Re: [Freesurfer] WM & GM Parcellation Edit

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
h will hopefully will show what we are trying to do. Thanks, Shyam On 5/31/16, 4:20 PM, "Bruce Fischl" wrote: Hi Shyam it's hard to give you an answer unless I understand what the source of your inaccuracy is. Perhaps you can point an image that is zoomed in on a region with arrows

Re: [Freesurfer] Extracting White Matter Structures without using Tracula

2016-05-31 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Maryam why don't you want to use tracula? That is what it is designed for cheers Bruce On Tue, 31 May 2016, Syeda Wajiha Maryam wrote: > Hello Freesurfer experts, > > I am looking to extract certain white matter pathways (for instance, the > superior longitudinal fasciculus, uncinate fascic

Re: [Freesurfer] correct thinking?

2016-06-01 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Marja yes, if you want to compare measures averaged over our predefined ROIs that is all you need to do. Note that for volumes you probably want to include ICT/eTIV as a regressor cheers Bruce On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Marja Caverlé wrote: Hi guys, I just wanted to make sure I am underst

Re: [Freesurfer] correct thinking?

2016-06-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
only want to look at cortical >> thickness for now. >> >> Best, >> >> Marja >> >>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Bruce Fischl >>> wrote: >>> Hi Marja >>> >>> yes, if you want to compare measures averaged over

Re: [Freesurfer] correct thinking?

2016-06-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Sorry, ICV (intracranial volume) On Jun 2, 2016, at 4:40 AM, John Epiktitos wrote: Hello, What is ICT ? Thanx On Jun 1, 2016 4:21 PM, "Marja Caverlé" wrote: Hi Bruce, Thanks for

Re: [Freesurfer] : cortical thickness ceiling (using an ROI mask)

2016-06-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Kari the average thickness in some ROIs is 5mm??? Like which ones? That certainly seems like something is wrong. Do the surfaces look accurate? What were the parameters/resolution/sequence of the data you gave to recon-all? cheers Bruce On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Kari Parsons wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with FreeSurfer template and control subject

2016-06-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Mahtab we do all the analysis in native space and don't transform the data to a template (although we do compute mappings to various templates). As for your other question, there are too many variables to control for (age, gender, scanner type, sequence) for us to distribute a normative d

Re: [Freesurfer] build fsaverage

2016-06-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Lawrence you can you the make_average_subject script, but as Doug implies you probably don't need to. Our warp is high-enough dimensional that you rarely need to build average subjects from your own population cheers Bruce On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, shi yao wang wrote: > > Hello ! > > I work

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all segmentation error

2016-06-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
hmmm, that suggests that the aseg failed badly. What does it look like? cheers Bruce On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Jaiashre Sridhar wrote: Bruce, The lh.inflated.nofix shows the brainstem and cerebellum are attached to the cortical surface. Also, the ventricles are not filled in the filled.mgz. Could

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all segmentation error

2016-06-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
does it segment the cerebellum ok? If so, it should be removed during recon-all On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Jaiashre Sridhar wrote: Bruce, The aseg looks fine to me. Is there anything in specific that I should be looking for in aseg? Thanks, Jaiashre.  __

Re: [Freesurfer] CORRECTING DEFECT

2016-06-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hmmm, that sounds like a bug. If you upload the subject we will take a look Cheers Bruce > On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:54 PM, maryam koochaki wrote: > > Dear freesurfer experts, > I have a subject ending up with this error after recon-all. > I tried to edit the aseg and run it, but it stuck at topologi

Re: [Freesurfer] volumetric difference between 1.5 T and 3.0 T...

2016-06-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Gonzalo we seek to minimize these explicitly, but given the difference in T1s at different field strength it's pretty hard to get rid of them completely. Xiao Han wrote a paper on this, and I think Jorge Jovicich did as well cheers Bruce On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, Gonzalo Rojas Costa wrote:

Re: [Freesurfer] Break 3D volume

2016-06-08 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi John I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but you can use mri_extract to pull out rectangular subvolumes. cheers Bruce On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, John Anderson wrote: Dear FS Experts, Are there any tools in Freesurfer or Matlab scripts that can help to break down a 3D volume ( created using mri_v

