[Freesurfer] Research Coordinator Job: Northwestern Univ. Alzheimer's Disease Center (Chicago, IL)

2014-03-20 Thread Emily Rogalski
Research Coordinator job available at Northwestern University's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, IL. The research assistant will be responsible for analysis of neuroimaging datasets, in order to contribute to neuroscientific studies of normal aging and pathological

Re: [Freesurfer] Extracting Mean Diffusivity values

2014-03-20 Thread Rotem Saar
Hi Doug, Thanks you for directing me to my mistake in step 3 (see below new cmd line in step 3). What I did is the following - 1) dt_recon --i /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/Anatomy0981/DTI/I160.dcm --s Anatomy0981 --o /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/Anatomy0981/DTI --b

Re: [Freesurfer] expert options command

2014-03-20 Thread Harms, Michael
You must have already run this subject once with an expert-options file? Once you've already run recon-all once on a subject with an expert-options file, you don't include it again in future invocations of recon-all. The expert options that you've previously used will automatically get used

Re: [Freesurfer] what is inflating to sphere rms error?

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
it's just a measure of how far each point is from the sphere that we use to guide some of the spherical transformation. It is a perfectly normal part of recon-all cheers Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, chenchunhuichina wrote: Dear Freesurfers,   I am new to freesurfer and I am afraid of doing

Re: [Freesurfer] expert options command

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Michael I believe it is telling you that once the file expert.opts exists in the scripts dir of a subject it will be used by default, and you don't need to specify it on the command line. cheers Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Michael Green wrote: I've been calling up an expert options file

Re: [Freesurfer] expert options command

2014-03-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
try it like this recon-all -s 002 -expert 002/scripts/expert.opts -xopts-overwrite On 03/20/2014 12:30 AM, Michael Green wrote: I've been calling up an expert options file which contains the text mri_normalize -gentle but I'm having trouble executing it with this command: recon-all -s 002

[Freesurfer] Sample bert information

2014-03-20 Thread Saurabh Thakur
Hello Freesurfer Expert, Can you share the freesurfer sample named *bert* information such as age,M/F and other details. Thanks in advance, cheers Saurabh Thakur, ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Re: [Freesurfer] Sample bert information

2014-03-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
why do you need to know this? bert, and the rest of the distributed data, are for tutorial purposes only. doug On 03/20/2014 09:57 AM, Saurabh Thakur wrote: Hello Freesurfer Expert, Can you share the freesurfer sample named *bert* information such as age,M/F and other details.

Re: [Freesurfer] combine FEAT data with inflated ANATOMY to measure distances

2014-03-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
1) Use the feat2surf script 2) I have not used mris_pmake myself. I'm guessing it will *work* on the sphere in that it will return a path, but the distances between vertices have no relationship to anatomy. It might fail on a flat map because it is a patch. doug On 03/20/2014 10:43 AM,

[Freesurfer] combine FEAT data with inflated ANATOMY to measure distances

2014-03-20 Thread Milde, Christopher
Dear Surfers, At moment I'm dealing with a huge dataset, preprocessed (with and without smoothing) and statistically analyzed in FSL FEAT. I used the reg-feat2anat to project functional EPI on inflated MPRAGE (recon-all). Because I'm interested in measuring Euclidian distances between peak

[Freesurfer] mri_convert .tar.gz files of dicoms?

2014-03-20 Thread Nate Vack
Hi, I'm testing mri_convert for our dicom conversion needs; one thing that would be fantastic is to be able to feed it a .tar.gz (or .zip) containing a dicom series we'd like to convert. Is there a way to do that? Alternately, if there were a way to make it use stdin, I could just pipe the

Re: [Freesurfer] brain.mgz image error

2014-03-20 Thread markus . gschwind
Hi, Can you send us a screenshot of the original MRI before skull stripping? Thanks! Markus On 20 mars 2014, at 14:46, Saurabh Thakur srbht...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Freesurfer expert , I am sending you the image of brain.mgz screen-shot. Is the area highlighted is part of cortex or it

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit contrast

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
what kind of points? Almost certainly yes, but it will also be interesting debugging information for us to see whether it works or not On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Borzello, Mia wrote: I haven't checked that yet- would i still be able to pick points in freeview?

