Re: [Freesurfer] Large number of false negative MS lesions in SAMSEG

2022-08-16 Thread Martin Kavec
ve a lesion probability map directly by using the flag > "--save-posteriors Lesions" so you don't need to try different thresholds. > > Thanks, > Stefano > > > Subject: [Freesurfer] Large number of false negative MS lesions in SAMSEG > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:54:50 +02

[Freesurfer] Large number of false negative MS lesions in SAMSEG

2022-08-14 Thread Martin Kavec
External Email - Use Caution Hello, I am testing SAMSEG on my group of MS patients. Unfortunately, even when dropping threshold to 0.005 I have large number of false negative lesions left behind by SAMSEG (80% in about 75 cases I tried), which are clearly visible lesions. I

[Freesurfer] SAMSEG mesh format and content

2022-02-16 Thread Martin Kavec
External Email - Use Caution Hi all, previous question from Florent triggered my interest in SAMSEG and I am running now couple of cases to see what it gives. I would like to ask - SAMSEG can also output a mesh. How is the mesh stored in file? - how can it be visualized

Re: [Freesurfer] Custom intensities in aparc+aseg

2017-08-20 Thread Martin Kavec
ugh to do in > matlab. Read in the aseg, use find to find the indices of all the voxels > with a particular label, then replace the label with whatever intensity > you want. > > cheers > Bruce > On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Martin Kavec wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > &g

[Freesurfer] Custom intensities in aparc+aseg

2017-08-12 Thread Martin Kavec
Dear all, I ran my subjects through recon-all successfully. I am in a need to have custom intensities for segmentation and parcellation in aparc+aseg. Say, 10 - ventricles, 20 - amygdala, 30 - putamen, ... I would appreciate advice on how I could achieve that. Thanks in advance, Martin

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Kavec
, Martin Kavec martin.ka...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Zeke, Thanks a lot for explanation. I think I will install centOS into a virtual machine for quick solution. I only need it to run CVS. Thanks and best regards, Martin Sent from my iPad On 2.12.2013, at 22:50, Z K zkauf

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Kavec
05:09 PM, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi Lilla, thanks for coming back. Unfortunately I was not able to compile appropriate boost for my operating system Gentoo linux. Nevertheless I do not understand why mris_resample misses the library if it should be statically linked. Other binaries do not need

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Kavec
suggest is that you install the same version, or one very close to it. -Zeke On 12/02/2013 02:50 PM, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi Zeke, Thanks for response. Well it was the first thing for me to try to compile boost on gentoo, which went fine. However the libraries were not compatible

Re: [Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-11-28 Thread Martin Kavec
use for our latest release is 1.41. Lilla - Martin Kavec Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:10:53 -0800 Hi guys, When running mri_cvs_register on linux (5.3.0), I get into problem with mris_resample, which cannot find libboost_programs_options.so.5. I

[Freesurfer] Which boost version is used in CVS, mris_resample

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi guys, When running mri_cvs_register on linux (5.3.0), I get into problem with mris_resample, which cannot find libboost_programs_options.so.5. I installed the latest version of boost-1.52.0 for my system, but there are unresolved symbols. Which version is suitable for mris_resample?

Re: [Freesurfer] Tkmed in VirtualBox and wm parcelation

2013-09-09 Thread Martin Kavec
can check out Anastasia Yendiki's excellent TRACULA tool. cheers Bruce On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi all, I have two questions: 1. Does tkmedit, or freeview work under VirtualBox 2. Is it possible to parcelate white matter in freesurfer? Thanks, Martin Sent from my

[Freesurfer] Tkmed in VirtualBox and wm parcelation

2013-09-05 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi all, I have two questions: 1. Does tkmedit, or freeview work under VirtualBox 2. Is it possible to parcelate white matter in freesurfer? Thanks, Martin Sent from my iPad ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Re: [Freesurfer] Tkmed in VirtualBox and wm parcelation

2013-09-05 Thread Martin Kavec
wmparc.mgz if you have diffusion data you can check out Anastasia Yendiki's excellent TRACULA tool. cheers Bruce On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi all, I have two questions: 1. Does tkmedit, or freeview work under VirtualBox 2. Is it possible to parcelate white matter

[Freesurfer] Label corresponding to coordinate

2013-08-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi all, Is there a command in Freesurfer, which would return to which label (e.g. superior frontal white matter left) a coordinate x,y,z belongs to? Thanks, Martin Sent from my iPad ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

[Freesurfer] mri_normalize info

2012-11-11 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I would like to know what method mri_normalize uses to normalize image intensities of wm around 110. I do not mean to correct the bias field. Thanks a lot. Martin ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_cvs_register can not find

2011-11-06 Thread Martin Kavec
...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Martin, Could you give more details? Which version of mri-cvs-register are you using? Was there a log file that you could share also? Thanks, Lilla --Original Message-- From: Martin Kavec To: Freesurfer mailing list To: Lilla Zollei Subject: mri_cvs_register can

