Re: [caret-users] draw borders for spherical registration - Expediting the process

2007-07-06 Thread David Vanessen
Hi Julia, plus others interested in registering surfaces (FreeSurfer- as well as SureFit-generated) to the PALS human atlas, John and Donna have already provided useful technical comments that have hopefully addressed the specific questions you raised. This email provides a heads-up on two

Re: [caret-users] Displaying different sets of activations without RGB

2007-04-25 Thread David Vanessen
John, It sounds like your best bet would be to use border contours to outline the 2nd and 3rd activations. You can do this using Surface: Region of Interest Operations: Operate on Selected Nodes: Operation: Create Borders Around Clusters. Start by selecting the nodes of interest for the

Re: [caret-users] Question: Setting resolution for main-window image capture in CARET?

2007-03-26 Thread David Vanessen
Katrin, You can also improve resolution by increasing the size of the main Caret window. In photoshop you can then adjust the dpi. David VE On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:42 AM, John Harwell wrote: Hi, We tell the software that writes the image to write the image in the highest quality possible

Re: [caret-users] Macaque Neuroanatomy

2007-03-22 Thread David Vanessen
Hamied, The best source I know of for your questions is the CoCoMac database developed by Rolf Kotter and colleagues. http://cocomac.org/home.htm You have to get an account, but once you do, you can search for connections of any area of interest and then click on the area abbreviation to

Re: [caret-users] Calcarine Sulcus and Border Drawing

2007-03-22 Thread David Vanessen
Rishi, A couple of points to add to Donna's. 1) The 'Core 6' landmarks refer specifically to human cortex, not the macaque. The calcarine sulcus has a rather different configuration in the macaque (especially in posterior regions). 2) If your objective is to make a calcarine cut to reduce

Re: [caret-users] About Monkey to Human Deformation

2007-03-10 Thread David Vanessen
Reza, On Mar 10, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Reza Rajimehr wrote: Dear caret-users, David Van Essen suggested me to use the following .deform_map file for deformation of macaque F99 to Human PALS: RegF99toPALS_23-LDMK-VE_Macaque.F99UA1.RIGHT.Register-with-PALS_23- LDMK-VE.73730.spec.deform_map Once y

Re: [caret-users] Macaque-Human Deformation and Registration

2007-02-16 Thread David Vanessen
Reza, On Feb 16, 2007, at 3:48 AM, Reza Rajimehr wrote: We have done an fMRI experiment in macaques and humans. The anatomicals of macaques and humans have been fully reconstructed in FreeSurfer. The functionals have been also analyzed in FreeSurfer/FS-FAST. We have successfully imported som

Re: [caret-users] using caret for a meta-analysis

2007-01-07 Thread David Vanessen
Leon, I can replicate and explain your observations in the following way: 1) Load a foci file that contains data in multiple stereotaxic spaces, and view the foci with the FLIRT average fiducial surface in the main window.. At this stage, each focus will be in its original space, even tho

Re: [caret-users] using caret for a meta-analysis

2006-12-09 Thread David Vanessen
Leon, On Dec 9, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Leon Deouell wrote: Thanks again for your help. I am making nice progress. My questions now are: 1. Is it possible to see the foci on volume slices? It seems I can only see them on surface files. Yes - Use File: Open Data File: Open Foci File - Volumes (*

Re: [caret-users] distance from a node

2006-11-30 Thread David Vanessen
Mateus, First, it is important to clarify whether your request pertains to nodes (as stated) or to foci. In Caret terminology, nodes refers specifically to the points that make up a surface and have locations specified within a coordinate file. Foci refers to stereotaxically identified

Re: [caret-users] .5mm/.35mm surface reconstructions and deformation to new 73730 node ATLASES

2006-11-13 Thread David Vanessen
John, On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:26 AM, John Arsenault wrote: Hello, Firstly I found that I got a better segmentation with the .35mm isotropic voxels relative to the same volume resampled to .5mm isotropic. Good to know. Secondly I am having a bit of trouble registering an individual hemisph

Re: [caret-users] tutorial 5.2.2 mapping individual foci to the PALS atlas surface

