Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC double trouble: 1. VerifySubjects 2. MatrixMultiply: m1 is null!

2013-09-25 Thread Nick Schmansky
Cédric, Does the first column of your Base_File_FreeSurfer.dat contain the freesurfer subject id? the first column must contain that. from the email below, where you show one line of the file, it looks like Subj# is the first column and SubjID is the second. Nick On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 14:07

Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC double trouble: 1. VerifySubjects 2. MatrixMultiply: m1 is null!

2013-09-25 Thread Nick Schmansky
gt; > > > > -Original Message- > From: Nick Schmansky > Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 6:44 PM > To: Cédric Koolschijn > Cc: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC double trouble: 1. VerifySubjects 2. > MatrixMul

Re: [Freesurfer] GIFTI file

2013-04-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
Valtina, It should be viewable in freeview. Try: freeview -f mysurface.gii tksurfer can load .gii files as well. also, mris_convert will convert to/from gifti. see its --help output. Nick On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 08:05 -0400, Valtina Pouegue wrote: > Hi, > > > I saw in the documentation th

Re: [Freesurfer] Very different results between 5.1.0 and 5.2.0

2013-04-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Daniel, We're repeating our paired-analysis of thickness measures between 5.1 and 5.2. In the meantime, to check for correctness, open the brain.finalsurfs.mgz file with the surfaces overlayed, and check the intensity value of the voxels which appear to be non-cortical 'black spaces', relative to

Re: [Freesurfer] setting thresholds in qdec

2013-04-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mike, We dont have a RHEL 5.9 system to replicate the issue. However, I did find a bug in qdec where the 'Min' value in the Threshold settings would not update the display when a value was entered. This bug was introduced when the 'Mid' value was removed (which is why I think the v5.1 qdec works

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface with FLAIR

2013-04-15 Thread Nick Schmansky
Veronica, Hi, can you copy me on the subject data upload? You can upload data here: https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/facility/filedrop/index.html Nick On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 12:30 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Veronica, > > we haven't seen that before. Can you upload your subject including th

Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC questions

2013-04-15 Thread Nick Schmansky
Tudor, In the recon-all.log, it has this line: ERROR: writing lh.jacobian_white.fwhm15.fsaverage.mgh but earlier in the log it saved lh.jacobian_white.fwhm10.fsaverage.mgh correctly, so this indicates to me that it might have run out of disk space. is that the case? to answer the others: 2. not

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all problems [solved]

2013-04-15 Thread Nick Schmansky
Marcos, Thanks for looking into this. We dont have a Fedora 18 system to replicate the problem on, but we're looking at the section of code described in bugzilla report. We may need your help to test any fixes we devise. Nick On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 17:59 -0300, Marcos Martins da Silva wrote: >

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all problems [solved]

2013-04-15 Thread Nick Schmansky
make it executable: chmod a+x tkmedit.bin it contains a potential fix to the problem (but i dont have a way to replicate the error to test it). Nick On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 18:02 -0400, Nick Schmansky wrote: > Marcos, > > Thanks for looking into this. We dont have a Fedora 18

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface with FLAIR

2013-04-16 Thread Nick Schmansky
Veronica, Can you send me the recon-all.log? The one where it is getting hung when you run this: recon-all -autorecon3 -subjid ${SUBJ_ID} -FLAIR $FLAIRFILE -FLAIRpial this should work, by importing the flair and then re-running the surface creation code, but perhaps there is a dependency bug th

Re: [Freesurfer] T2 pial

2013-04-17 Thread Nick Schmansky
Eduard, Can you send the whole recon-all.log file? The error show below is a strange one. It appears as if the string "ERROR: could not determine file" is the input to mri_convert, and I'm not sure how that can happen. Also double check (by viewing in freeview) that T2raw.mgz is a valid file (i

Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC questions

2013-04-21 Thread Nick Schmansky
hickness/score slopes (ie, > an interaction between group factor and continuous factor). > > > > > > E) The average brain with inflated cortex that results are > > projected on – is this the same average that is normally used in > > most papers,

Re: [Freesurfer] T2 pial

2013-04-22 Thread Nick Schmansky
>0.0407 0.6128 0.115766.9172 > > > > -0.0232 -0.0912 0.491150.6094 > > > > 0.0000 0.0000 0. 1. > > > > > > > > I also attach the "normal" streamline log file

Re: [Freesurfer] surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu down?

