Re: [Freesurfer] Meninges labelled as cortex

2015-01-07 Thread Harms, Michael
Make sure that you are looking at the surfaces though. It looks like the image you attached was the aseg.mgz, and you should not be using the "cortex" as defined in the aseg.mgz because that is based on the volume-stream segmentation. Either overlay the surfaces, or take a look at the aparc+aseg

Re: [Freesurfer] updating from 5.0 to 5.3

2015-02-11 Thread Harms, Michael
FreeSurfer will preserve your previous edits (e.g., brainmask.mgz edit, or wm.mgz edits, among others) when you run a newer version on top of an older version.  However, that is no guarantee that there won't be any issues following the re-processing with the newer version, so it is best to a

Re: [Freesurfer] crossing medial surfaces

2015-04-24 Thread Harms, Michael
Is this perhaps the same issue that I reported in this thread?: http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg38258.html If so, it is due to a "bug" of sort in the recon-all in v5.3 It appears that some of our followup conversation occurred off list, so for others benefit, I'm

Re: [Freesurfer] crossing medial surfaces

2015-04-24 Thread Harms, Michael
e, or just white/pial crossing? cheers Bruce On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Harms, Michael wrote: > > Is this perhaps the same issue that I reported in this thread?: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg38258.html > > If so, it is due to a "bug" o

Re: [Freesurfer] Release of FS version 6.0

2015-06-02 Thread Harms, Michael
Your analogy just has to be interpreted in the context of the winter of 1936-1937 or more recently 2011-2012, not 2014-2015! http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/climate/bossnw.shtml -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of M

[Freesurfer] couple TRACULA questions

2015-07-06 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Anastasia, We are looking at running TRACULA on some data, where we were attracted by the longitudinal component of TRACULA.  Is a paper on the longitudinal aspect of TRACULA in the works? If we have multiple dMRI runs/series per imaging session, do we need to merge/concatenate thos

Re: [Freesurfer] couple TRACULA questions

2015-07-07 Thread Harms, Michael
y School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 South Euclid Ave. Tel: 314-747-6173 St. Louis, MO 63110Email: mha...@wustl.edu On 7/6/15 12:00 PM, "Anastasia Yendiki" wrote: Forgot to reply re: merging. You have to merge them yourselves, sor

Re: [Freesurfer] Supratentorial Volume Versus Sum of Parts

2015-07-14 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Chris, I would generate some scatterplots of some of the various "summary" type measures available in aseg.stats.  That will quickly show you if you indeed have some pronounced outliers that don't fall near the regression line. e.g., compute a 4 x 4 panel scatterplot of CortexVol, SubCo

Re: [Freesurfer] Total intracranial volumes

2015-07-30 Thread Harms, Michael
As an add-on to this, since the ICV (eTIV) is based solely on the "talairach transform", you should really QC the accuracy of the talairach transform itself if you intend to use ICV as a covariate. In particular, the talairach transform can be off, and thus your estimated ICV would be wrong, but

Re: [Freesurfer] Total intracranial volumes

2015-07-30 Thread Harms, Michael
y aseg.stats file Thanks! AS From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of Harms, Michael [mha...@wustl.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:23 AM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Frees

Re: [Freesurfer] Total intracranial volumes

2015-07-30 Thread Harms, Michael
ampus size , controlling for brain size, means you are interested in testing if the hippocampus is relative small for someone with that brain size. While the brain size is affected by both head size and disease. Cheers, Martin On 07/30/2015 11:58 AM, Harms, Michael wrote: > Sure, that would

Re: [Freesurfer] surface reconstruction and quality control

2015-08-05 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Emma, Martin, I'd like to offer a different perspective.  Based on what you showed, I thought that the motion related ringing wasn't too bad, and I'd expect that FS would handle that data quite well, which is what you indicated was indeed the case.  If we all started excluding data of th

Re: [Freesurfer] Head Motion -- was: surface reconstruction and quality control

2015-08-05 Thread Harms, Michael
. Cheers, Martin On 08/05/2015 05:44 PM, Harms, Michael wrote: Hi Emma, Martin, I'd like to offer a different perspective.  Based on what you showed, I thought that the motion related ringing wasn't too bad, and I'd expect that FS would handle that data quite well, which is