2006-11-06 Thread David Vanessen
Dear Dr. Labus, To begin on a general note, we are very keen to promote exactly what you're doing - putting stereotaxic-coordinate data (foci) into Caret (and as a next step into SumsDB for public access). Hence, we want to make sure that this tutorial actually works for investigators like

Re: [caret-users] Voxel Size for Macaque Anatomicals

2006-11-02 Thread David Vanessen
John, On Nov 2, 2006, at 9:38 AM, John Arsenault wrote: Hello, I have an anatomical image taken at .35mm isotropic. For some reason I was under the impression that one should resample there data to . 5mm for registration with the F99 surface. Is this true or is this only for data of res

Re: [caret-users] - binary to text

2006-10-28 Thread David Vanessen
Graham, I'll let John and/or Donna comment next week on the brainfish questions you raise. This algorithm was originally developed in Ted DeYoe's lab, and I'm not aware that it has been used extensively by others since incorporation into Caret. Regarding conversion of metric files to tex

Re: [caret-users] caret docs; Display Control especially

2006-10-26 Thread David Vanessen
Graham, On Oct 26, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Graham Wideman wrote: . Good! The issue of whether the average fiducial surface intersects various blobs of activation is an important one. [...] Right -- that all sounds good. What I'm not yet convinced about intuitively is that the average surf

Re: [caret-users] Diagrams of Lateral and Medial Views of Van Essen Parcellation Scheme

2006-10-26 Thread David Vanessen
Shawn,On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Shawn Mikula wrote:thanks Donna, but I was looking for something closer to the attached images.Shawnhttp://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/directory.do?id=6585200&dir_name=CARET_TUTORIAL_SEPT-06Click the brain icon next to Macaque.F99.RIGHT.STANDARD-SCENES.73730.specSelect

Re: [caret-users] caret docs; Display Control especially

2006-10-26 Thread David Vanessen
Graham, On Oct 26, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Graham Wideman wrote: Donna: > All the PALS_B12 surfaces are mid-cortical thickness surfaces. Hmmm, this will send us on a closer inspection of the surfaces in conjunction with volumes. I think we've been somewhat disoriented at looking at an average

[caret-users] Caret demo at SfN (INCF booth, # 2728) - Tuesday a.m., October 17

2006-10-10 Thread David Vanessen
To current and prospective Caret users, John Harwell and I will be giving a demonstration of Caret 5.5, SumsDB, and WebCaret at the INCF neuroinformatics booth (# 2728) on Tuesday, October 17th (9:30 - 12:30). If you are interested and have a moment, please stop by. If you know of colleag

Re: [caret-users] ROIs

2006-09-20 Thread David Vanessen
Jason, Donna's suggestions are worth following, though I must admit that I have not personally used the Draw Borders, type Closed, Assign Voxels to Within Closed Border option, so I don't know quite how it will behave for your purposes. Another option to consider is to use the Surface: RO

Re: [caret-users] left Hemisphere landmarks for registration with F99

2006-09-20 Thread David Vanessen
John (et al.), I guess Donna wins a six-pack, because I do indeed have a response. 1) First, some general comments. Your questions come at a propitious time. We are just completing a major revamping of the macaque F99 atlas along with many other changes to the macaque and human (PALS) atla

Re: [caret-users] Deforming an individual macaque brain to the F99 template

2006-08-24 Thread David Vanessen
John, 1) We had a problem last spring in which the then-current version of Caret5 was hanging when I tried to run the flat deformation process. The problem you have encountered may well be different, but I would nonetheless suggest that you try downloading the latest version of Caret an

Re: [caret-users] Question about painting a ROI

2006-07-20 Thread David Vanessen
David, John's suggestion should work (I think). Another option that will work, albeit indirectly, is to generate an 'RGBpaint' file by way of a metric file as an intermediary. Use the surface: ROI option to select nodes in one of your paint ROI's. Then use ROI: Operation: Assign metric

Re: [caret-users] Re: Foci files in 2D

2006-06-10 Thread David Vanessen
Terry, I've experienced this problem before and found the following work- around: Translate the flat map so that its coordinates are entirely positive (if you want to save right hemisphere foci) or entirely negative (if you want to save left hemisphere foci). Then project the foci to the