2013-04-24 Thread Nick Schmansky
Graham and other wiki users, The wiki is still accessible if you use 'https' instead of 'http'. Because wiki pages link to each other, you may run into links where you need to repeat this change. We're hoping the spambots that were slowing our wiki system will go away if accesses continue to fai

Re: [Freesurfer] System recommendations for Freesurfer

2013-04-24 Thread Nick Schmansky
Graham, Hi, to answer each: Intel vs AMD: no preference. also, CPU speed is not critical. Its better to have at least 4GB, and budget 4GB per subject you want to process simultaneously. Try to get a 'Sandy bridge' motherboard architecture or whatever is newer. This allows better addressing o

Re: [Freesurfer] System recommendations for Freesurfer

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Schmansky
ant to say 400MB per subject, not 400GB per subject:) > > > > On 4/24/13 8:42 PM, Nick Schmansky wrote: >> Graham, >> >> Hi, to answer each: >> >> Intel vs AMD: no preference. also, CPU speed is not critical. Its >> better to have at least

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian?

2013-04-27 Thread Nick Schmansky
Hi Graham, Freesurfer works with Ubuntu with one small change that's documented on the Downloads page (symlinking a library file). I dont know if others have used Mint, but Debian works with freesurfer w/o mods as far as i know. Ubuntu seems to be the most common choice of freesurfer users gauge

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert Segmentation fault (core dumped) lubuntu 13.04

2013-05-02 Thread Nick Schmansky
Joerg, Later this evening or tomorrow we'll post a beta that has the fixes for this problem for you to try on Ubuntu. When its ready, the centos6_x86_64 build will appear in this directory: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0-BETA/ Nick > Dear freesurfer administrators,

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert Segmentation fault (core dumped) lubuntu 13.04

2013-05-02 Thread Nick Schmansky
t; the newest version of glibc. > Em Qui, 2013-05-02 às 11:46 -0400, Nick Schmansky escreveu: > >> Joerg, >> >> Later this evening or tomorrow we'll post a beta that has the fixes for >> this problem for you to try on Ubuntu. When its ready, the >> centos

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint

2013-05-03 Thread Nick Schmansky
gt;longitudinal analysis? >> >>Is it because for linear mixed effects models analysis you need a base >>template for each time point? >> >>Thanks, >> >>Sarah >> >>From: Sarah Whittle >>Sent: Frida

Re: [Freesurfer] tip and tricks with patient with one big ventricle...

2013-05-03 Thread Nick Schmansky
this link is here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0-BETA/ the centos6_x86_64 build is there now. the others will appear as they finish their builds, which can take quite a bit of time... so check back every day or so n. > ok, I think Nick posted a link of where t

Re: [Freesurfer] tip and tricks with patient with one big ventricle...

2013-05-03 Thread Nick Schmansky
s glibc problem? > Em Sex, 2013-05-03 às 17:46 -0400, Nick Schmansky escreveu: > >> this link is here: >> >> ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0-BETA/ >> >> the centos6_x86_64 build is there now. the others will appear as they >> fini

Re: [Freesurfer] version 5.3 coming out soon

2013-05-04 Thread Nick Schmansky
Luke, It is just mris_make_surfaces that has changed (and a bug was found and fixed in mri_mask, but that bug only affected certain edits, and you would get a blank volume if you encountered that bug) so you can do the following to patch 5.2 to match 5.3: get mris_make_surfaces (and mri_mask) for

Re: [Freesurfer] Preprocessing error: 'GLIBCXX_3.4.9 not found'

2013-05-04 Thread Nick Schmansky
Joe, This error appears when a binary built on CentOS 6 is run on an OS with an older glibc, like CentOS 4/5. Fsl no longer builds on 4/5 so that is why this appeared for you recently. Update to CentOS 6 if you are at the nmr center or use the fsl by doing this setenv FSL_DIR /usr/pubsw/packag

Re: [Freesurfer] tip and tricks with patient with one big ventricle...

