Re: [Freesurfer] FW: Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
can you upload your glmdir to our filedrop (see end of email) doug On 03/10/2015 02:13 PM, Wolthusen, Rick Peter Fritz wrote: Hi FS Community, I emailed with Doug a week ago with regards to limiting the results of a PASL Regression analysis to subcortical areas only in the tal output file

[Freesurfer] segmentation of the thalamus?

2015-03-12 Thread Baran, Bengi
Dear FreeSurfer developers and users, I’m wondering if any of you worked on further segmentation of the thalamus into thalamic nuclei or e.g. dorsal vs. medial thalamus. Thanks, Bengi Bengi Baran, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Harvard Medical School

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
Sorry, I don't have time to deconstruct that script. Can you simplify it for me? On 03/11/2015 03:32 PM, Wolthusen, Rick Peter Fritz wrote: This is the script I am using to create cbf.talaraich.mgz (attached). Thanks, Rick From:

[Freesurfer] FW: Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Wolthusen, Rick Peter Fritz
Hi FS Community, I emailed with Doug a week ago with regards to limiting the results of a PASL Regression analysis to subcortical areas only in the tal output file (see below). I redid the analysis from scratch adding the flag --mask $SUBJECTS_DIR/fsaverage/mri.2mm/brainmask.mgz and after

Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with Longitudinal QDEC file and mris_preproc

2015-03-12 Thread Jennifer Legault
Hi Martin, Thank you for your help and clarifications. I did run the *_to_table commands and now my LME analyses are running smoothly. Best, Jennifer Legault On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Martin Reuter mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Jennifer, if you are interested in volumes from

Re: [Freesurfer] aparc superior occipital lobe labeled as superior parietal

2015-03-12 Thread Bruce Fischl
From Rahul Desikan: -- Forwarded message -- From: Rahul Desikan rahuldesi...@gmail.com To: paulo.ba...@usp.br, freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Cc:  Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:42:31 -0700 Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] aparc superior occipital lobe labeled as superior parietal (fwd)

[Freesurfer] newbie questions: transform RAS vectors to talaraich vectors and view

2015-03-12 Thread Krieger, Donald N.
Dear List, I have sets of vectors in RAS coordinates from many volunteers. I want to transform them into coordinates for a standard volume. (1) I presume the standard volume that makes sense to use is orig.mgz in $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects/fsaverage/mri. Please confirm. (2)I presume

[Freesurfer] Annualised percentage change within linear mixed models

2015-03-12 Thread Nandita Vijayakumar
Hi FreeSurfer team, I was wondering if it is possible to use a measure of annualised percentage change instead of raw thickness within the FreeSurfer toolbox for Matlab (i.e. when running linear mixed models)? Thanks for your help, Nandi ___

Re: [Freesurfer] GLM analysis on CBF maps

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas Greve
For the intercept, you are testing for a difference in the mean CBF between the groups regressing out the effects of gender and age. For the slope, you are testing for an interaction between group and age regressing out the effects of gender. doug On 3/12/15 1:30 PM, Matthieu Vanhoutte

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas Greve
Yes, that probably is the reason. doug On 3/12/15 4:31 PM, Wolthusen, Rick Peter Fritz wrote: To be honest, I checked the between subject alignment and it looked pretty good. None of my subjects was way out of alignment. However, since we cannot fit the whole brain in the slice during

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
If the registration looks ok, then that is all that counts. However, I'm a bit sceptical that the reg looks ok but the mincost is that much different than the others. You should double check that the ASL is properly matched with the corresponding anatomical (ie, it is not two different

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Wolthusen, Rick Peter Fritz
Hi Doug et al., I indeed found 3 subjects, whose registration looked ok when I eyeballed them with the tkregister 2 command, with values of .9 and higher (all the other subjects had values between .44 and .61). Do you recommend to redo the analysis without them or to run the first level

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula: missing or incomplete tracts

2015-03-12 Thread Versace, Amelia
Dear Anastasia, I was wondering if there is a way to automatically (in command line) derive the FA/V1 vector image. fslview FA.nii.gz V1.nii.gz allows to load the FA and V1 image, but then manual section of the (lines) is needed. freeview -dti V1 FA does it too (with different

Re: [Freesurfer] newbie questions: transform RAS vectors to talaraich vectors and view

2015-03-12 Thread Krieger, Donald N.
Thanks for getting back so quickly and for the clear answers. I was able to get the axial slices out by using mri_convert --split to create a .nii file. ImageJ could read that in and reslice it. Thanks again. Don   Don Krieger, Ph.D. Department of Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh

Re: [Freesurfer] Help with optseq2

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
The psdwin controls the window over which HRF overlap correction needs to be done. This is usually something like 0-22 sec, enough time for the HRF to return to baseline. If you want to set the minimum/maximum ITI, then use --tnullmin and --tnullmax doug On 03/11/2015 08:08 PM, Michael T

Re: [Freesurfer] GLM analysis on CBF maps

2015-03-12 Thread Matthieu Vanhoutte
Hello, I have run GLM group analyses with Freesurfer tools according DODS model, with six classes ((Male,Female) ; (Control,Left,Right)) and one age variable : *Class MaleControlClass MaleLeftClass MaleRightClass FemaleControlClass FemaleLeftClass FemaleRightVariables Age * I wanted to

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Wolthusen, Rick Peter Fritz
To be honest, I checked the between subject alignment and it looked pretty good. None of my subjects was way out of alignment. However, since we cannot fit the whole brain in the slice during scanning, we are always cutting of the top of the brain, sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on

Re: [Freesurfer] newbie questions: transform RAS vectors to talaraich vectors and view

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 03/12/2015 09:54 AM, Krieger, Donald N. wrote: Dear List, I have sets of vectors in RAS coordinates from many volunteers. I want to transform them into coordinates for a standard volume. (1) I presume the standard volume that makes sense to use is orig.mgz in

Re: [Freesurfer] follow up and double check: transform RAS vectors to talaraich

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
what do you want us to check? On 03/12/2015 03:27 PM, Krieger, Donald N. wrote: Dear List, I’ve done a couple of spot checks which appear to work but want to double check with you. Attached are 5 axial cuts from fsaverage’s orig.mgz 5 mm apart. The “white” surface vectors are shown in

Re: [Freesurfer] follow up and double check: transform RAS vectors to talaraich

2015-03-12 Thread Krieger, Donald N.
Do the results in the attached images make sense? Does it make sense that the transformation was obtained: mri_info --vox2ras-fls ? Regards,   Don   Don Krieger, Ph.D. Department of Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh -Original Message- From:

Re: [Freesurfer] follow up and double check: transform RAS vectors to talaraich

2015-03-12 Thread Krieger, Donald N.
I forget to include that the transform I used was obtained: mri_info aseg.mgz -vox2ras-fsl Regards, Don [Signature0001] Don Krieger, Ph.D. Department of Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu]

Re: [Freesurfer] follow up and double check: transform RAS vectors to talaraich

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
sorry, I don't know what you've done or what you are trying to do or what the mri_info command is related to. Can you fill in the details? On 03/12/2015 04:20 PM, Krieger, Donald N. wrote: Do the results in the attached images make sense? Does it make sense that the transformation was

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Douglas N Greve
I meant which ones are causing the problems when you run mri_glmfit. When you run fslview you will see something that looks like a brain. As you scroll thru the different time points, you'll see the CBF maps for different subjects. They should be more-or-less in alignment. Look for ones that

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Simulation

2015-03-12 Thread Wolthusen, Rick Peter Fritz
Well, I checked the proper match of ASL and anatomical scans again and one of the subjects I reported before was indeed wrongly matched. Thanks! What do you mean with So the next thing I would do is to find which subjects are the ones that are off.? You mean off when I check for registration?

Re: [Freesurfer] Which files are needed to run longitudinal analysis?

2015-03-12 Thread Kate Riggall
Sorry, I believe I have fixed this by using --surface fsaverage lh. Thanks, Kate On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Kate Riggall kate.rigg...@gmail.com wrote: Bruce and Martin, Thanks, I now have it running of an external hard drive and it is working well. As a follow-up question: When I

[Freesurfer] eTIV, mri_label_volume, and scale factor

2015-03-12 Thread Colleen Takahashi
Hi, I am trying to eTIV correct the volumetric stats output from recon-all (ie aseg stats and aparc stats). I read the eTIV-estimated Total Instranial Volume, aka ICV wiki information, but I still have some questions. 1. Do all structures need to be eTIV corrected? 2. To use

Re: [Freesurfer] Which files are needed to run longitudinal analysis?

2015-03-12 Thread Kate Riggall
Bruce and Martin, Thanks, I now have it running of an external hard drive and it is working well. As a follow-up question: When I run the paired analysis, the final command (mri_glmfit --glmdir lh.paired-diff --y lh.paired-diff.thickness.sm05.mgh --fsgd paired-diff.fsgd --C mean.mtx --C age.mtx)