Re: [Freesurfer] how to fix errors in 3d mesh

2015-08-26 Thread Harms, Michael
Sounds like you had a clinical scan and got a copy of a sagittal scan series and an axial scan series.  Those would be "2D" acquisitions in which the slice thickness is probably considerably thicker than the in-plane resolution.  That kind of data isn't ideal for FS.  Rather, data for FS is

Re: [Freesurfer] ventricular CSF volumes

2015-09-10 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, I would sum up the set of labels you have in (2) if you want the best estimate of ventricular volume. See the following page for additional info on the various measures: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MorphometryStats In particular, I would expect your measure in (2) would

Re: [Freesurfer] running dt_recon on a philips Achieva DTI dataset;

2015-09-10 Thread Harms, Michael
That depends on a number of complicated, potentially inter-related factors such as: 1) What exactly is Philips putting into that field in its DICOMs 2) Is mri_convert returning a NIFTI with the same orientation as Philips is using for its gradient directions. 3) Importantly, if the acquisitio

Re: [Freesurfer] total grey matter volume

2015-09-28 Thread Harms, Michael
I'm a fan of using global mean thickness as a covariate for thickness analyses, and total surface area as a covariate for surface area analyses.  That way you directly covary for possible global effects using the same type of measure that you are analyzing. cheers, -MH --  Michael Harm

Re: [Freesurfer] total grey matter volume

2015-09-29 Thread Harms, Michael
surfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Harms, Michael Sent: 29 September 2015 04:30 To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] total grey matter volume     I'm a fan of using global mean thickness as a covariate for thickness analyses, and total surface area as

Re: [Freesurfer] Quality control with different pipelines

2016-06-22 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, You can simply rerun 'recon-all -all’ on top of your already processed/edited subject, and it will respect your previous edits.  Of course, it is a good idea to still review/QC the results afterwards, to make sure that the outcome of those edits is satisfactory under the new FS v

Re: [Freesurfer] Quality control with different pipelines

2016-06-22 Thread Harms, Michael
ain Kx On 22 June 2016 at 14:48, Harms, Michael <mha...@wustl.edu> wrote: Hi, You can simply rerun 'recon-all -all’ on top of your already processed/edited subject, and it will respect your previous edits.  Of course, it is a good idea to still review/QC the results

[Freesurfer] longitudinal tracula

2016-06-29 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, When running TRACULA with longitudinal data, is it necessary for all scan waves of a given subject to be included in a single dmrirc file?  My initial thought was “no”, that it would be fine to run one scan wave per subject per dmrirc file (as long as the “baselist” variable is set

Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal tracula

2016-07-01 Thread Harms, Michael
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Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal tracula

2016-07-04 Thread Harms, Michael
se that, unless there's a systematic bias, you might expect that these changes will be in different directions for different subjects and would then average out. But it's a tricky issue. Best, a.y On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Harms, Michael wrote: > > Hi Anastasia, > Looking throu

Re: [Freesurfer] controlling for total gray matter volume

2016-07-04 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, Why not use total surface area to control for analyses involving area, and mean cortical thickness to control for thickness? I’ve posted to the list before regarding this, so you should be able to find those posts. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. ---

Re: [Freesurfer] segmentation issues in Temporal Lobes

2016-07-06 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, There is nothing to solve — that is the expected behavior around the hippocampus/amygdala. See this FAQ: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/UserContributions/FAQ#Q.Thesurfac esnearthemedialwall.2Chippocampus.2Candamygdalaaren.27taccuratelyfollowingt hestructuresthere.HowcanIfixthis.3F

Re: [Freesurfer] question about white matter edits

2016-07-06 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, The missing sulcus may be a consequence of the topology correction going awry.  Check the “nofix” surface to see the surface before topology correction.  If the topology correction is the problem, you’ll need to edit the wm.mgz.  There is an example on the FS tutorials. ch

[Freesurfer] TRACULA dmri_paths, single time point in longitudinal stream

2016-07-20 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Anastasia, I was wondering what the resolution to this thread was: http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg42734.html It sounds like a new version of dmri_paths was deemed necessary to appropriately process single time points in the longitudinal T

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA dmri_paths, single time point in longitudinal stream

2016-07-26 Thread Harms, Michael
From: <freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu> Reply-To: freesurfer <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 11:59 AM To: freesurfer <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Cc: Dillan Ne

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA dmri_paths, single time point in longitudinal stream