Re: [Freesurfer] brain.mgz image error

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Saurabh those are eye sockets not brain. If the surfaces don't include them then don't worry about them. cheers Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Saurabh Thakur wrote: Hello Freesurfer expert , I am sending you the image of brain.mgz screen-shot. Is the area highlighted is part of cortex or

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit contrast

2014-03-20 Thread Borzello, Mia
I haven't checked that yet- would i still be able to pick points in freeview? From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of Bruce Fischl [fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:16

Re: [Freesurfer] Extracting Mean Diffusivity values

2014-03-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
I would use step 3 for the wmparc instead of vol2vol. you need both --seg and --seg-erode --seg-erode 1 --seg /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/Anatomy0981/mri/wmparc2diff.mgz doug On 03/20/2014 04:43 AM, Rotem Saar wrote: Hi Doug, Thanks you for directing me to my mistake in step 3 (see

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert .tar.gz files of dicoms?

2014-03-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
no, sorry doug On 03/20/2014 11:28 AM, Nate Vack wrote: Hi, I'm testing mri_convert for our dicom conversion needs; one thing that would be fantastic is to be able to feed it a .tar.gz (or .zip) containing a dicom series we'd like to convert. Is there a way to do that? Alternately, if

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert .tar.gz files of dicoms?

2014-03-20 Thread Nate Vack
Thanks! If you're ever looking for a feature request, then, that's mine :) Best, -Nate On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Douglas N Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: no, sorry doug On 03/20/2014 11:28 AM, Nate Vack wrote: Hi, I'm testing mri_convert for our dicom conversion needs; one

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit contrast

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
I see. Try it in freeview then Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Borzello, Mia wrote: picking the electrode points for an intracranial patient. I can usually do it pretty easily in tkmedit, but I'm just getting an odd contrast with this CT. From:

Re: [Freesurfer] Sample bert information

2014-03-20 Thread Saurabh Thakur
Just to get some comparative result with subject which we have. At least this can be made available for public domain. cheers Saurabh Thakur, On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Douglas N Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote: why do you need to know this? bert, and the rest of the

[Freesurfer] Converting volume from fsaverage to subject space

2014-03-20 Thread Omar Singleton
Hello Freesurfers, I am interested in taking a volume file that is in fsaverage MNI305 space and converting this volume to each subject's volume. How can this be done? Thanks! Best, Omar ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit contrast

2014-03-20 Thread Borzello, Mia
picking the electrode points for an intracranial patient. I can usually do it pretty easily in tkmedit, but I'm just getting an odd contrast with this CT. From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of

Re: [Freesurfer] Calculating Total White Matter

2014-03-20 Thread Adeyemi, Elizabeth (NIH/NIMH) [C]
Just to clarify a bit further, in the asegstats2table there are values given for TotalGrayVol. I am assuming this includes both subcortical and cortical measures for GM along with cerebellar values, etc. Likewise, I am looking for TotalWhiteVol or a way of calculating both cortical and

Re: [Freesurfer] Converting volume from fsaverage to subject space

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
mri_vol2vol should do the trick using the inverse (I think) of the mri/transforms/talairach.xfm file. Doug can confirm cheers Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Omar Singleton wrote: Hello Freesurfers, I am interested in taking a volume file that is in fsaverage MNI305 space and converting this

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon process

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Amy if you run it with at the end of the line, it shouldn't end when you close the terminal window. Of course it will stop if the computer goes to sleep though. To rerun a recon that has partially finished, try using the -make all directive on the recon-all command line instead of any

[Freesurfer] Overinclusion of brain volume during segmentation - Question

2014-03-20 Thread Christina Chen
Hi! If the cortical surface outlines are fine, but there is an overinclusion of brain volume during segmentation, how should I fix this? Can we calculate brain volume based on the cortical surface outlines -- if so, how? Thanks! Christina ___

Re: [Freesurfer] Overinclusion of brain volume during segmentation - Question

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Christina if the aseg is incorrect but the surfaces are right, then you don't need to worry about it. This is the reason we typically use the surfaces instead of the aseg for things like brain volume/cortex modeling. cheers Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Christina Chen wrote: Hi! If the