Re: [Freesurfer] Break 3D volume

2016-06-08 Thread Bruce Fischl
t; and the command is mri_extract x0 y0 z0 dx dy dz  how can I use the command properly? : is this where my file is located? x0 y0 z0 dx dy dz: What I should use here?   Thank you very much for your help     John    Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 at 9:13 AM From: "Bruce Fischl" To: &quo

Re: [Freesurfer] aseg.stats and aparc.stats reliability

2016-06-08 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Jonathan as far as we know, FreeSurfer is the most reliable and robust longitudinal brain morphometry tool that is publicly available. We are working to improve it (always!), but the answer to your question is yes, certainly 5.3 and the upcoming 6.0 are both excellent longitudinal tools Bruc

Re: [Freesurfer] FS volume estimates

2016-06-08 Thread Bruce Fischl
1. This is based on Randy Buckner's paper showing that the tal xform gives you a pretty accurate estimate of the TIV (which is hard to compute directly from a T1 image since you can't distinguish bone from CSF). 2. I think including it as a covariate is a better approach, but perhaps others

Re: [Freesurfer] Cerebellar volumes?

2016-06-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Marja we do whole cerebellum white matter and gray matter, but things like lobules aren't released yet. cheers Bruce On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Marja Caverlé wrote: Hi all, I am hoping to find some cerebellar volumes, but I don't know how to get them. I already did recon -all on all my subject

Re: [Freesurfer] Cerebellar volumes?

2016-06-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
es, I assume I also need to use the eTIV as regressor right? (just like for the cerebral volumes? And maybe a stupid question, but can I use the eTIV as regressor by just dividing the structure volume by the eTIV? Best, Marja On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Marja

Re: [Freesurfer] Cerebellar volumes?

2016-06-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
11:14 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Marja yes, you can just use those volumes, and no, including it as a regressor isn't the same as dividing by eTIV (although you can do that instead). cheers Bruce On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Marja Caverlé wrote:

Re: [Freesurfer] Cerebellar volumes?

2016-06-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
. This seemed to me the way to do that, but of course I am not an expert. Best, Marja On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: if you expect cerebellar volume to vary in an uninteresting way with head size (which I think you probably do) On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Marja

Re: [Freesurfer] swapped dimensions?

2016-06-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Marja how did you swap them? And more importantly, how did you check that the orientations were correct after conversion? cheers Bruce On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Marja Caverlé wrote: Hi guys,  Just a quick question; I have converted my original DICOMs into niftis. After the conversion I manu

Re: [Freesurfer] swapped dimensions?

2016-06-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
, and then visually compared them (since the heads are not very symmetrical that was not too hard). Best, Marja On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Marja how did you swap them? And more importantly, how did you check that the orientations were correct after

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical Thickness Processing Error

2016-06-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Navena hmmm, sounds like that subject didn't finish processing for some reason. You could try rerunning just that step with: recon-all -s N1 -sd /Users/navenalingum/Applications/freesurfer/subjects -cortparc -cortparc2 -cortparc3 and see if that completes (it should only take a couple o

Re: [Freesurfer] swapped dimensions?

2016-06-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
there they seemed to match. So my question is; is there a possibility that dimensions are swapped during the recon -all? If not, then I am sure R=R and L=L. Thanks! On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Marja what did you visualize it in? I would suggest freeview

Re: [Freesurfer] swapped dimensions?

2016-06-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
ing during the recon-all. If not, than I can safely assume that the results are correct. Best, Marja On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:29 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: so you convert from dicom to nifti, then view in freeview and you think that the anatomical orientations are incorrect? That

Re: [Freesurfer] swapped dimensions?

2016-06-14 Thread Bruce Fischl
les called eg 1254890234, so I have no clue how to get the right files. Thanks! On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Marja why are you converting at all? Why not just give one of the dicom files in the correct series to recon-all directl

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit

2016-06-14 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Kojima tkmedit has been deprecated. Can you try using freeview instead? cheers Bruce On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, kojima_masaki_m...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Hi.  I have this error, when I was doing tkmedit PSY1001fs/Users/MRI/Desktop/fsurfer_test_kojima/Surf_data_main/PSY1001fs/mri/brainma sk.mgz -a

