Hi Donna, Tim,

Thank you both for your help -cifti-separate was the way to go.

Best,
levi

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> wrote:

> -cifti-convert is not intended to make files that will work nicely as
> single-surface files, it is more of a hack for software that can't read
> cifti yet:
>
> -cifti-convert            DUMP CIFTI MATRIX INTO OTHER FORMATS
>
> The -cifti-separate command is how you take a structure from a cifti file
> and turn it into a non-cifti file that will load and display nicely.
>
> Cifti does not store surface geometry, so .surf.gii files must be derived
> from something else (like freesurfer or other provided files).  Surface
> files also don't store ROIs, those go in .func.gii files, just like other
> surface data besides geometry.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Donna Dierker <do...@brainvis.wustl.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I use wb_command -cifti-separate for this purpose.
>>
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2015, at 10:52 AM, LEVI SOLOMYAK <
>> ly...@scarletmail.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > I am working with a cifti dlabel.nii file. I'm attempting to use those
>> labels to create ROI's but i need those files to be in gifti. I have tried
>> various ways of doing this with no success.
>> >
>> > I have been relying on the following two commands:
>> > wb_command -cifti-label-to-roi
>> > wb_command -cifti-convert -to-gifti-ext
>> >
>> > but am guessing that I have not been implementing them properly.
>> >
>> > I have tried first creating the ROIs and then converting them to gifti
>> and vice versa. When I convert the dlabel file to label.gii file I get an
>> invalid structure error.
>> > When I create the rois and then attempt to convert them to gifti
>> surface files I get a "Number of data arrays MUST be two in a SurfaceFile"
>> error.
>> >
>> > Any help would be much appreciated!
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > I.S.
>> >
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