2013-05-06 Thread Nick Schmansky
sion 5.3.0 over 5.2.0 ?... > > Sincerely, > > > Gonzalo Rojas Costa > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Nick Schmansky > wrote: >> this link is here: >> >> ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0-BETA/ >> >> the centos6_x8

Re: [Freesurfer] UNRESOLVED: Re: Freesurfer License issue/bug on Opensuse 12.3

2013-05-07 Thread Nick Schmansky
Nicola and Nick, Can you try the tkmedit.bin found here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/linux-centos6_x86_64/ copy it to the freesurfer/tktools directory (the wrapper script 'tkmedit' in the bin dir calls the binary in the tktools dir). I'm hoping the problem you ar

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentation fault (core dumped) again in the BETA version

2013-05-07 Thread Nick Schmansky
Martina, Can you send me the recon-all.log file? Nick On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 17:38 +0200, martina.andell...@fastwebnet.it wrote: > Hi Freesurfer experts, > I've got Ubuntu version 13.04 installed on my computer, and after I saw the > post > : "http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harv

Re: [Freesurfer] UNRESOLVED: Re: Freesurfer License issue/bug on Opensuse 12.3

2013-05-07 Thread Nick Schmansky
ement and have people agree to a license prior to > downloading? Lots of folks probably enter bogus information into the > registration form anyway. > Just trying to be constructive. > > Thanks very much for your help > > Nick > > On 05/07/2013 12:14 PM, Nick Schmansky wrot

Re: [Freesurfer] UNRESOLVED: Re: Freesurfer License issue/bug on Opensuse 12.3

2013-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky
.3 and 5.3 BETA. > > Thanks > > Nick > > On 05/07/2013 05:06 PM, Nick Schmansky wrote: > > Nick, > > > > Can you request another license file? The info in the .license file > > that is shown in your email below does not appear to be valid. There is >

Re: [Freesurfer] UNRESOLVED: Re: Freesurfer License issue/bug on Opensuse 12.3

2013-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky
The original also yields > a license error (no segfault). You are right, my earlier test called > tkmedit.bin directly. > > Thanks > > Nick > > On 05/08/2013 12:07 PM, Nick Schmansky wrote: > > Nick, > > > > Hi, I found what might the source of the problem

Re: [Freesurfer] ICV

2013-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky
to add to this, the registration it uses is performed on the whole head, so skull/skin/dura/fat/neck is included, which make the registration less susceptible to mis-registration due to lesions/atrophy/resection. n. On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 15:15 -0400, Douglas N Greve wrote: > I don't know, I don'

Re: [Freesurfer] UNRESOLVED: Re: Freesurfer License issue/bug on Opensuse 12.3

2013-05-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
ents crypt differently (working theory anyway). you can confirm that mri_convert is using this new lib by typing: cd $FREESURFER_HOME/bin ldd ./mri_convert and you should see libcrypt in the list with a path to the freesurfer/lib dir. Nick > Hi Nick (Schmansky), > > sorry to jump bac

Re: [Freesurfer] REPOST: NFS v4 on CentOS 5.4 or Red Hat 6.2

2013-05-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Gari, At the NMR Center we use NFS v4 without problems with freesurfer. Is the SUBJECTS_DIR writable? Note that in the default freesurfer distribution, the freesurfer/subjects directory is not writable (contains sample and template subjects). Nick > Hi, > Has anybody got problems using FS wit

Re: [Freesurfer] Centos vs. Ubuntu

2013-05-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Katie, The next release, v5.3 (hopefully next week), will fix a problem with running on Ubuntu 13, but freesurfer works on Ubuntu 12 as well (with one modification described on our download page). So there are no reasons not to pick Ubuntu other than who will maintain it. If its just one machine

Re: [Freesurfer] REPOST: NFS v4 on CentOS 5.4 or Red Hat 6.2

2013-05-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
d the sys admin for the output of the system-config-nfs, I > don't > have admin privileges to run it. > > thanks again! > Gari > > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Nick Schmansky > wrote: > >> Gari, >> >> At the NMR Center we use NFS v4

[Freesurfer] beta v5.3 for fedora 18 and ubuntu 13

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Schmansky
Fedora 18, Ubuntu 13 and Gentoo 64 users, another beta of the upcoming v5.3 is available here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0-BETA/freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pub-v5.3.0-BETA.tar.gz this one is just intended for the Fedora 18, Ubuntu 13, Gentoo 64 users who