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit

2016-06-14 Thread Bruce Fischl
tkmedit? Regards, Kojima - Original Message - From: Bruce Fischl To: kojima_masaki_m...@yahoo.co.jp; Freesurfer support list Date: 2016/6/14, Tue 21:50 Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit Hi Kojima tkmedit has been deprecated. Can you try using

Re: [Freesurfer] SIENAX

2016-06-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hmmm, I'm not sure I understand your question. SIENAX is indeed from the FSL group and different than what we do. What are you trying to accomplish? On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Hassan bakhshi wrote: Hi, I lately heard about SIENAX and when I looked into it it seems like Freesurfer,  using the same

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: concerting surface format

2016-06-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Trisanna, perhaps check with the BrainVisa people? We don't know the specs of that format. Maybe you could read it into matlab, then write it out in our format with write_surf.m? cheers Bruce On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Trisanna Sprung-Much wrote: > > > Hi there > > is there a way to convert .

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Trisanna you don't need to inflate the overlays. They can just use the existing surface-based (sphere.reg) registration. cheers Bruce On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Trisanna Sprung-Much wrote: Hi there So I have sulcal labels from another software (.mnc format) from which I am trying to generate

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
itself? best Trisanna -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Trisanna you don't need to inflate the overlays. They can just use the existing surface-based (sphere.reg) registr

Re: [Freesurfer] SIENAX

2016-06-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
maybe you want to check with the FSL group? It really depends on what measures you want to obtain On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Hassan bakhshi wrote: > We have some cases which we want to process , I searched about SIENAX and as > you are more expert in this area, I wanted to know > Freesurfer preferen

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: Getting the pial surface to cover the entire medial temporal lobe structures

2016-06-15 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi David we don't have anything that does this by default, sorry. If you don't care about the location of the white surface you could try setting all the voxels in the wm.mgz that are left or right hippo/amygdala in the aseg to 255 then running from autorecon2-wm forward. cheers Bruce On W

Re: [Freesurfer] Error loading a constructed annotation file

2016-06-16 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Nora you need to send us the complete command line you ran and also the error message and the complete terminal outpu cheers Bruce On Thu, 16 Jun 2016, Bittner, Nora wrote: Dear freesurfer experts,   I constructed an annotation file using mris_label2annot. I did this several times and

Re: [Freesurfer] Apply mris_apply_reg for a label

2016-06-16 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Alexandre try mri_label2label using the ?h.sphere.left_right cheers Bruce On Thu, 16 Jun 2016, Alexandre Routier wrote: Hello everyone, I have a label for the left hemisphere for my subject but I don't understand the syntax to apply mris_apply_reg on this label to obtain the right hemispher

Re: [Freesurfer] modifying files on older versions of FS

2016-06-16 Thread Bruce Fischl
wow, 4.4, that's pretty old. Not sure, I guess try it Bruce On Thu, 16 Jun 2016, Alexopoulos, Dimitrios wrote: I have successfully processed data with FS v5.3 (linux/CentOS) using recon-all -all.   Is it possible to make modifications to the 5.3-generated brainmask.mgz (primarily dura remov

Re: [Freesurfer] change the algorithm

2016-06-19 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Nazanin no, sorry, that isn't possible. Our accuracy is improved by the fact that we model all subcortical structures simultaneously. As for your second question you need to be more specific. Are you finding some inaccuracies that you want to correct? cheers Bruce On Sun, 19 Jun 2016,

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-19 Thread Bruce Fischl
 > Saving target data >     > Saving to test.mgz >     > >     > best >     > >     > Trisanna >     > >     > -- >     > Ph.D. Candidate >     > McGill University >     >

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-19 Thread Bruce Fischl
anks and have a lovely Sunday! Trisanna -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Trisanna Doug is on vacation and his response time is likely to be pretty slow. If any emails go

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer Digest, Vol 148, Issue 28

2016-06-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
hm (N Saf)    4. Re: change the algorithm (Bruce Fischl)    5. Re: registering to fsaverage (Trisanna Sprung-Much)    6. Re: registering to fsaverage (Bruce Fischl) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 1

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
/fsaverage/DISPLAY_overlays_fsaverage_l eft/aalf_lh/test.mgz, -1): could not open file mri_average: MRIread(test.mgz) failed -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: no problem. Bruce On Sun, 1