2016-07-27 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Michael - Which build of freesurfer do you use? I can send you the new version of dmri_paths so you can try it out. Best, a.y On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Harms, Michael wrote: > > Hi Anastasia, > > I was wondering what the resolution to this thread was: > >http://www

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA: 20% default threshold

2016-07-27 Thread Harms, Michael
Thanks for clarifying. Is the same true for the --pthr option of dmri_pathstats as well? i.e., --pthr is specifying the portion of the 99th percentile, not the strict maximum? thx, -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscie

Re: [Freesurfer] FSFAST ROI atlas

2016-08-17 Thread Harms, Michael
FYI: I supplied a version of the “Gordon” parcellation in .annot format to Bruce a while back.  He had expressed an interest in possibly including it as part of FS 6.0. cheers, -MH --  Michael Harms, Ph.D. ---

Re: [Freesurfer] FSFAST ROI atlas

2016-08-18 Thread Harms, Michael
<freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Date: Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 8:55 AM To: "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu> Cc: Freesurfer support list <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] FSFAST ROI atlas Hi Michael- Thanks very much for the file. Is there

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA: narrow probability distributions

2016-08-23 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Anastasia, My interpretation of the “reinit” parameter is that it is for situations where a narrow probability distribution is assumed to be incorrect. But how do you know whether it is indeed incorrect, or whether in fact the true equilibrium distribution is (correctly) very narrow? In parti

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA: narrow probability distributions

2016-08-23 Thread Harms, Michael
bout the initial path if it doesn't move at all. Best, a.y On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Harms, Michael wrote: > > Hi Anastasia, > My interpretation of the “reinit” parameter is that it is for situations > where a narrow probability distribution is assumed to be incorrect. But > how do

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim permutation testing running after 3 days!

2016-08-25 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, You might want to check out FSL’s PALM tool, which has a bit more sophisticated permutation framework, and allows for permutation in the context of non-orthogonal covariates. cheers, -MH --  Michael Harms, Ph.D. ---

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim permutation testing running after 3 days!

2016-08-29 Thread Harms, Michael
te carlo simulations. > > > Thanks, Maaike > > > *Van:* freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > namens Harms, Michael > > *Verzonden:* vrijdag 26 augustus 2016 01:00:13 > *Aan:* Freesurfer support

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim permutation testing running after 3 days!

2016-08-29 Thread Harms, Michael
on-orthogonal designs are wrong. There >are ways to try to compensate for it, which is what PALM is doing. Sorry >to be nit-picky! > > >On 08/29/2016 06:12 PM, Harms, Michael wrote: >> Hi Maaike, >> Why not just use PALM? Then you don¹t have to worry about this (since

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim permutation testing running after 3 days!

2016-08-30 Thread Harms, Michael
n parametric methods. Anderson tested them on a wide range of designs, but it was, of course, not exhaustive. The accuracy of his results may not extend to other designs, so it is a buyer-beware situation (as with all neuroimaging). On 8/29/16 10:16 PM, Harms, Michael wrote: > Hi, > I wouldn

Re: [Freesurfer] inclusion of both T1 and T2 in a recon-all run

2016-08-30 Thread Harms, Michael
FWIW, we’ve had good success with including the T2w scan as part of the FS 5.3-HCP release. cheers, -MH --  Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University S

Re: [Freesurfer] Multi-band slice timing correction

2016-09-07 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, One comment: I don’t know about the details of these particular scripts, but users should be aware that different SMS/MB implementations (e.g., CMRR vs. Siemens/MGH) do not necessarily use the same slice ordering. The safest thing to do is confirm the timing from the DICOMs. cheers, -MH --

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness using qdec (between scanners)

2016-09-29 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, Even if the two sites are the same Siemens model, you are going to have difficultly convincing people that any differences you find might not just be a site effect.  In my opinion, this falls into the “not possible at all” category. cheers, -MH --  Michael Harms, Ph

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA longitudinal stream: using multiple configuration files?