[Freesurfer] mri_cvs_register can not find

2011-11-04 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi all, I am trying to run mri_cvs_register but for some reasons it always terminates with: ERROR: Can not find or read $SUBJECTS_DIR/MY_SUBJECTS/cvs/combined_tocvs_avg35__elreg_aseg.m3z My command is as follows: mri_cvs_register --mov MY_SUBJECT Indeed the file is not there, but another one

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_cvs_register can not find

2011-11-04 Thread Martin Kavec
, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:40 PM, lzol...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Martin, Could you give more details? Which version of mri-cvs-register are you using? Was there a log file that you could share also? Thanks, Lilla --Original Message-- From: Martin Kavec To: Freesurfer mailing list

Re: [Freesurfer] error during mri_cvs_register

2011-06-21 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi David, FreeSurfer's binaries for MAC are still 32-bit and apparently cvs tries to allocate more that is possible. The lines of the error code below suggest that. I had the same problem and had to opt for x86_64 linux binaries, where the cvs runs fine. It needs ~ 6 GB of memory and takes ~ 2

[Freesurfer] cvs_register: missing surf2vol on MAC

2011-05-09 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi all, I am trying to run mri_cvs_register on MAC distribution o Freesurfer 5.0, but it is failing on surf2vol. Looking into the $FREESURFER_HOME/bin, surf2vol is completely missing. Could you please provide this file? Thanks, Martin ___ Freesurfer

[Freesurfer] CUDA on Mac

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi all, I wonder if there are any plans to support CUDA on Mac platform. I see there are libraries available for the platform. Thanks a lot for feedback, Martin ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

[Freesurfer] Failing mri_cvs_register

2010-09-23 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I am trying to run mri_cvs_register between a subject and another set of 10 healthy subjects (all analyzed with FS-5.0.0), but in all cases it fails on: trying to execute elastic registration - cmd line = surf2vol -fixed_mri . error executing surf2vol at

Re: [Freesurfer] cortical parcellations ProbtrackX

2010-06-18 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Patricia, when you convert your labels to volume, they will not be actually the cortical masks, but rather a line of voxels on the junction of GM and WM, which should be fine for seeding and targeting the tractography. Best, Martin On Friday 18 June 2010 02:24:52 ox...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [Freesurfer] cortical parcellations ProbtrackX

2010-06-17 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Patrica, recently I asked the question about surface tracking on the FSL mailing list and got an answer that you can track FROM the surface, but not TO surface, in other words you can not use FS label as a waypoint. The way to go is as Dough suggest in his followup. Best, Martin On

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_aparc2aseg on a custom annotation

2010-05-18 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Dough, On Monday 17 May 2010 22:29:28 Douglas N Greve wrote: So is the problem that cortex is 2000 every where including your label Yes this is the case, but I have already found a way around to get to where I wanted. mri_label2voi --help has the example which helped me. Thanks anyway,

[Freesurfer] mri_aparc2aseg on a custom annotation

2010-05-17 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I have a problem using mri_aparc2aseg with a custom annotations containing labels created manually in tksurfer and exported. Basically, I would like to end up with a volume file similar as aparc+aseg.mgz but containing only a strip of a cortex corresponding to a label defined using

Re: [Freesurfer] Methods for white matter hypointensities measure

2010-05-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi guys, I am exactly in the same shoes (T1s and T2 FLAIRs), so could you please also keep me in the club? Many thanks, Martin On Thursday 13 May 2010 02:22:06 Laluz, Victor wrote: Thank you for the prompt answer, as always Bruce!! I would be very interested in the techniques for

[Freesurfer] Label two volume conversion

2010-05-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, using tksurfer, I have created labels corresponding to significantly thinner cortex between two groups of my subjects. After that I converted the labels to volumes (mri_label2vol), which I would like to use for further analysis. However, the volumes cover only the interface between gray

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon-all problem (with talairach)

2010-03-30 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Jan, the place to look at is http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/Talairach Best, Martin On Tuesday 30 March 2010 12:30:35 Janani Dhinakaran wrote: Hello everyone, I wanted to know what I can do to fix this error- it occurs when I'm running recon-all -all -s Subject

[Freesurfer] Poor Talairach registration and effect on ICV

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, in our population of MCI patients, unfortunately parts of the cerebellum were not completely scanned. I ran the data throught the whole FS-4.5.0 pipeline and I see that the eTIV normalized volumes of the segmented structues have very large variance compared to the eTIV normalized group of

Re: [Freesurfer] Poor Talairach registration and effect on ICV

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Kavec
Thanks a lot for the opinion, Bruce! From practical point of view, removing the cerebellum from each subjuct should be rather easy since I have its segmentation. Howabout the template? Is there any segmentation of the cerebellum for the template, or I would have to do it manually? I suppose I

