Hi Simon,

The HCP Structural Extended Preprocessed packages for each subject (available 
from the Download packages page with the Processing level filter set to 
Preprocessed) includes the FreeSurfer v5.3.0-HCP output directory created by 
the HCP Structural pipeline. These are intermediate files that are not in 
NIFTI/GIFTI/CIFTI format.

 

Best,

Jenn

 

Jennifer Elam, Ph.D.
Outreach Coordinator, Human Connectome Project
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Box 8108
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
314-362-9387
[email protected]
www.humanconnectome.org

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Baker
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 5:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Custom parcellation for HCP data

 

Thanks for your email Matt.

 

Do you happen to know the names of those packages?

 

Given that our custom parcellation is in the form of an annotation file (rather 
than a gifti file), can you suggest a way to get our custom parcellation from 
an atlas surface to a subject's volume using Connectome Workbench?

 

Alternatively, is there a way to generate a custom parcellation using 
Connectome Workbench?

 

Simon

 

 

On 12 November 2015 at 03:33, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote:

I think this might be way more complicated than is needed.  I believe there are 
structural extended packages that would allow you to run a FreeSurfer command 
without needing to replicate FreeSurfer files.  As for how to get a 
parcellation from an atlas surface to a subject’s volume, I could tell you how 
to do that using Connectome Workbench tools, file formats, and our atlas, but I 
don’t know the details for FreeSurfer.

 

Peace,

 

Matt.

 

From: Simon Baker <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 11:34 PM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Harms, Michael" <[email protected]>, Timothy Coalson <[email protected]>, Matt 
Glasser <[email protected]>


Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Custom parcellation for HCP data

 

Thanks for the pointers Michael, Tim, and Matt. We've tried a range of 
approaches but we're still having trouble creating the custom parcellation. 
Below describes the updated version of our pipeline. Although this version 
improves the spatial alignment between the custom parcellation and the T1w 
volume, the quality of the parcellation is still lacking compared to e.g. 
ribbon.nii.gz.

 

--

 

1. Create a high-resolution annotation (parcellation) by randomly parcellating 
the fsaverage surface into N regions of approximately equal volume.

 

2. Map the annotation from the source subject (fsaverage) to the target subject 
using mri_surf2surf.

 

mri_surf2surf --srcsubject fsaverage --hemi xh --sval-annot highres.annot 
--trgsubject ${SUBJECTID} --srcsurfreg sphere.reg --trgsurfreg 
/MNINonLinear/Native/${SUBJECTID}.X.sphere.native.surf.gii --tval 
xh.highres.annot

 

3. Obtain vertices and faces data from 
/MNINonLinear/Native/${SUBJECTID}.X.white.native.surf.gii

 

4. Using the vertices and faces data obtained in step 3 as inputs for the 
write_surf Matlab function, create the xh.white surface file.

 

5. Obtain thickness data from 
/MNINonLinear/Native/${SUBJECTID}.X.thickness.native.shape.gii

 

6. Using T1wImage = /T1w/T1w_acpc_dc_restore.nii.gz and T1wImageBrain = 
/T1w/T1w_acpc_dc_restore_brain.nii.gz, we replicate some of the steps found in 
HCP's FreeSurferPipeline.sh in order to generate /mri/orig.mgz. Specifically:

 

#Make Spline Interpolated Downsample to 1mm

Mean=`fslstats T1wImageBrain -M`

 

flirt -interp spline -in T1wImage -ref T1wImage -applyisoxfm 1 -out T1wImage_1mm

 

applywarp --rel --interp=spline -i T1wImage -r T1wImage_1mm 
--premat=/usr/local/fsl/etc/flirtsch/ident.mat -o T1wImage_1mm

 

applywarp --rel --interp=nn -i T1wImageBrain -r T1wImage_1mm 
--premat=/usr/local/fsl/etc/flirtsch/ident.mat -o T1wImageBrain_1mm

 

fslmaths T1wImage_1mm -div $Mean -mul 150 -abs T1wImage_1mm

 

mri_convert T1wImage_1mm /mri/orig/001.mgz

 

#Initial Recon-all Steps

recon-all -subjid ${SUBJECTID} -sd ${SUBJECTS_DIR} -motioncor -talairach 
-nuintensitycor -normalization

 

7. Convert the custom parcellation annotation into a custom parcellation volume 
using mri_label2vol, with /mri/orig.mgz serving as the output template volume.

 

mri_label2vol --annot xh.custom.annot --temp /mri/orig.mgz --identity --proj 
frac 0 1 .1 --subject ${SUBJECTID} --hemi xh --o xh_custom_vol.mgz

 

8. Resample and reslice the custom parcellation volume. 

 

mri_convert --resample_type nearest --reslice_like T1wImage xh_custom_vol.mgz 
xh_custom_vol.nii

 

9. Combine the resampled and resliced custom parcellation volume from each 
hemisphere to create a single custom parcellation volume (custom_vol.nii).

