[Freesurfer] Methods for white matter hypointensities measure

2010-05-12 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello guys, I am curious as to how white matter hypointensities (on T1 mprage) are measured automatically for the aseg.stats file in FS? A group at UCSF is interested in using this measure for a study and would like to have a nice explanation or citation to describe how it is generated. I

Re: [Freesurfer] Methods for white matter hypointensities measure

2010-05-12 Thread Laluz, Victor
matter changes. Thank you for directing me to Koen Van Leemput. Take care, -Victor -Original Message- From: Bruce Fischl [mailto:fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:06 PM To: Laluz, Victor Cc: Nick Schmansky; freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu; Koen Van Leemput Subject

[Freesurfer] Reference for Insula delineation in standard parcellation

2010-04-16 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello Freesurfer-ers, I tried to look up a reference for the delineation of the insula label in the standard parcellation and came up empty. Does anyone have a published article, or some form of citation that explains how Freesurfer defines the insula? This is in reference to the insula label

[Freesurfer] Replicating qdec analysis with more than 2 continuous variables

2010-03-17 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello Freesurfer folks, I hope this question is simple to answer: Is there any way to do a surface-based group analysis, a-la qdec, without the limitation of 2 continuous variables? My goal is to analyze a thickness relationship with continuous variable X, which I have so far analyzed

Re: [Freesurfer] Replicating qdec analysis with more than 2 continuous variables

2010-03-17 Thread Laluz, Victor
To: Laluz, Victor Cc: Bruce Fischl; freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: Replicating qdec analysis with more than 2 continuous variables you have a couple options: 1) assuming you are using 64b linux, you can download a new version of qdec which supports selecting 'nuisance' variables in the design

[Freesurfer] Surface very inaccurate after reprocessing for control points

2010-02-26 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello, Throughout most of Freesurfer's version history, I have noticed this problem pop up every 50 or so cases I do: I will have a pretty well-processed surface but with some inaccuracies in the WM surface, I will put control points down to correct it, and reprocess with autorecon2-cp as

[Freesurfer] Any way to calculate overlap of labels to atlas regions quickly?

2009-10-14 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello, I'm interested in subdividing some of the standard atlas regions into anterior and posterior divisions. Besides creating individual labels for each of the labels, is it possible to create a generic anterior label for multiple subregions (encompassing an entire lobe at a time), then

[Freesurfer] Bug with aparcstats2table on aparc.a2005s parcellation

2008-10-23 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello, Not sure if this bug has been mentioned before, but there is a bug with using aparcstats2table for the aparc.a2005s parcellation map. If some of the subjects in the group have missing values of a certain type, aparcstats2table fails to designate a 0 for them. So for instance, it's often

[Freesurfer] Bug with aparcstats2table on aparc.a2005s parcellation - addendum

2008-10-23 Thread Laluz, Victor
The body of my email was lost because of the attachments: here it is again for those who are curious. Sorry about that, I didn't know a text file attachment would do that. Not sure if this bug has been mentioned before, but there is a bug with using aparcstats2table for the aparc.a2005s

[Freesurfer] Recurring issue with poor gray/white distinction - easy fix?

2008-10-20 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello everyone, I have many scans taken just under 10 years ago on a 1.5T Siemens scanner. For some reason, the images from this time period have consistent problems with gray matter / white matter contrast; consistently, Freesurfer measures almost all cerebral brain tissue as being white. I

RE: [Freesurfer] Recurring issue with poor gray/white distinction - easy fix?

2008-10-20 Thread Laluz, Victor
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 2:30 PM To: Laluz, Victor Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Recurring issue with poor gray/white distinction - easy fix? Hi Victor, have you tried messing with the segmentation parameters to mri_segment and mris_make_surfaces

[Freesurfer] Entire brain tissue categorized as wm in grainy images

2008-05-23 Thread Laluz, Victor
Hello, Occasionally I run into a problem with lower quality, noisy T1 images (1.5mmx1mmx1mm) where almost all of the tissue is classified as white matter. Upon inspecting these images (attached), I can understand why it would make this mistake; the white-gray matter border in them is very