Re: [Freesurfer] beta v5.3 for fedora 18 and ubuntu 13

2013-05-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
to my first contribution: > > > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg28267.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all error

2013-05-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mia, Hi, in looking at the mri/orig/001.mgz, the image in the sagital and coronal planes look inverted. also, i noticed this mri_info: dimensions: 566 x 256 x 992 voxel sizes: 1., 1., 1. which seems like unusual input. how was this converted from the dicom? did it necessitate

[Freesurfer] The v5.3 release is here

2013-05-15 Thread Nick Schmansky
Freesurfers, The new version of Freesurfer, v5.3, is available for download! Recall from our prior posting that this is intended to replace v5.2, which had a problem with pial and white surface generation affecting thickness and area measures. Users should not use v5.2 for any surface-based st

Re: [Freesurfer] missing DOSS option in QDEC

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Schmansky
Andreas, DOSS was removed from qdec because the contrast generation code in qdec was not appropriate for it (and we didnt have time to add it). You will have to use the command-line mri_glmfit and create your own contrasts to use DOSS. There are examples on the wiki i think. Nick > Hi surfers

Re: [Freesurfer] ERROR: recon-all -subcortseg

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Schmansky
Akio, You should just run -autorecon2 instead of -subcortseg in order to get the subcortical segmentation. Nick > Hi Freesurfer experts, > > After installing v5.3.0 (CentOS 6 64bit), the command "recon-all -s test > -i sample-001.mgz -i sample-002.mgz -autorecon1" finished without error. > > Th

Re: [Freesurfer] Autorecon2 missing ribbon.mgz error?

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Schmansky
Jamie, Does running with the -all flag run all the way to complete without error? We recommend running with -all and then inspect for defects afterwards instead of running the first run in stages. Nick > Hi Freesurfer List- > > My group just recently installed 5.3.0 and I kept running into the

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer v5.3.0

2013-05-21 Thread Nick Schmansky
Kristina, We havent created a Windows Virtual Machine freesurfer bundle yet, but if you already have, or know how to create, an xubuntu vm instance on windows, then all you have to do is download and install the centos distribution from within that xubunbtu instance. if your xubuntu is 32, then y

Re: [Freesurfer] "segmentation fault" - recon-all

2013-08-20 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mark, How was the .gca file created? Can you send us this file? Nick On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 14:15 -0500, Mark Plantz wrote: > Thanks for the responses. > > > I think I have determined the cause of the error. I thought it would > be OK to run recon-all with a .gca atlas that contained some dif

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec issue

2012-06-11 Thread Nick Schmansky
kk, can you send me your qdec.table.data? qdec automatically assigns a factor as a fixed fctor if it is not a number (as sscanf determines), so maybe there is a data point that is wrong. nick On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 11:42 -0400, Kushal Kapse wrote: > hi, > > i am trying to do group analysis in

Re: [Freesurfer] Building FreeSurfer with OpenMP enabled

2012-06-12 Thread Nick Schmansky
Akio, the results of our dev tree will be different from the stable branch (as we are continually incorporating improvements in the dev tree which eventually make their way into the public stable release). The new OpenMP code will also change the results, but we have found not significant differe

Re: [Freesurfer] Building FreeSurfer with OpenMP enabled

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
s not function correctly? > > (2) Is there any special reason why we can use more than one thread only > in 'mri_ca_register'? > At this point in time, I would like to speed up 'mri_em_register' as > well (and some others programs too, in the future). > Any comment

Re: [Freesurfer] ROI labels

2012-06-19 Thread Nick Schmansky
Cat, Hi, unfortunately qdec doesnt support loading multiple labels. However, you can use tksurfer to do that. Another useful thing to know is that the right most column of a label file can hold a stats value, so with a bit of text editing/scripting, you can store say a p-value into the rois labe

Re: [Freesurfer] Recent paper on FreeSurfer reliability

2012-06-20 Thread Nick Schmansky
Peter, Thanks for this info. The Mac OS versions compared in the paper were 10.5 and 10.6 (Leopard and Snow Leopard). One of the major changes between these two versions was the switch from a 32b kernel to a 64b kernel (whereas Snow Leopard and Lion both use a 64b kernel). I havent been able to

