Hi,

I've been trying to export borders from subregions of the sensorimotor strip 
(suppl. Figure 8 of Glasser et al. 2016) to freesurfer annotation files (for 
visualisation in pySurfer).

Following the instructions in the FAQ 
(https://wiki.humanconnectome.org/display/PublicData/HCP+Users+FAQ#HCPUsersFAQ-9.HowdoImapdatabetweenFreeSurferandHCP?)
 I successfully translated the area labels (Figure 3, Glasser et al.) into 
corresponding freesurfer .annot-files (using mris-convert in the last step, as 
suggested here: 
https://figshare.com/articles/HCP-MMP1_0_projected_on_fsaverage/3498446/2).

My idea was to simply follow the same steps with the motor subregion borders by 
first transforming the borders to labels. I tried the following process:

wb_command -border-to-rois $oldsphere $border $outdir/tmp.func.gii

wb_command -border-export-color-table $border $outdir/label_list.txt

wb_command -metric-label-import $outdir/tmp.func.gii $outdir/label_list.txt 
$outdir/tmp.label.gii -discard-others

I then transformed the label file to freesurfer164 as I did with the other 
labels and converted the result to .annot with mris-convert. Unfortunately, the 
resulting annotation, after loading into tksurfer, shows nothing. Loading the 
annotation file with PySurfer returns the appropriate number of named labels, 
but these all contain the full set of vertices (with value=1). 

Roaming through the gifty-files a bit I noticed that the generated 
tmp.label.gii has each label as individual data column which is different from 
the set of full cortex labels which are defined as a single integer column. I 
guess that mris_convert does not process this structure properly. Is there a 
way to convert the multi-column label-gifty to the standard single-column 
label-gifty? Or is there a different way of exporting the borders to an 
appropriate freesurfer .annot-file?


Thanks for your help!

Sebastian Bitzer
Chair of Neuroimaging
TU Dresden
http://sbitzer.eu/
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