 

10. Find c_ras offset and generate matrix

 

MatrixX=$(mri_info --cras T1wImage | cut -d " " -f 1)

MatrixY=$(mri_info --cras T1wImage | cut -d " " -f 2)

MatrixZ=$(mri_info --cras T1wImage | cut -d " " -f 3)

echo "1 0 0 ""$MatrixX" > c_ras_xfm.mat

echo "0 1 0 ""$MatrixY" >> c_ras_xfm.mat

echo "0 0 1 ""$MatrixZ" >> c_ras_xfm.mat

echo "0 0 0 1" >> c_ras_xfm.mat

 

11. Invert the c_ras offset matrix

 

convert_xfm -omat c_ras_xfm_inv.mat -inverse c_ras_xfm.mat

 

12. Apply the inverted c_ras offset matrix to the custom parcellation volume 
(custom_vol.nii)

 

flirt -in custom_vol.nii -applyxfm -init c_ras_xfm_inv.mat -out 
parcellation.nii -paddingsize 0.0 -interp nearestneighbour -ref T1wImage

 

13. [Not sure why, but then we had to] Warp the output from the previous step 
in order to align the parcellation with T1wImage (i.e., 
/T1w/T1w_acpc_dc_restore.nii.gz).

 

applywarp --rel --interp=nn -i parcellation.nii -r T1wImage -w 
/MNINonLinear/xfms/standard2acpc_dc.nii.gz -o parcellation_native.nii

 

14. See attached screenshot2.jpeg showing /T1w/T1w_acpc_dc_restore, /T1w/ribbon 
(blue), and parcellation_native (yellow).

 

--

 

The alignment of parcellation_native is a bit off and it appears to be 
grainy/pixelated. Do you have any suggestions as to why this is the case?

 

Kind regards,

 

Simon Baker

Brain & Mental Health Laboratory

Institute of Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience

Monash University

 

 

On 20 October 2015 at 09:20, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote:

FreeSurfer might do it if you simply specify the correct extension, but if not, 
mris_convert will do the conversion.

 

Peace,

 

Matt.

 

From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Timothy Coalson 
<[email protected]>
Date: Monday, October 19, 2015 at 4:44 PM
To: "Harms, Michael" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Simon 
Baker <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Custom parcellation for HCP data

 

Additionally, if you generate a cortex-only parcellation, you shouldn't need to 
put it into a volume to use it with the HCP CIFTI data.  However, I'm not sure 
how to get freesurfer to write GIFTI label files, and unless you generate it on 
the fs_LR 32k mesh, you'll need to resample it (via registered sphere 
surfaces).  If you can get the label data into matlab, though, you can write it 
as .func.gii files, and use wb_command to turn it into label.gii, and then to 
.dlabel.nii for use with CIFTI data.  Some care may be needed to keep the right 
and left labels separate. 

 

Tim

 

 

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Harms, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:

 

Hi,

Did you see this recent thread on the list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/hcp-users%40humanconnectome.org/msg01910.html

 

cheers,

-MH

 

-- 

Michael Harms, Ph.D.

-----------------------------------------------------------

Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders

Washington University School of Medicine

Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134

660 South Euclid Ave. Tel: 314-747-6173

St. Louis, MO  63110 Email: [email protected]

 

From: Simon Baker <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015 8:16 PM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCP-Users] Custom parcellation for HCP data

 

Hi all,

 

We want to create a custom parcellation for use with the connectome project 
data. However, we have not been able to achieve accurate spatial alignment 
between the random parcellation volume and the T1w volume. Specifically, there 
appears to be an "offset," possibly due to a mismatch between the origin of 
these volumes. In the following we describe the relevant steps of our pipeline. 
Please suggest any changes that might help to resolve the issue.

 

1. Create a high-resolution annotation (parcellation) by randomly parcellating 
the fsaverage surface into N regions of approximately equal volume.

 

2. Map the annotation from the source subject (fsaverage) to the target subject 
using mri_surf2surf.

 

mri_surf2surf --srcsubject fsaverage --hemi lh --sval-annot highres.annot 
--trgsubject ${SUBJECTID} --srcsurfreg sphere.reg --trgsurfreg 
${SUBJECTS_DIR}/${SUBJECTID}/MNINonLinear/Native/${SUBJECTID}.L.sphere.native.surf.gii
 --tval lh.highres.annot

 

[repeat for rh]

 

3. Obtain vertices and faces data from 
${SUBJECTS_DIR}/${SUBJECTID}/MNINonLinear/Native/${SUBJECTID}.L.white.native.surf.gii

 

[repeat for rh]

 

4. Using the vertices and faces data obtained in step 3 as inputs for the 
write_surf Matlab function, create the lh.white surface file.

 

[repeat for rh]

 

5. Obtain thickness data from 
${SUBJECTS_DIR}/${SUBJECTID}/MNINonLinear/Native/${SUBJECTID}.L.thickness.native.shape.gii

 

[repeat for rh]

 

6. Convert the annotation into a volume using mri_label2vol.

 

mri_label2vol --annot lh.highres.annot --temp 
${SUBJECTS_DIR}/${SUBJECTID}/T1w/T1w_acpc_dc_restore.nii.gz --identity --proj 
frac 0 1 .1 --subject ${SUBJECTID} --hemi lh --o vol_lh.nii

 

[repeat for rh]

 

7. Configure the volume (remove unwanted ROIs).

 

[repeat for rh]

 

8. Combine the configured volumes from each hemisphere to create the random 
parcellation volume.

 

9. Overlay the random parcellation volume on the template volume.

 

See attached screenshot.jpeg showing the misalignment between the random 
parcellation volume and the template volume.

 

Kind regards,

 

Simon Baker

Brain & Mental Health Laboratory

Institute of Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience

Monash University

 

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