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
hology On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: no problem. Bruce On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, Trisanna Sprung-Much wrote: thanks Dr. Fischl - I think sometimes my emails don't get sent out on the first try and so I resend

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_defacing: a faulty stripping of cortex

2016-06-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
YOu could try increasing the density of the search (which will slow it down considerably). Maybe -s 7? It's hard to diagnose without looking at your data, so feel free to upload it if this fails and also send us the exact command line you ran On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, HONG Sujin wrote: Hello,

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
on, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: yes, your last file on the command line should be the output file (the average) cheers Bruce On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Trisanna Sprung-Much wrote: As a follow-up, here is the mri_info for one of my overlays in the folder

Re: [Freesurfer] Error loading a constructed annotation file

2016-06-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf    40225 Düsseldorf Tel.: 0211-8106109    Email: n.bitt...@fz-juelich.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Bruce Fischl Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2016

Re: [Freesurfer] FS V6.0 GTM PVC ROI definition

2016-06-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Pradeep Doug is on vacation and is the best one to answer your question. If you don't get a response in a week or 10 days can you repost? thanks Bruce On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Pradeep wrote: Hello Freesrufer Team,  I am trying to use the Partial volume correction procedure implemented in t

Re: [Freesurfer] smoothing T1 images

2016-06-21 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi John you can try mri_nlfilter if you like. It implement a nonlocal means/medians algorithm that I wrote in 1995 or so: Bruce Fischl and Eric L. Schwartz. 1999. Adaptive Nonlocal Filtering: A Fast Alternative to Anisotropic Diffusion for Image Enhancement. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach

Re: [Freesurfer] cortical surface pattern matching

2016-06-21 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Greg you could threshold then look at Hausdorff distance of the blobs. Or you could smooth before computing correlation as that will take spatial stuff into account. Or if you have a patch that you want to cross-correlate against the rest of the surface you could do it on the sphere, althou

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-22 Thread Bruce Fischl
when creating the overlay using mri_vol2surf? thanks Trisanna -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Trisanna the binaries that take mandatory command-line arguments (i.e

Re: [Freesurfer] patch error

2016-06-23 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Stephen how did you create the patch? It looks like it is corrupted since that vertex # is way too big. The total # of vertices in the patch is also wrong. cheers Bruce On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, S.V.Shepherd [work] wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to make a patch and have run into the 'bad vert

[Freesurfer] RA position available

2016-06-23 Thread Bruce Fischl
The UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is looking for a researcher with strong interests in neuroimaging interested in a Specialist position at UCSF. We are a neurodevelopment and neuroimaging lab. Specialists (research assistant) appointed at the junior rank must possess a bac

Re: [Freesurfer] patch error

2016-06-23 Thread Bruce Fischl
hen v. shepherd   phd The Rockefeller University / 1230 York Avenue / New York NY 10065-6307 USA // 212.327.7699 On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Stephen how did you create the patch? It looks like it is corrupted since that vertex # is way too big. The total

Re: [Freesurfer] patch error

2016-06-23 Thread Bruce Fischl
k around it. Thanks for thinking about the problem and sorry to report it was simply user error! stephen stephen v. shepherd   phd The Rockefeller University / 1230 York Avenue / New York NY 10065-6307 USA // 212.327.7699 On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: hmmm, are you sure

Re: [Freesurfer] visualizing statistical maps in FreeView

2016-06-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
you can load the overlay on the surface either by highlighting the surface and doing it from the interface or on the command line via: freeview -f surface:overlay=file_name cheers Bruce On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, Lars M. Rimol wrote: Hi, Is it possible to overlay .mgh files with statistics (e

Re: [Freesurfer] License for data file?

2016-06-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Matthew we typically ask people to get licenses from us so we can keep track of them. cheers Bruce On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > Over at our nibabel Python package, we've got stuck trying to work out > what license we should give to a file we got from Freesurfer version

Re: [Freesurfer] License for data file?