Re: [Freesurfer] Recent paper on FreeSurfer reliability

2012-06-20 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mike, I have run such tests in the past (which showed about 2-3% variability in hippo volume due to randomness) and Doug has done similar tests, but admittedly running a large scale analysis and showing the results on a wiki page would be useful. Something like running our Buckner40 and/or ADNI60

Re: [Freesurfer] OpenMP parallelization

2012-06-25 Thread Nick Schmansky
aiko, in particular, grep on HAVE_OPENMP in the c files in dev/utils. eg gcamorph.c., also dev/mri_ca_register/mri_ca_register.c. we havent done anything with em reg, but welcome any improvements you can make per what you see with how ca_reg was done. this is the pattern of speed improvements w

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec factor.levels problem

2012-07-03 Thread Nick Schmansky
Anne, It looks like the diagnosis.levels file has 'MApsychosis' as a level but the error message says 'Psychosis', so they would need to match. Nick On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:51 +0200, Anne Uhlmann wrote: > Hello FreeSurfers, > > I have a similar problem as described in an old thread > (http:/

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Carolina, It means its smoothing on the surface with a kernel of 10mm full-width half-max. Smoothing on the surface can generally be larger than in a volume. See these slides for a description of the difference: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/docs/fs.surface-based-analysis.ppt you can u

Re: [Freesurfer] nu_correct problem

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Chris, This is an unusual error. I dont know why nu_correct would be found for some subjects but not others, if its being run on the same platform. I can only think this is a network issue. Is it replicable? nu_correct can be run from the command line. The intensity normalization issues in v5

Re: [Freesurfer] nu_correct problem

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
> > Attached is the table and the levels files. Do you know what is wrong? > > Best regards, > > Viola > > > > Von: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > [freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu]" im Auftrag von &qu

Re: [Freesurfer] tcsh: tailarach_avi: Command not found

2012-08-20 Thread Nick Schmansky
Fidel, I don't know why those files are missing from the Tiger ppc distribution, but i confirmed that indeed they are. Here is a tarball of the distribution which contains everything: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.1.0/freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar.gz

Re: [Freesurfer] Problems with ICV calculations in fs5.1.0?

2012-08-20 Thread Nick Schmansky
The problem with the ICV calc in v5.1 is explained in the v5.1 Known Issues section of the ReleaseNotes page, which i've also just updated with notes on a workaround: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReleaseNotes the workaround is to type these commands: cd subjid/mri talairach_avi --i

Re: [Freesurfer] tracula-snowleopard updates

2012-08-27 Thread Nick Schmansky
Hi, Yes, they do, just overwrite the ones in freesurfer/bin. Nick On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 09:45 -0700, Cat Chong wrote: > Hello Experts, > > > Just a quick question: Do the Tracula updates(dmri_mergepaths, etc) > for snow_leopard replace the 'old' ones in freesurfer's "bin" > directory? > che

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_watershed and other errors.

2012-08-29 Thread Nick Schmansky
try running: recon-all -s -skullstrip -no-wsgcaatlas if that works, continue the rest with: recon-all -s -autorecon2 -autorecon3 n. On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 17:01 +, Darren R Gitelman wrote: > Hi > > I am having a problem getting recon-all to finish on 1 subject. > > The first time I r

Re: [Freesurfer] freeview tracula error

2012-08-29 Thread Nick Schmansky
does freeview otherwise appear to be working? that is, does it crash? the 'invalid drawable' messages can be ignored on the mac. n. On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 14:29 -0700, Cat Chong wrote: > > Dear Experts: > I have worked my way through Tracula and things seem to work fine, but > when I try to

Re: [Freesurfer] creating a gca file from .mgz files

2012-08-29 Thread Nick Schmansky
i think there should be an error log that outputs the errors that mri_ca_train found. or you can run mri_ca_train with the -check flag. it performs checks looking for voxels that are in the wrong hemisphere, based on the talairach registration. for mri_convert, be sure to include the flag -rt n

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_watershed and other errors.