2016-10-25 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, I remember looking into this — all the time points for a given subject need to be specified in the same configuration file, otherwise you don’t get the longitudinal aspect of the processing. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Con

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all Exiting without Error

2016-10-31 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, Is this just an exercise to try to duplicate the HCP processing? Because we’ve already run all subjects (with released structural data) through FreeSurfer for users. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neurosc

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal Stream on HCP Data

2016-11-08 Thread Harms, Michael
To clarify, in that post, Matt wasn’t saying that FS was going to incorporate myelin maps. Rather, the new (v6) version of FS, with its support of data acquired with < 1 mm resolution, may eliminate the need for some of the steps that are currently the HCP Pipelines that are there to take full

Re: [Freesurfer] DTI Multi band sequence?

2016-11-30 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Martin, I’ve addressed this in your query to the FSL list. Please see my response there. -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry

Re: [Freesurfer] DTI Multi band sequence?

2016-11-30 Thread Harms, Michael
That would be yet another way. For those that are curious, the field is “MosaicRefAcqTimes”. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of Medicine Department o

Re: [Freesurfer] V6 FS eTICV versus CAT12 TICV with Small Heads

2016-12-16 Thread Harms, Michael
Wow, that’s a terrible correlation between two putative measures of head size. What does the scatterplot of FS’s “eTIV” vs “SupraTentorialVol” look like? The latter is based on the surfaces, so a scatterplot of the two can be a good way to identify cases where the talairach.xfm file (from whic

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_fix_topology hangs (?)

2013-11-07 Thread Harms, Michael
We are not using the -washu_mprage option in the HCP pipelines. My understanding is that flag dates way back to when WashU was running a "non-standard" MPRAGE. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Me

[Freesurfer] QAtools_v1.1 package

2014-01-09 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Vinke, In the QAtools_v1.1 package, should the supplied DefaultAsegMeans.txt file have "0 +/- 0" as all its entries? More generally, I was wondering what aspects of the QAtools package you've found most useful?  In particular, do the results from wm-anat-snr relate to data quality in a me

Re: [Freesurfer] brain orientation in qdecDouglas N Greve

2014-01-13 Thread Harms, Michael
To add to this thread, I have this same problem (upside-down display in tksurfer, with mismatch with the reported annotation labels in the Tools window) when using a CentOS 6.4 system, using both FS 5.1 and FS 5.3, but not when using a CentOS 5.5 system. If there is an easy fix for this (e

Re: [Freesurfer] brain orientation in qdecDouglas N Greve

2014-01-13 Thread Harms, Michael
ce Fischl" wrote: >Hi Mike > >what kind of mismatch do you mean? >Bruce >On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Harms, Michael >wrote: > >> >> To add to this thread, I have this same problem (upside-down display in >> tksurfer, with mismatch with the reported annotation l

Re: [Freesurfer] Multiple Frames

2014-01-22 Thread Harms, Michael
BTW: If you download the structural preprocessed data, the HCP data already includes aparc+aseg.nii.gz in both "native" space and transformed to MNI152 space. If you want the data values contained in the native space aseg.stats file of FreeSurfer, you can quickly get that as part of the spreadshe

[Freesurfer] Editing-related Wiki pages

2014-01-24 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, I see that the links off of  https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/TroubleshootingData now provide instructions for editing via Freeview rather than Tkmedit. I found the older instructions for editing via Tkmedit still available by appending "_tktools" rather than "_freevi

Re: [Freesurfer] Autorecon2 Pipeline Problem

2014-02-04 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Chad, Why do you say the Segmentation step overwrites your WM edits?  We've just run WM edits under FS 5.3 very recently and it worked fine.  Also, a glance at the recon-all script indicates that the Segmentation step is testing for the presence of existing edits. cheers, -MH --  Mic

Re: [Freesurfer] Rotation involved in recon-all

2014-02-06 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Ed, If you want to avoid the rotation (e.g., to avoid an interpolation at the conform step) then you need to manually alter the input so as to remove the off-diagonal elements. That is in fact what we do as part of our DICOM2NIFTI conversion in the HCP. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. -

Re: [Freesurfer] Rotation involved in recon-all

2014-02-06 Thread Harms, Michael
rm, > >Thanks for the trick. Will this, however, give not rise to conversion to >Talairach >coordinates? > >Cheers, >Ed > > >On 6 Feb 2014, at 15:38, Harms, Michael wrote: > >> >> Hi Ed, >> If you want to avoid the rotation (e.g., to avoid an interpo

[Freesurfer] wm.mgz and lh.orig.nofix not matching

2014-03-11 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi guys, I was wondering if someone could take a look at a subject that I just uploaded (L217_100908.zip). An RA was editing wm.mgz to attempt to fix a topology problem in the LH visual cortex.  The edited wm.mgz that she created looks fine to me, but after re-running FS, the surfaces still ar

