[Freesurfer] How to change the work path of freesurfer

2012-02-27 Thread bowang21
Dear Nick Schmansky I am a beginner of freesurfer,and now I'm in trouble. I have install the VirtualBox to run freesurfer,but the disk space is not enough (11.0G).So I need to mount a disk to the system. And now I want to know how to change the working path of freesurfer such as

Re: [Freesurfer] How to change the work path of freesurfer

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi BoBO, use the setenv command to change/set the SUBJECTS_DIR or FREESURFER_HOME. If that command does not mean anything to you, then I think there is a linux primer on our web site. doug bowan...@mail.ustc.edu.cn wrote: Dear Nick Schmansky I am a beginner of freesurfer,and now I'm in

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec and Intracranial volume correction - error message

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Mahinda, try demeaning and normalizing the ICV values (ie, subtract the mean and divide by the stddev). doug Mahinda Yogarajah wrote: Dear Experts, I am trying to carry out a simple 2 group (conrol and patient) analysis with ICV as nuisance factor, and thickness as the dependent

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about contrast matrix

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Lin, look at this page http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Fsgdf2G2V and let me know if you still have questions doug 林鄞 wrote: Dear all I have a question about the design of matrix. I have one group of two levels ( patient and control) and two continous variables (age and weight).

[Freesurfer] Choosing a Contrast

2012-02-27 Thread Allie Rosen
Hi All, I am trying to figure out the contrasts to use for a study. I am comparing age matched patients and controls (all female). The FSGD file has 4 columns, but I'm not sure how to make an appropriate contrast matrix. I can't seem to find an applicable example on the wiki. Any guidance would

Re: [Freesurfer] Choosing a Contrast

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Allison, have you looked at http://www.freesurfer.net/fswiki/PairedAnalysis ? doug Allie Rosen wrote: Hi All, I am trying to figure out the contrasts to use for a study. I am comparing age matched patients and controls (all female). The FSGD file has 4 columns, but I'm not sure how to

[Freesurfer] FSL_niftii

2012-02-27 Thread Gabor Perlaki
Dear all, I've some fsl niftii MPRAGE images converted by MRIConverter. They look fine in fslview and I can open them by freesurfer as well (tkmedit -f *.nii.gz) , but when I compare the images between fslview and tkmedit they look slightly different. It seems that the orientation is the same in

Re: [Freesurfer] How to change the work path of freesurfer

2012-02-27 Thread Allison Player
It works like this: setenv SUBJECTS_DIR /path/to/your/data setenv FREESURFER_HOME /path/to/freesurfer The primer Doug is referring to can be found on this page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/April2012CourseSchedule The Unix slides, online practice, and Processing your own

Re: [Freesurfer] Choosing a Contrast

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
what do you want to test? doug Allie Rosen wrote: Hi Doug, I have. I think that I have two groups (patients/controls) with one covariate (age), so the following is my situation: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Fsgdf2G1V Thank you again, Allison On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:31

Re: [Freesurfer] FSL_niftii

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
tkmedit will re-align to scanner space. The pixel data are not affected. tkmedit is not used to process any data, only to view it, so it won't affect stats. dougt Gabor Perlaki wrote: Dear all, I've some fsl niftii MPRAGE images converted by MRIConverter. They look fine in fslview and I

Re: [Freesurfer] ?h.dpial.ribbon.mgz not found

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Octavian, recon-all does not use --save_distance by default. You can have it add --save_distance to the mris_volmask command line using the expert options. Run recon-all with -help to get more info. doug octavian lie wrote: Dear all, to follow up on my prior message below, I must say that

Re: [Freesurfer] last index missing when using mri_label2vol

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
yes, this is a know issue. It has been fixed for the next version, but you can upload a fixed linux program from ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/flat/greve/mri_label2vol copy this to $FREESURFER_HOME/bin doug David Grayson wrote: Hi, I am noticing that when I use