2016-06-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
yes, it's fine Bruce On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Bruce Fischl > wrote: >> Hi Matthew >> >> we typically ask people to get licenses from us so we can keep track of >> them. > > So, what we wan

Re: [Freesurfer] Stuck on “CORRECTING DEFECT”

2016-06-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Dan that defect is too big, there must be something wrong. Check to see if the surface is connected to dura or across the hemis or something. You can look at the lh.inflated.nofix and/or the lh.orig.nofix to see where the defects are. Then you'll need to correct something once you've figure

Re: [Freesurfer] mean cortical thickness not equal to averaged ROIs cortical thickness

2016-06-25 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Nabin unless the areas are the same size, the mean of the areal means won't equal the overall mean. cheers Bruce On Sat, 25 Jun 2016, Nabin Koirala wrote: Hi freesurfer team,  I extracted the cortical thickness values using aparcstats2table command and I got the cortical thickness values

Re: [Freesurfer] mean cortical thickness not equal to averaged ROIs cortical thickness

2016-06-25 Thread Bruce Fischl
known' region, so you don't have to do it yourself. Regards,  Nabin On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Nabin unless the areas are the same size, the mean of the areal means won't equal the overall mean. cheers Bruce On Sat

Re: [Freesurfer] visualizing statistical maps in FreeView

2016-06-27 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Lars I'll leave this for Ruopeng. cheers Bruce On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Lars Morten Rimol wrote: Hi Bruce,   Yes, now it works (my guess is I loaded a single subject surface as template before…) but I don’t find an FDR correction button in the Configure Overlay interface. The fdr threshold

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-27 Thread Bruce Fischl
importing probability maps formed as .mnc and creating overlays from them? The percentages seem to be very odd for min and max threshold. Trisanna -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: H

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about FreeSurfer

2016-06-27 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Dorsa what specific models do you need? The 10-20 hours is to process the data from a single subject at a single timepoint. If you check out our wiki (http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki) there are lots of tutorials and sample datasets and such cheers Bruce On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Dorsa

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer/Freeview help

2016-06-27 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Abbie what are you trying to create a mesh of? We supply meshes for the gray/white interface and for the pial surface. We supply voxel segmentations of lots of other things that you could mesh, but we don't by default. cheers Bruce On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Abbie McNulty wrote: > Hello, > I am

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer/Freeview help

2016-06-27 Thread Bruce Fischl
of what Freesurfer > can do and not quite a play-by-play interaction of Freeview, I am stuck. > > Thanks > > Abbie > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Bruce Fischl > wrote: > Hi Abbie > > what are you trying to create a mesh of? We supply meshes f

Re: [Freesurfer] updated mri_convert file

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Olivia and others we are having major disk problems at Martinos and many of the links may not work for a few days sorry Bruce On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Olivia Cheung wrote: Hi Freesurfer team, I would like to download a copy of the updated mri_convert but the link on the Release Notes webpage

Re: [Freesurfer] QSM Hippocampal Segementation

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Jessica if we have T1/PD maps we typically run them through mri_synthesize to create a strongly T1-weighted image that is then passed to recon-all. Can you tell us more about what data you have? cheers Bruce On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Jessica Sevick wrote: Hello,  I was wondering if it wa

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about FreeSurfer

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
d I put them in a folder in my > subjects_dir. but I get errors when using recon-all on the folder containing > the > MRIs. Can you help me with that? I really appreciate your help > > Thank you > > Dorsa > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Bruce Fischl > wrote

Re: [Freesurfer] checking freesurfer output

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Gabor, it depends on what you are doing. What you describe is sufficient for maps/structure volumes, but for example if you wanted to measure thickness within parcels you would have to check the accuracy of the cortical parcellation cheers Bruce On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Gabor Perlaki wrote:

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about FreeSurfer

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
following error:files are not found to be different and cannot be sorted Do you have any suggestions? Thank you Dorsa On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: just give recon-all a single slice from the series with -i .  It will figure out the rest of them

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about FreeSurfer

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
e. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Dorsa you need to give us more information that that if you want us to help you. Send us the full command line you ran and the full screen output and log files for starters. cheers Bruce  On Tue

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about FreeSurfer

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
n-all -i LT7616_3TS_Copy_0001.dcm -subjid test6 -all On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Dorsa can you just copy and paste the text into the email? It's much easier than trying to look at images of text. Your recon-all command finished su

Re: [Freesurfer] Failed to download Freesurfer from ftp, server seems empty

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Minos we are having major hardware issues that we hope to have resolved tonight. Try again tomorrow cheers Bruce On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, C. Minos Niu wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to have my new students download and install Freesurfer from > https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/DownloadAnd