Re: [Freesurfer] expert options command

2014-03-20 Thread Harms, Michael
You must have already run this subject once with an expert-options file? Once you've already run recon-all once on a subject with an expert-options file, you don't include it again in future invocations of recon-all.  The expert options that you've previously used will automatically get used

Re: [Freesurfer] Anonymizing Siemens DICOM files

2014-03-20 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Caspar, I can't address your question regarding a specific tool, but wanted to mention a note of caution. You need to make sure that you scrub any identifying info from Siemen's custom DICOM fields (not just the obvious public DICOM fields). The challenge of doing that is why the safest th

Re: [Freesurfer] Calculating Total White Matter

2014-03-21 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Elizabeth, The measure called "CorticalWhiteMatterVol" *is* the total cerebral white matter. See this page: http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/MorphometryStats The values for the "{lh,rh}CorticalWhiteMatterVol"measures in aseg.stats used to be the same as that returned by the 'mris_wm_volume' functi

Re: [Freesurfer] how to capture blurred GM/WM junction?

2014-03-24 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Doug, Is 'pctsurfcon' intended to supersede 'mri_cnr'? If not, what are the intended situations in which one would be used over the other? thanks, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Wa

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in FSL

2014-04-29 Thread Harms, Michael
Is the brain merely shown "sideways" in FSLview?  What matters is that the A/P/S/I/L/R labels are correct in FSLview, in which case the orientation info is read just fine, and it is solely a matter of how FSLview choses to display data that doesn't have an RAS/LAS orientation. cheers, -MH

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in FSL

2014-04-29 Thread Harms, Michael
; Reply-To: "std...@virgilio.it" <std...@virgilio.it> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 1:52 PM To: "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu>, Freesurfer support list <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Subject: R: Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in FSL

2014-04-29 Thread Harms, Michael
...@wustl.edu From: "std...@virgilio.it" <std...@virgilio.it> Reply-To: "std...@virgilio.it" <std...@virgilio.it> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:09 PM To: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>, "Harms, Michael&q

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in FSL

2014-04-29 Thread Harms, Michael
lio.it> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:09 PM To: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>, "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu> Subject: R: Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in FSL I'm trying to d

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in FSL

2014-04-29 Thread Harms, Michael
rfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>, "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu> Subject: R: Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: thalami mask (nii.gz) to import in FSL Please, see the snapshot attached. A/P/S/I/L/R labels seem correct. What do you think about

Re: [Freesurfer] Custom parcellation for HCP data

2015-10-05 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Simon,  Since you are using the HCP data, this may be more appropriate for the HCP-Users list. If you look at the current HCP pipeline code, you'll see that after converting FS surfaces to .surf.gii (using 'mris_convert'), an affine transform is then applied based on the c_ras contents (

Re: [Freesurfer] MPRAGE SNR

2015-10-19 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, FWIW, I've looked at a number of these measures in 500+ subjects from HCP data -- wm-anat-snr, pctsurfcon, G/W cnr, G/CSF cnr -- to see how they relate to each other, and whether they correlate with mean cortical thickness, white matter surface area, or number of SurfaceHoles (prior to topolo

Re: [Freesurfer] MPRAGE SNR

2015-10-19 Thread Harms, Michael
is has been my experience as well. Not much seems to predict which scans will need to be edited. On 10/19/15 10:23 AM, Harms, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > FWIW, I've looked at a number of these measures in 500+ subjects from HCP > data -- wm-anat-snr, pctsurfcon, G/W cnr, G/CSF cnr --

Re: [Freesurfer] MPRAGE SNR

2015-10-19 Thread Harms, Michael
anover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419     Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 at 12:24 PM From: "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu> To: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] MPRAGE SNR   A

Re: [Freesurfer] QA tools

2015-11-23 Thread Harms, Michael
In my experience, none of the quantitative "SNR/CNR" metrics available through various FS tools (some of which may be part of the QATools) replace the need to manually inspect the results. Some truly awful data may show up as "outliers", but you can't count on those values to flag all the data w

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentation comparison between FS5.3 and FS6beta

2015-12-15 Thread Harms, Michael
It seems problematic to me to use a nightly dev build for publication. cheers, -MH --  Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatr

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about Intracranial Volume

2016-01-11 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Pietro, One additional thing to consider is that the ICV (eTIV) is entirely dependent on the Talairach transform. Frequently, the accuracy of Talairach transform isn¹t explicitly checked by users, because the surfaces, aseg, etc can be accurate even if the Talairach transform isn¹t. cheers, -

Re: [Freesurfer] DTI - Tracula question

2016-02-05 Thread Harms, Michael
As an add-on to this, note that using a single table for all subjects is probably only appropriate if the DWI was acquired with a fixed orientation relative to the scanner gradient axes (e.g., strictly axial) for all subjects.  If the orientation was customized individually for each s

Re: [Freesurfer] eTIV question

2016-02-21 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, Why not use a measurement of brain size rather than “eTIV”? cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 S

Re: [Freesurfer] Ris: eTIV question

2016-02-22 Thread Harms, Michael
, Angela Favaro wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, thank you >>> > I think this would test something different: 'how much a brain >>> area is >>> > atrophic controlling for the average brain atrophy' and not >>>

Re: [Freesurfer] Ris: eTIV question

2016-02-22 Thread Harms, Michael
Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 South Euclid Ave.Tel: 314-747-6173 St. Louis, MO 63110Email: mha...@wustl.edu On 2/22/16, 10:19 PM, "freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Harms, Michael" wrote: Even assuming one had a true measure of TIV, if you get meaningfully different results

Re: [Freesurfer] Oblique Slice Acquisition

2016-04-13 Thread Harms, Michael
Just an aside: if you acquire oblique (e.g. AC/PC aligned), and don’t want FS to rotate the volume back into the native scanner space as part of its “conformation” step, you can edit the s/qform of the NIFTI header to appear as a non-oblique acquisition. As Bruce noted, this isn’t a big deal, alth

Re: [Freesurfer] white matter edits not incorporated

2016-04-21 Thread Harms, Michael
That looks very similar in principle to something I posted back in Oct. 2014 (“pial surface crossing white”). I think some of the subsequent back-and-forth with Bruce and Nick was off the list, so I’ve included the key email (where Bruce diagnosed the problem) below. Has this been fixed in the f

Re: [Freesurfer] does lGI needs correction for any global measure?

2016-05-06 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, There are certainly papers in which thickness is corrected using global mean thickness, and surface area is corrected using total surface area.  It is a valid approach, and one that I think is preferable to correcting by using a somewhat arbitrary adjustment to a non-like measure

Re: [Freesurfer] 2 unrelated questions regarding structural data

2016-05-13 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Josh, The WU-UMN HCP outputs provide the thickness values already aligned to a common mesh in the *thickness.{32,164}k_fs_LR.dscalar.nii files (both 32k and 164k mesh version available).  You  should be able to run a nice, permutation-based group analysis on those using the FSL PA

Re: [Freesurfer] mprage flag in recon-all

2013-05-31 Thread Harms, Michael
chwiedrzik" <cschwie...@mail.rockefeller.edu> Date: Friday, May 31, 2013 2:50 PM To: "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu>, "Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] mprage flag in recon-all yes, but recon-all

[Freesurfer] longitudinal processing versioning

2013-07-09 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi guys, We have some longitudinal scans in which the time1 (T1) scans were processed with FS 5.1, and the T2/T3 scans haven't been processed yet. I'm trying to assess whether the differences between FS 5.1 and 5.3 warrant us re-running the T1 scans under FS 5.3.   I see two possible optio

[Freesurfer] bugs with expert-options and clean flags

2013-07-11 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, There seem to be a couple small bugs in recon-all (FS 5.3) regarding the interface of trying to do a "clean" run on top of processing that used an expert-options file: 1) The "-xopts-clean" flag doesn't work.  It sets XOptsClean = 1, but doesn't set XOptsUse = 0.  Consequently, because

[Freesurfer] mris_curvature_stats

2013-07-11 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi again, Not sure if this is intentional or not, but I noticed that 'mris_curvature_stats' (FS 5.3) appends to Xh.curv.stats on successive invocation, rather than overwriting the existing file. I noticed this in the context of comparing the stats results from a "-clean" run vs. a fresh run fr