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Schmansky
Darren, I forgot to mention that you'll need to add -clean-bm after the -no-wsgcaatlas flag, otherwise the prior brainmask.mgz will be retained and the new one will be saved as brainmask.auto.mgz. Nick On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:54 -0500, Darren Gitelman wrote: > Nick, List: > > > > Still

Re: [Freesurfer] tksurfer not working properly

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Schmansky
Deirdre, this is the infamous 'sliver' problem. consult this page for solutions: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TksurferDisplayProblems Nick On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 13:39 -0400, Deirdre O Shea wrote: > Hello, > > I am just getting to get grips with using FreeSurfer to reconstruct >

Re: [Freesurfer] kvl binaries missing from ppc 5.1 stable release

2012-09-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
ice will be appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Fidel > > > On 20-Aug-12, at 8:48 AM, Nick Schmansky wrote: > > Fidel, > > I don't know why those files are missing from the Tiger ppc > distribution, > but i confirmed that indeed they are. Here is a tarball of the &

Re: [Freesurfer] kvl binaries missing from ppc 5.1 stable release

2012-09-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
400, Anthony Dick wrote: > Hello--was just thinking about upgrading to Mountain Lion. Am I to > assume freesurfer will not work if I do this? > > Anthony > > On 9/10/12 11:58 AM, Nick Schmansky wrote: > > Fidel, > > > > Sorry, but the GEMS tools are not built for

Re: [Freesurfer] More than two time-points in longitudinal base = Memory allocation error?

2012-10-03 Thread Nick Schmansky
Liz, a 64bit build is in the works. in the meantime, you can get a version of mri_robust_register built for lion (64b) here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/macos-lion/ Nick On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 12:12 -0400, Martin Reuter wrote: > Hi Liz, > > I have no idea about

Re: [Freesurfer] Error with updated freeview.bin

2012-10-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
Wil, I've just uploaded the latest-greatest dev build of freeview.bin for centos6 here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/linux-centos6_x86_64/ hopefully that will work. there could be library dependency issues though. Nick On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 18:32 +, Irwin, Wil

Re: [Freesurfer] Talairach Failure Detection

2012-10-17 Thread Nick Schmansky
Daniel, See this page which i just created which describes a workaround to a problem some people are having with the Talairach stage in the v5.1 release: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TalFailV5.1 Nick On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 08:24 +0200, Daniel Ferreira wrote: > Dear experts, > > Pl

Re: [Freesurfer] Talairach Failure Detection

2012-10-22 Thread Nick Schmansky
ain and standars are slided down to the > bottom of the window. > See a new output attached. > > What can be happening here? Any idea to fix it? > > thanks > >

Re: [Freesurfer] Changes to Sub-cortical Structures after adding WM control points

2012-10-23 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mark, I've posted the recon-all that will be used in the upcoming v5.2, which contains the fix whereby control points are no longer used in the aseg, here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/allplatforms/ you can copy it to your v5.1 distro, but note i've named it recon-al

Re: [Freesurfer] Compiling on Linux PPC

2012-10-23 Thread Nick Schmansky
Tony, the powerpc is a big-endian processor, so make sure the BYTEORDER gets defined as 4321 by configure (see a Makefile). see dcm.c for code that depends on endianness and make sure the big-endian code gets compiled. i dont think the configure.in script is smart enough to setup the endian order

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_topo_fixer -mgz -warnings -seed 1234

2012-10-24 Thread Nick Schmansky
the new mris_topo_fixer is here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/linux-centos4_x86_64/ On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 09:22 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote: > yes, that should be fine. > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Anne Uhlmann wrote: > > > OK, thank you. That would be great. > > Can I ju

Re: [Freesurfer] freeze old freesurfer distribution

2012-11-05 Thread Nick Schmansky
Hannah, Hi! I think on the Mac, the command is: cp -LR that is, a capital R instead of lowercase (which is the case on linux). I'll update the wiki page. Nick On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 16:30 +0100, Bruehl, Hannah wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a problem with the command for creating a frozen versi

Re: [Freesurfer] Feature request (adding origin info to surface files)

2012-11-07 Thread Nick Schmansky
Luke, A quick answer (w/o looking into it too much): does: mris_info rh.pial give you the info you need? what i'm not sure of is whether everything you see in that output is available in the structure that the matlab surface reader loads. Nick On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 09:17 -0500, Luke Bloy wr

