On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Champe Barton wrote: I used the recon editing tool—I explicitly followed the instructions from the tutorial (even on reprocessing the

Re: [Freesurfer] error while running dt-recon all

2016-03-15 Thread Jasmin Alves
How was DTI.nii.gz created? DTI.nii.gz was converted from the raw dicom data using dcm2nii. Response for: "What happens if you run mri_info DTI.nii.gz" Volume information for DTI.nii.gz type: nii dimensions: 128 x 128 x 70 x 65 voxel sizes: 2., 2., 2. t

Re: [Freesurfer] error while running dt-recon all

2016-03-15 Thread Douglas N Greve
Can you send the full terminal output from when you run dt_recon with the nifti as input? On 03/15/2016 03:07 PM, Jasmin Alves wrote: > How was DTI.nii.gz created? DTI.nii.gz was converted from the raw > dicom data using dcm2nii. > > Response for: "What happens if you run mri_info DTI.nii.gz" >

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Champe Barton
Yes, the pial (and white, actually) surface is extending into an area where there is no brain tissue. I'm not sure the anatomical name for it, but it's two cavities, one in the lower half of either hemisphere, where there's no tissue at all. When I process the dicom files I get really erratic su

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon Reprocessing Issues

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
as long as you move the file into the tmp dir recon-all should find it and use it (search for control.dat in the recon-all.log after you have run it). I'm not sure what's going on with your brainmask.mgz though. You are saying that there are voxels that are deleted (set to 1) in your brainmas

Re: [Freesurfer] Editing Lesions in FreeSurfer 5.1

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Maybe you can draw the wm in? I wouldn't put control points there > On Mar 15, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Allison Rainford > wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > I?ve attached a screen shot of a temporal pole of one of the brains that we > have had issues with. Here the issue is that there is a lesion without a >

Re: [Freesurfer] FSFAST mkcontrast-sess with spmhrf 2 question

2016-03-15 Thread Joseph Dien
oh duh! Sorry, wasn’t thinking clearly. Okay, I see how to generate the betas now. I don’t even need to mess with the mkcontrast-sess command. I just run selxavg3-sess with the -no-con-ok flag. With spmhrf 0 I generated a beta.nii.gz file with 85 betas in each vertex. With spmhrf 1 I generated a

Re: [Freesurfer] error while running dt-recon all

2016-03-15 Thread Jasmin Alves
Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:40 jasminalves$ dt_recon --i DTI.nii.gz --s 40 --o /Users/jasminalves/Desktop/data/FREESURFER/40 INFO: SUBJECTS_DIR is /Users/jasminalves/Desktop/data/FREESURFER/ dt_recon logfile Tue Mar 15 20:37:35 PDT 2016 VERSION $Id: dt_recon,v 1.15 2011/01/25 21:53:04 greve Exp $ sete

[Freesurfer] cannot allocate memory

2016-03-15 Thread Ehsan Tadayon
Dear Freesurfer experts, I'm trying to run mri_vol2vol on a functional mri to resample it onto orig.mgz. I get this error: ``` mri_vol2vol(98217,0xa0ce01d4) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=262144) failed (error code=3) *** error: can't allocate region *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to de

Re: [Freesurfer] cannot allocate memory

2016-03-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Ehsan We need the full command line and screen output and also what your hardware and software environments are to help you. Certainly sounds like you ran out of memory though Cheers Bruce > On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:41 PM, Ehsan Tadayon wrote: > > Ehsan