There is a bug in -cifti-correlation-gradient in 0.82 and earlier that will
be fixed in the next release - if you don't specify smoothing, it will run
extremely long and give the wrong answer.  Specify a surface smoothing
kernel of any positive size and all will be well in that command.

Tim



On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Sebastian Urchs
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey Matt,
>
> thank you very much for your email. I am trying to create cifti timeseries
> from non hcp data (i.e. our own data). The reason I want to do that is that
> I want to use the connectome workbench -cifti-correlation-gradient command
> to generate a functional connectivity gradient map and the command requires
> the format.
>
> I have so far attempted to generate the cifti timeries
> with -cifti-create-dense-timeseries using .metric files as metric inputs
> (created from my 4D nifti with -metric-convert) but when I use this cifti
> timeseries as input to -cifti-correlation-gradient the process keeps
> running indefinitely, neither crashing nor finishing (after about 24h).
> That's why I moved on to the above mentioned example that requires
> .shape.gii files
>
> So I guess I have to extend my question:
> 1) Do I need the .shape.gii file to generate a cifti timeseries from a 4D
> nii to use as input to -cifti-correlation-gradient
> 2) If so, how would I go about doing that?
> 3) If not, what would be the correct command to run
> -cifti-correlation-gradient
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Sebastian
>
>
> On 31 July 2013 22:34, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  While I'm happy to explain how to do this, what is the reason you need
>> to recreate this file?  We do distribute these cifti timeseries already
>> made and the process to make them as we have requires multiple steps,
>> described at a conceptual level in:
>>
>>  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811913005053
>>
>>  We should just be sure that recreating the dense timeseries is really
>> the easiest way to accomplish whatever you are trying to do.
>>
>>  Peace,
>>
>>  Matt.
>>
>>   From: Sebastian Urchs <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 8:57 AM
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [HCP-Users] -cifti-create-dense-timeseries input question
>>
>>   Hi all,
>>
>>  I am trying to create a cifti timeseries from a 4D .nii file. I found
>> an example for -cifti-create-dense-timeseries that uses a .shape.gii file
>> as -roi-left input. I also found a corresponding shape.gii file in the hcp
>> preprocessed data folder called ${SUBJECTID}.L.roi.32k_fs_LR.shape.gii. My
>> question is: what is this file and how can I create it from my surface and
>> nii files?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Sebastian
>>
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