Re: [Freesurfer] checking freesurfer output

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Gabor the only way is to look at the parcellation over the white surface I guess. There are some not-very-well documented interventions, but maybe your best bet would be just to exclude subjects (since it almost never fails) cheers Bruce On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Gabor Perlaki wrote: > Dear

Re: [Freesurfer] Order of overlays

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Reza can you use freeview? We don't do any development on tksurfer and hardly use it anymore. Not sure if this is possible in freeview, I'll leave that for Ruopeng cheers Bruce On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Reza Rajimehr wrote: Hi, In Tksurfer, we want to show functional activity map and borders o

Re: [Freesurfer] tutorial_data

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
it should all be working now, no? On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Bennet Fauber wrote: > Looks like all downloads are broken, as the same message appears when > trying to download the binary distribution, > > ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0/freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pu

Re: [Freesurfer] tutorial_data

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
try again - hopefully the stale mounts of been fixed now cheers Bruce On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Bennet Fauber wrote: > Looks like all downloads are broken, as the same message appears when > trying to download the binary distribution, > > ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0/fre

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
Trisanna -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Trisanna we need more information if you want us to help you. What does "very odd mean"? If you do it in .mgz do you get a

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
about 10-40% (i.e. the max overlap). For some reason when I create an overlay from this it displays the % from 1-255. Trisanna -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Trisanna what

Re: [Freesurfer] No intensity command

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Sabrina what are you trying to accomplish? This is unlikely to work well (if at all), as we depend on the normalization cheers Bruce On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Sabrina Yu wrote: Hello,  I have a question about taking out the intensity normalization commands in recon-all. I want to eliminate

Re: [Freesurfer] Get a given point's ROI

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Lin you could look that point up in the subject's aparc+aseg.mgz. This will give you an index into the file $FREESURFER_HOME/FreeSurferColorLUT.txt cheers Bruce On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Yuan Lin wrote: > Dear FreeSurfer experts, > > I am a beginner to learn to use FreeSurfer. Now I have a quest

Re: [Freesurfer] Get a given point's ROI

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
command to read .mgz file in MATLAB? Or can I convert the .mgz file to .vtk file? Thank you so much. Best, Lin 在 2016年6月29日,下午5:56,Bruce Fischl 写道: Hi Lin you could look that point up in the subject's aparc+aseg.mgz. This will give you an index into the file $FREESURFER

Re: [Freesurfer] REPOST: Longitudinal Stream: Recon-all and template

2016-06-30 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Tamara 1. Run each timepoint through the cross-sectional stream separately. 2. recon-all will figure out what files to use when you tell it to create the base. cheers Bruce On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Tamara Tavares wrote: Hello All, I am planning to run the longitudinal stream on my data se

Re: [Freesurfer] REPOST: Skull Strip and Bad Surfaces

2016-06-30 Thread Bruce Fischl
eek, that's pretty awful. If you upload the subject dir we will take a look cheers Bruce On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Katherine Reiter wrote: Dear FreeSurfer experts, I am working on a data set and am having particular difficulty with one subject. It appeared the skull strip was mistakenly removing occ

Re: [Freesurfer] registering to fsaverage

2016-06-30 Thread Bruce Fischl
urfer/MNI_average_2009a_asymm/spam_for_label_id_4_bl ur_overlay.mgz Dim: 152257 1 1 -- Ph.D. CandidateMcGill University Integrated Program in Neuroscience Psychology On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Can you send the full output of that command? On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Tri

Re: [Freesurfer] Freeview recon button

2016-06-30 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Walid Recon editing mode is in the upcoming v6. Our recent hardware woes slowed things down a bit, but we are still hoping to get It out soon What was the gyrification question? Cheers Bruce > On Jun 30, 2016, at 10:39 PM, Walid Yassin wrote: > > Hello freesurfers, > > I downloaded freesur

Re: [Freesurfer] Intensity normalization issues leading to improper segmentation

2016-07-01 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Élodie if you upload your subject we will take a look cheers Bruce On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Elodie Cauvet wrote: Dear Freesurfer list, Sorry to bother by posting again, but I am bit stuck by this issue and would be really glad to get some help on that issue. Of course I can upload some data i