Re: [Freesurfer] Feature request (adding origin info to surface files)

2012-11-11 Thread Nick Schmansky
http://wideman-one.com/gw/brain/fs/surfacefileformats.htm doesn't > mention any of this info being in the file. is there an updated spec > file on the file formats? > > > Thanks. > -Luke > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Nick Schmansky >

Re: [Freesurfer] tkregister2 error on lion

2012-11-15 Thread Nick Schmansky
Rito, Hi, tkregister2 works for me on lion. do tkmedit and tksurfer work? did you install XQuartz via these instructions? https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MacTksurfer Actually i dont know if it necessary for lion to install XQuartz, but that is what i am running on my lion system (bec

Re: [Freesurfer] (no subject)

2012-11-28 Thread Nick Schmansky
Hugh, That fix is described in the Known Issues section of 5.1 on the Release Notes page: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReleaseNotes look for the section where you need to edit your recon-all script to comment-out the line where the control point is used by ca_norm. Nick On Tue, 2

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all unable to make pial and white surfaces

2012-12-04 Thread Nick Schmansky
Negar, This appears to be a strange problem. From the recon-all.log file, the important error is this one: GCAread(/usr/local/freesurfer/average/RB_all_2008-03-26.gca): couldn't expand gcs to 1114693712 which means it failed to alloc the 1.2GB needed to load the atlas. but given that earlier i

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all unable to make pial and white surfaces

2012-12-04 Thread Nick Schmansky
attached snapshots indicate that possibly you are already running the centos vm. Nick On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 17:41 -0500, Nick Schmansky wrote: > Negar, > > This appears to be a strange problem. From the recon-all.log file, the > important error is this one: > > GCAread(/usr/local/

Re: [Freesurfer] winkler surf data with qdec ?

2012-12-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Greg, one of the -qcache outputs is named 'fwhm0', which will be unsmoothed. you can also specify creation of just that file by adding '-fwhm 0' after the -qcache flag. Nick > Hi , > > I have winkler variety surface area data that is already smoothed and > converted to vertex wise data on my a

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_cc segfault

2012-12-18 Thread Nick Schmansky
PPJ, Hi, if you want, you can send me the input files (the two aseg's and the lta) and i can try to replicate the segfault in a debugger. also, if you want, there is a beta of the upcoming v5.2 which is posted here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.2.0-BETA/ which you could

Re: [Freesurfer] fscalc / mris_calc problem

2013-01-02 Thread Nick Schmansky
Fred, You can try an updated mris_calc for the mac found here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/macos-leopard-intel/ Nick On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:21 +0200, Rudolph Pienaar wrote: > Hi Fred -- > > I'm currently traveling and have limited internet connectivity. I'll be

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 5.2 release date?

2013-01-03 Thread Nick Schmansky
Hi, A beta of the upcoming v5.2 is available here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.2.0-BETA/ the hold-up has been getting the 64b mac lion build working, which has been a challenge, but we're close. I dont anticipate these posted linux builds to change, so barring bugs th

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec question

2013-01-04 Thread Nick Schmansky
Maria, In qdec there is not a built-in mechanism to restrict analysis to a particular region. By design it runs a whole-cortex analysis, masking just the medial (non-cortical) region, and then i suppose if your lucky (if your ROI is significant compared to everything else) your region will appear

Re: [Freesurfer] Crash with full install of 5.2

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Schmansky
Carl, I see that is one of our Mac OS X builds (the toughest to get working), we'll try to replicate. Thanks for passing along the info. Nick On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 15:50 -0500, Carl Anderson wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I did the full install for 5.2 but got the following crash during > Talairach:

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all 5.2 crashes after 30s

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Schmansky
This line hidden in the output I think is the reason: mri_make_uchar: Command not found. That command was introduced in 5.1, and is used by the talairach stage. As Martin suggests, a separate v5.2 install is necessary. Nick On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 15:40 -0500, Martin Reuter wrote: > Hi Jonathan,

Re: [Freesurfer] Problems in testing out newly installed Freesurfer with autorecon-1 option

2013-01-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
Susan, there appear to be two problems here. the first and main problem is the one: nu_correct: Command not found. nu_correct is a script which has as its first line: #!/usr/bin/perl -w so can you check that you have perl installed at /usr/bin/perl? better yet, run this script: fixup_mni_pa