[Freesurfer] Bus error in mri_ca_normalize

2012-02-27 Thread Jürgen Hänggi
Dear FS experts I am trying to produce surface models with a higher resolution than 1x1x1mm from T1-w. images acquired on a 7T scanner (0.75x0.75x0.75 mm). I have run the following commands so far: recon-all -autorecon1 -cm -noskullstrip -s subject cd subject/mri mri_convert -cs 1 nu.mgz

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert

2012-02-27 Thread Jimmy Ghaziri
Could you explain why please ? I'm following this : http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsAnat-to-NativeAnat On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 18:51, Douglas N Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote: Oh, the problem may be in your label2vol cmd. Try this one mri_label2vol --seg

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Sorry, I think you did have the right command originally. If everything looks good in tkmedit but bad in fslview, then I think you'll need to talk to the FSL people (or at least tell us exactly what FSL commands you are running on the data). doug Jimmy Ghaziri wrote: Could you explain why

Re: [Freesurfer] treatment of missing values in mri_glmfit

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Kristine, unfortunately we're not set up for that. Sorry. doug Kristine Beate Walhovd wrote: Hi, we´re running FS 5.1 and have a data set with a lot of missing values. There are different subsets of persons missing different values of interest, and we´re running analyses on concat

Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with covariates in design for surface based analysis

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas N Greve
Just to clarify, you can do this analysis in FS, but not in QDEC. You'll have to create an FSGD file. Do a search for FSGD on our wiki to get examples that you can generalize from. doug MCLAREN, Donald wrote: Charlotte, There is no difference, from a statistical perspective, of nuisance

Re: [Freesurfer] treatment of missing values in mri_glmfit

2012-02-27 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Kristine/Doug, Are you missing Dependent Variable values or Independent Variable Values? If you are missing some IV values, there are two potential solutions: (1) Drop the subject; (2) Impute the value of that subject given other variables and relationships of those variables and the variable

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula preproc failure

2012-02-27 Thread ayendiki
Hi Martijn, Which pathway does it fail on? Is the pathology of your subject affecting the structures in the aparc+aseg that surround that pathway? a.y Dear all, I'm running Tracula on a brain with some pathology. During the preproc phase it fails with the following error: INFO: Rejected

[Freesurfer] Error on Step 3 of longitudinally process

2012-02-27 Thread Brain Apprentice
Hi, I was wondering if I am doing something wrong when doing step 3 of the longitudinally process. The error I get is: ERROR: Template/base ID cannot be the same as a time point ID (in /shared/subjects/subjects/a-aut-v510/10022/base-tps) Here is the environment:

[Freesurfer] mri_binarize VS mri_extract_label

2012-02-27 Thread Palzes, Vanessa
Could someone please explain to me the difference between mri_binarize and mri_extract_label? I had been using mri_extract_label to create ROI masks of cerebral white matter (2 and 41). I recently became aware that this would give me a label with 0 and 128. I tried mri_binarize (with the same

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec and Intracranial volume correction - error message

2012-02-27 Thread Mahinda Yogarajah
Hi Doug, Thanks for the response. I have had a read about demeaning on the forum. I had a couple of questions: 1) If I want to include age as well as ICV as nuisance variables in a DODS analysis comparing thickness between patients and controls, should I demean (+ ? normalise) the age as well

[Freesurfer] In Qdec, what does the 'area' mean within 'Measure' menu in 'Design' tab

2012-02-27 Thread ZhiLiangLong
Hi freesurfer experts: i'm using qdec to perform statistical analysis in Freesurfer 5.0.0, within 'Measure' menu in 'Design' tab, the default is 'thickness', however, there are other measurements such as 'area' and 'area.pial'. the latter seems meaning area in pial surface. what does

Re: [Freesurfer] In Qdec, what does the 'area' mean within 'Measure' menu in 'Design' tab

2012-02-27 Thread Douglas Greve
That is the area of the white surface. But don't use this unless you have updated to the new version of mris_preproc. doug On 2/27/12 8:15 PM, ZhiLiangLong wrote: Hi freesurfer experts: i'm using qdec to perform statistical analysis in Freesurfer 5.0.0, within 'Measure' menu in