OK, now I see. 

At first, it wasn't clear to me that this registration process also changed the 
number of nodes. 

Thanks! 

On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Donna Dierker wrote:

> If you did followed the steps in Spherical Registration (page 46) of 
> that tutorial, then you should have results in the ATLAS_LEFT_HEM directory.
> 
> But rather than using the colin target, use this atlas target dataset 
> (PALS_B12.LR):
> 
> http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/archivelist.do?archive_id=6057499
> 
> This has the 73730 standard mesh sphere.
> 
> If you register your subject to this target, then you will have your 
> deformed surface in the extracted atlas target directory on the 73730 mesh.
> 
> If you have Freesurfer surfaces, I suspect the pipeline will be the 
> shorter path to what you want.
> 
> On 04/12/2011 05:06 PM, Colin Davey wrote:
>> Thanks Donna! 
>> 
>> 
>>> http://brainvis.wustl.edu/wiki_linked_files/documentation/Caret_5.5_Tutorial_Segment.pdf
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have gone through that tutorial, but it doesn't change the number of 
>> vertices of the mesh (unless I missed something). As you said, "changing the 
>> geometry doesn't change the mesh". 
>> 
>> I'm asking about the ability to *resample* meshes to 73,730 nodes. "Using a 
>> strategy introduced by Saad et al (2004), the various surface 
>> configurations...were resampled so that they were represented using the 
>> 73,730-node 'standard-mesh'..." (A PALS Atlas of Human Cerebral Cortex, Van 
>> Essen 2005). Was that in Caret, or was that done outside of Caret? 
>> 
>> I haven't gotten the Freesurfer process under control yet, and will no doubt 
>> have questions about that before long (some basic newbie ones no doubt). 
>> 
>> On Apr 12, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Donna Dierker wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> Thanks for the reply!
>>>> 
>>>> I was under the impression that inflating, flattening and registration
>>>> didn't change the number of verteces in the mesh. That way, one can easily
>>>> go from a point in the flat mesh to the corresponding point in the
>>>> original space. (ie, if a vertex on the flatmap is vertex number 12,329,
>>>> than one need only get the coordinates of the 12,329th vertex of the
>>>> corresponding cortical mesh.)
>>>> 
>>> Correct -- changing the geometry doesn't change the mesh.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I couldn't find a tutorial that shows how to do the surface-based
>>>> registration to an atlas such that it changes the number of vertices (for
>>>> example to '74k').
>>>> 
>>> Look for the word "Registration" in the title, e.g.:
>>> 
>>> http://brainvis.wustl.edu/wiki_linked_files/documentation/Caret_5.5_Tutorial_Segment.pdf
>>> 
>>> But as I said earlier, if you use the pipeline, there is a command line
>>> step near the end of the postborder.sh script that runs spherical
>>> registration.  Everything in preborder.sh and postborder.sh is leading up
>>> to this final step.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:25 PM, David Van Essen wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Colin,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Segmentation produces a 'native mesh' whose exact node number cannot be
>>>>> prespecified in Caret (or in other segmentation algorithms I know
>>>>> about).
>>>>> 
>>>>> The 73,730-node mesh ('74k' in our latest lingo) arises from
>>>>> surface-based registration to an atlas - either the macaque F99 atlas (a
>>>>> 74k_f99 mesh) or the human PALS-B12 atlas (a 74k_pals mesh) - using the
>>>>> appropriate tutorial.
>>>>> 
>>>>> David VE
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Colin Davey wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How do you create a 73,730 standard-mesh with Caret? I assume you begin
>>>>>> by going through segmentation, flattening and registration process from
>>>>>> the tutorial of the same name. But then what?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> - C
>>>>>> 
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