Re: [Freesurfer] right hemisphere specific problem with converting labels from fsaverage to subject space

2016-07-01 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Hinke we need more details if you want us to help you. Images, exact command lines and outputs, etc cheers Bruce On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Halbertsma, HN (ohk) wrote: I’m having issues with the conversion of labels drawn in fsaverage to subject’s space (using mri_label2label).  I’ve manuall

Re: [Freesurfer] cotrolling for total gray matter volume

2016-07-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Clara I would use the stats from the long as they are most stable, and yes I believe you should control for total volume when looking at surface area. cheers Bruce On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Clara Kühn wrote: Dear FreeSurfer experts, I would like to look at longitudinal thickness data and

Re: [Freesurfer] tksufer got the opposite direction of image

2016-07-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
how do you know it is the right hemi and not the left? Also, we don't use or support tksurfer anymore. Try freeview instead cheers Bruce On Sun, 3 Jul 2016, 李琬 wrote: Dear all,   I've been trying to use "tksufer" to check the surface images according to the instruction of "Inspectio

Re: [Freesurfer] question about aseg.mgz

2016-07-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Jasmin the norm.mgz isn't a voxel labeling - it's an intensity volume. We typically check the aseg.mgz display *over* the norm.mgz to see if the labels make sense w.r.t. the intensities. cheers Bruce On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Jasmin Alves wrote: Dear Freesurfer support, I noticed in previous

Re: [Freesurfer] question about aseg.mgz

2016-07-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Jasmin the norm.mgz isn't a voxel labeling - it's an intensity volume. We typically check the aseg.mgz display *over* the norm.mgz to see if the labels make sense w.r.t. the intensities. cheers Bruce On Sat, 2 Jul 20

Re: [Freesurfer] Tissue probability maps from aseg.mgz

2016-07-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Lee that is the correct option, I just haven't gotten around to putting it in the help text yet. Bruce On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, Lee Subin Kristine wrote: > > Dear FreeSurfers, > > > Is it possible to get tissue probability maps (for the purpose of using them > in spm DARTEL, PVElab, etc) out

Re: [Freesurfer] controlling for total gray matter volume

2016-07-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
sounds right to me Bruce On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, Clara Kühn wrote: I have decided now to not control for ICV or total gray matter volume when looking at cotrical thickness but to control for total gray matter volume when looking at surface area. Does that sound about right? Cheers, Clara - U

Re: [Freesurfer] controlling for total gray matter volume

2016-07-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
ne.0148852 that controls for tGM only for area and not CT. Cheers Clara - Ursprüngliche Mail ----- Von: "Bruce Fischl" An: "Freesurfer support list" Gesendet: Montag, 4. Juli 2016 15:37:57 Betreff: Re: [Freesurfer] controlling for total gray matter volume sounds right to me B

Re: [Freesurfer] controlling for total gray matter volume (Clara K?hn)

2016-07-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
yes, just note that they are somewhat different hypothoses that you are testing as noted by Mike in the past. If you use average surface area/thickness you are testing the hypothesis that part of the brain is not changing/different relative to the average. If you control for TIV (or the 2/3 roo

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer/Freeview help

2016-07-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
at if you could answer in explanation form: How do people develop finite element models from brain MRI? How do people learn and implement the software on an example data set? Abbie  On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Abbie you just use the recon-all script from t

Re: [Freesurfer] segmentation issues in Temporal Lobes

2016-07-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Barbara yes, this is intentional and shouldn't be a problem. The hippocampus has lots of internal structure that we don't model with the surfaces (but we do with the subfield stuff), but we exclude it from our analyses so you should be fine cheers Bruce On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Barbara Kreilkam

Re: [Freesurfer] Inquiries about the curvature

2016-07-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Mahtab you should look them up in a differential geometry textbook. Essentially, a 2D surface has two curvatures at each point, one in the direction of maximum folding (k1) and one in the direction of minimum folding (k2). The Gaussian curvature is then k1*k2 and the mean is (k1+k2)/2 che

Re: [Freesurfer] question about white matter edits

2016-07-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Rito the control points you have look like they are in voxels that contain some gray matter, which will probably make things worse. YOu need to identify why you are missing that part of the surface. Is the dark stuff there labeled as white? Maybe it's a topological defect that gets filled i

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