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer problem on VirtualBox Linux

2013-01-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
Carissa, Unfortunately I dont think we can help with this problem, as we currently do not have the resources to support the Windows VM instance. However, an alternative that has worked for others is to do the following: install the FSL Windows VM, described here: http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fsl

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: Problems in testing out newly installed Freesurfer with autorecon-1 option

2013-01-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
/usr/bin/perl exists, so that's ok. I've been > crawling the forums, but I can't find a good answer for what appears > to be a simple problem. Can I fix this manually? > > > Thanks! > Susie > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Nick Schmansky > wrote: &g

Re: [Freesurfer] FW: Freesurfer fails

2013-01-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
Crystal, I can replicate the failure you are seeing, and the problem is one that is fixed for the upcoming v5.2. It is described here: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TalFailV5.1 the first solution described should fix your problem. Nick On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 18:49 +, Franklin,

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all 5.2 not generating surfaces

2013-01-14 Thread Nick Schmansky
Jon, the log indicates that mri_em_register was running. does 'top' show if mri_em_register is running? it can take quite a while (upwards of 40 minutes), and the log can sit unchanged for several minutes during the section shown in your log. Nick On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 15:25 -0500, Jonathan H

Re: [Freesurfer] peculiar postop recon?

2013-01-15 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mia, Generally for me its easier to visualize problems in tkmedit (or freeview) by loading the volume with the surfaces overlaid, which makes it easier to see where surfaces failed to follow. For a lobectomy though, freesurfer might have problems. If you want to send me a link (offline) to the l

[Freesurfer] v5.2.0 beta, round two

2013-01-18 Thread Nick Schmansky
For those willing and brave enough, another beta of v5.2.0 has been posted here for you to download and test: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.2.0-BETA/ The Mac builds should work (note: the lion build is 64b, snow-leopard is 32b). The final release still awaits some critic

Re: [Freesurfer] beta

2013-01-20 Thread Nick Schmansky
gt;> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Freesurfer digest..." >> >> Today's Topics: >> >>1. v5.2.0 beta, round two (Nick Schmansky) >>2. Re: pial not computing (Borzello, Mia

Re: [Freesurfer] Results Vary

2013-01-22 Thread Nick Schmansky
also there is an issue in v5.1 where the second run of recon-all on a given platform will produce different results from the first (but subsequent runs should produce identical results). this issue has been fixed in the upcoming v5.2 release. nick On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 10:18 -0500, Douglas N Gr

Re: [Freesurfer] Memory problem

2013-01-23 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mia, also i noticed this at the top of the log: total used free Mem: 37010736 19490372 17520364 -/+ buffers/cache: 10784236 26226500 Swap: 8393952 1505288243424 it shows that just 1.7GB is available for the recon to run, which is belo

Re: [Freesurfer] Memory problem

2013-01-24 Thread Nick Schmansky
e solution running the recon in a > whole new place with more space? > > Thanks so much, > m > > From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > [freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of Nick Schmansky > [ni...@nmr.mgh.harv

Re: [Freesurfer] ERROR: /52/freesurfer/average/3T18yoSchwartzReactN32_as_orig.4dfp.img does not exist!

2013-01-24 Thread Nick Schmansky
the best option is to download the beta of v5.2 which linked from here: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReleaseNotes (look for 'Get a BETA here'). i've confirmed that that atlas is contained in that release. Nick > Hi FS experts, > I read that the current dev version for recon-all i

Re: [Freesurfer] Results Vary

2013-01-24 Thread Nick Schmansky
randomness enabled. Nick > Hi Nick, > > Could you clarify this? So if we re-run a subject in 5.1 (say after doing > some edits), we would then need to run it again a third time in order to > maintain consistency? Thanks. > > -Derin > > > On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Nick

Re: [Freesurfer] "nu_estimate_np_and_em" error during recon-all

2013-01-28 Thread Nick Schmansky
Tudor, Greg, and Petr, I'm currently attempting to replicate this problem. In the meantime, can you tell me which Windows and which VirtualBox version you are running this on? I'm at a loss as to why this build no longer works. Nick On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 18:19 +, Tudor Popescu wrote: > De

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