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface editing

2013-08-28 Thread Harms, Michael
Are you saying that edits to brainmask.mgz and brain.finalsurfs.manedit.mgz are not showing up as affecting the actual pial surfaces themselves? I would focus on whether the pial surfaces are fixed, not whether edits to brain.finalsurfs.manedit.mgz are "back-propagated" to brainmask.mgz.  (I

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface editing

2013-08-28 Thread Harms, Michael
From: Francesco Siciliano <sici...@nyspi.columbia.edu> Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 12:36 PM To: "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu> Subject: RE: [Freesurfer] pial surface editing My main issue is that the edits I make to brain.finalsurfs.manedit.mgz are not being incorpo

Re: [Freesurfer] dicom -> nifti, diffusion data gradient problems

2013-09-12 Thread Harms, Michael
onvert output? > >Thanks very much, >pt > > > > >On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Harms, Michael wrote: >> >> Were these oblique acquisitions? >> By default, dcm2nii and MRIConvert rotate the bvecs according to the >> orientation info for oblique acquis

Re: [Freesurfer] dicom -> nifti, diffusion data gradient problems

2013-09-12 Thread Harms, Michael
Were these oblique acquisitions? By default, dcm2nii and MRIConvert rotate the bvecs according to the orientation info for oblique acquisitions, whereas it sounds like mri_convert might not be doing that. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --

Re: [Freesurfer] recon all question

2013-09-13 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, A reasonable definition of TBV would be TotalGrayVol + CorticalWhiteMatterVol from the aseg.stats file. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of Medic

Re: [Freesurfer] Ghosting Artifact

2017-01-27 Thread Harms, Michael
That subjects looks like a candidate for exclusion, because the SNR anteriorly is much less than posteriorly. It looks to me like there is either a problem with your head coil, or the anterior coil elements were not active. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. -

Re: [Freesurfer] (no subject)

2017-06-07 Thread Harms, Michael
dcm2niix with the -s flag will allow you to convert a single DICOM that is part of a directory with other DICOMs cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of

Re: [Freesurfer] -openmp flag in mri_em_register

2017-06-08 Thread Harms, Michael
The HCP Pipeline scripts use ‘bash’. (setenv is for the csh shell). The equivalent for bash is: export OMP_NUM_THREADS=2 -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of Medi

[Freesurfer] mris_convert to GIFTI misaligned in freeview

2014-05-22 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, I converted a surface to GIFTI e.g., mris_convert lh.white lh.white.gii lh.white and lh.white.gii align when they are both loaded in 'tkmedit'. However, they do not align when loaded simultaneously in 'freeview'. Of possible relevance: When I loaded lh.white.gii into 'freeview', I got

Re: [Freesurfer] freeurfer manual edits

2014-06-12 Thread Harms, Michael
FWIW: In FS 5.3, -autorecon2-cp and -autorecon2-wm invoke the exact same set of flags. (This wasn't the case in earlier versions). cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington Un

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: Improving translation of Choi striatal ROIs to original domain

2014-06-18 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi, The recon-all based striatal parcellations are based on the anatomy of each particular subject, guided by a probabilistic atlas.  That is inherently likely to be more accurate that just taking a set of ROIs/parcellations defined in some (non-probabilistic) atlas and warping them to each

Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-23 Thread Harms, Michael
Actually, if you run 'recon-all' a second time (from scratch) on the same subject, on the same platform/architecture, and you use the default recon-all settings (i.e., don't use the -randomness flag, or specify your random seed via the -rng-seed flag), then you should get identical results, becaus

Re: [Freesurfer] Diffusion analysis qs - gradient matrix

2014-07-21 Thread Harms, Michael
FS uses FSL tools under the hood, so you want to use the bvecs that are rotated into the axes of the scan. cheers, -MH --  Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School

Re: [Freesurfer] insula on medial surface

2014-08-07 Thread Harms, Michael
to correct this kind of thing > >cheers >Bruce > > >On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Harms, Michael wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> An astute RA, while reviewing the aparc+aseg.mgz of brains processed >>with FS >> 5.3, noticed a fair number of instances, where the

Re: [Freesurfer] insula on medial surface

2014-08-07 Thread Harms, Michael
Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 South Euclid Ave. Tel: 314-747-6173 St. Louis, MO 63110Email: mha...@wustl.edu On 8/7/14 2:52 PM, "Bruce Fischl" wrote: >so that region really is cortex? It's not filled in ventricle or >anyt

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