[Freesurfer] Anonymizing Siemens DICOM files

2014-03-20 Thread Caspar M. Schwiedrzik
Hi Freesurfer Experts, we are looking for a good way to remove subject names and dates of birth from Siemens DICOM headers. Is there something implemented in Freesurfer? Matlab's Image Processing Toolbox has a function to anonymize DICOM files (

Re: [Freesurfer] Anonymizing Siemens DICOM files

2014-03-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
no, sorry doug On 03/20/2014 05:29 PM, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote: Hi Freesurfer Experts, we are looking for a good way to remove subject names and dates of birth from Siemens DICOM headers. Is there something implemented in Freesurfer? Matlab's Image Processing Toolbox has a function to

Re: [Freesurfer] Overinclusion of brain volume during segmentation - Question

2014-03-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
cortical stats reported by asegstats2table use the surfaces, not the cortical segmentation in aseg.mgz doug On 03/20/2014 05:29 PM, Christina Chen wrote: Thanks a lot!! I have a follow up question: We use the command asegstats2table to output the subcortical volumes (and other whole

Re: [Freesurfer] Anonymizing Siemens DICOM files

2014-03-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
I think there was an anonymization tool developed through the BIRN and distributed by Ron Kikinis' group at the BWH. I'll cc Karl Helmer who probably knows cheers Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Douglas N Greve wrote: no, sorry doug On 03/20/2014 05:29 PM, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote: Hi

Re: [Freesurfer] Anonymizing Siemens DICOM files

2014-03-20 Thread Harms, Michael
Hi Caspar, I can't address your question regarding a specific tool, but wanted to mention a note of caution. You need to make sure that you scrub any identifying info from Siemen's custom DICOM fields (not just the obvious public DICOM fields). The challenge of doing that is why the safest

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert .tar.gz files of dicoms?

2014-03-20 Thread Nate Vack
Also, for what it's worth, here's a little script that wraps this up: https://gist.github.com/njvack/9674025 Best, -Nate On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu wrote: Thanks! If you're ever looking for a feature request, then, that's mine :) Best, -Nate On Thu, Mar

Re: [Freesurfer] Overinclusion of brain volume during segmentation - Question

2014-03-20 Thread Christina Chen
Thanks a lot!! I have a follow up question: We use the command asegstats2table to output the subcortical volumes (and other whole brain volumes) to table. If the aseg is incorrect, can we still believe those values? Thanks, Christina On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Bruce Fischl

[Freesurfer] LME advice

2014-03-20 Thread Eric Cunningham
Hello Freesurfer experts, I am getting some unusual results with the lme pipeline, and I would appreciate help with identifying the most likely step in which the problem may have originated. Running lme_fit_FS.m on a single vertex, followed by lme_F on the output of that (stats) yields a p-value

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert .tar.gz files of dicoms?

2014-03-20 Thread Chris Watson
FYI, you can also get the first file like this: first_file=$(tar ztf ${in_file} | head -1) It will be much faster than 'find'. On 03/20/2014 05:18 PM, Nate Vack wrote: Also, for what it's worth, here's a little script that wraps this up: https://gist.github.com/njvack/9674025 Best, -Nate

Re: [Freesurfer] Converting volume from fsaverage to subject space

2014-03-20 Thread Omar Singleton
OK, so I can use the following command to go from MNI305 to subject space? mri_vol2vol --mov AL15/mri.2mm/orig.mgz --targ lh.AItou_fs_2mm.nii.gz --reg AL15/mri/transforms/talairach.xfm --invertmtx --inv --o lh.aitou.ac15.2mm.nii.gz I ran that command and got this error: regio_read_register():

Re: [Freesurfer] LME advice

2014-03-20 Thread jorge luis
Hi Eric   I don’t see any fundamental problem with this analysis. It looks like a regular lme computation. The p-value is essentially zero (to the extent of numeric precision). Even under the null hypothesis p-values distribute uniform(0,1). When signal is present in the data the distribution of