Ok thanks for the information. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 03:25, Donna Dierker <do...@brainvis.wustl.edu>wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 07:31 PM, Tristan Chaplin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been reading about the creation of your atlases, and I see that > > PALS and the macaque atlases have standard size mesh of 73,730 nodes. > > I was wondering, is this the same across species to allow > > interspecies registration? i.e. is it still possible to do > > interspecies comparisons of other species with different size meshes? > Possible, but more difficult. Not to say that achieving vertex > correspondence across species is trivial. Interspecies comparisons are > really hard. I think David Van Essen is the only one in our lab that is > doing them, although Matt Glasser might also be doing some. > > > > I was also wondering how the standard mesh was was actually made. The > > PALS paper refers to the Saad 2004 paper, which I think uses SUMA. > > SUMA has a program called MapIcosahedron to create standard meshes. > > Is this still how you would recommend making a standard mesh? > Tim Coalson (a student who works summers here) also developed a utility > that creates meshes of specified resolution. > > Making a standard mesh is not something I ever do. You do it with a > specific motivation -- typically some other important data is already > available on that mesh. And the way you usually get your data on that > mesh is to register it to an atlas target already on that mesh. > > If you are talking about creating, say, a sparser mesh for mice/rats, > then you're out of my orbit. > > > > Thanks, > > Tristan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > caret-users mailing list > > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > caret-users mailing list > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users >
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