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

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Nick, could you please also provide us with a INTEL MAC qdec.bin binary? Many thanks in advance, Martin On Wednesday 17 March 2010 21:18:19 Nick Schmansky wrote: you have a couple options: 1) assuming you are using 64b linux, you can download a new version of qdec which supports

[Freesurfer] Model setup - comparing correlations

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, in my group analysis I found a significant difference in correlation of physiological parameter X and cortical thickness Y1 in an ROI. For each subject and each cortical parcel I also have a average of parameter Y2 and its correlation to X (calculated using GLM in SPSS). Y1 ~ X Y2 ~ X My

Re: [Freesurfer] ICV Error fs 4.3.1

2010-02-26 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Jeff, I see this relatively often. Eventhough the talairach registration is fine, the ICV is underestimated. In this case I take old ICV, which helps. mri_segstats --subject $MYSUBJECT --old-etiv-only This is in 99% of these cases a cure. This is not just a blind attempt. In these cases I

Re: [Freesurfer] updating to aparc.a2009s

2009-11-09 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Shriks, as far as I can see -cortparc, -cortparc2, -parcstats, and -parcstats2 flags (and possibly beyond) of the autorecon3 stage do the parcallation. But I am not sure whether there have been any significant changes between your version and the current version of the FS, which could

Re: [Freesurfer] Circle around vertex

2009-11-09 Thread Martin Kavec
feed it a list of vertex indices to build circular ROIs about. It should be available in the 5.0 release of FreeSurfer, but if you'd like to use it already, send me an email and I can send you a beta version. Cheers -=R Martin Kavec wrote: :) thanks. In volume images dilation is usually

Re: [Freesurfer] Circle around vertex

2009-11-07 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Bruce, if I dilate an arbitrarily shaped label in tksurfer, how much is it actually dilated? Thanks, Martin On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Bruce Fischl fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote: Hi Yigal, yes, you can select the vertex, make a label out of it, then dilate it however many times

Re: [Freesurfer] Circle around vertex

2009-11-07 Thread Martin Kavec
, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Bruce Fischl fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote: once every time you click dilate label On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi Bruce, if I dilate an arbitrarily shaped label in tksurfer, how much is it actually dilated? Thanks, Martin On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:18 PM

[Freesurfer] mri_glm-sim

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Kavec
I wonder how log does it ususally take to complete cluster-wise correction for multiple comparisons using mri_glm-sim. I have a group analysis of 19 subjects with 1 continuous and 1 discrete factor (two levels) and the mri_glm-sim is running now for about 4 days. Is there any way to track the

[Freesurfer] fsgd and contrast matrix

2009-09-24 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I would like to study cortical thickness in a cohort of patient with respect to MMSE and CDR. I prepared a fsgd file where I have both MMSE and CDR listed: GroupDescriptorFile 1 Title Mytitle Class Male Class Female Variable Age Variable MMSE Variable CDR Class Ctrl Class MCI Input

Re: [Freesurfer] fsgd and contrast matrix

2009-09-24 Thread Martin Kavec
an effect, I just want to see whether the atrophy areas correlated with CDR and MMSE differ. Thanks, Martin This will improve both DOF and efficiency. doug Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, I would like to study cortical thickness in a cohort of patient with respect to MMSE and CDR. I prepared

Re: [Freesurfer] reinstalling freesurfer

2009-08-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Fatima, try rm -rf $FREESURFER_HOME The command which Pedro gave you assumed that your freesurfer installation directory was /usr/local/, which may not be the case. If you had freesurfer correctly installed before, you must have had the $FREESURFER_HOME variable set correctly. Thus the command

Re: [Freesurfer] reinstalling freesurfer

2009-08-13 Thread Martin Kavec
be extremely grateful. Thank you and kind regards, Fatima *From:* freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] *On Behalf Of *Martin Kavec *Sent:* 13 August 2009 11:53 *To:* Ahmed, F, Me *Cc:* Freesurfer Mailing List; Pedro Paulo de Magalhães

Re: [Freesurfer] from dicom to mgz

2009-07-17 Thread Martin Kavec
Guys, I am using Philips DICOMs from INTERA and ACHIEVA generation systems without any problems. So far I have done about 600 analyses. INTERAs are on 11.4 software version and ACHIEVAs went from release 2 up to the current 2.6.1 (and soon release 3) However the images do not go directly from

Re: [Freesurfer] vtkMultiThreader error

2009-06-08 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Don, I am in a similar situation. I am on a IBM BladeCenter cluster (though with one blade only) with 2 Quad core Intels, and I experience intermittent crashes of mri_volmask as well. Similarly as you, when I run the mri_volmask on the crashed subject on a desktop, this passes perfectly

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all : brainmasl.mgz missing

2009-05-28 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Iwo, you do not say which command exactly you ran. brainmask is created in the first step of the processing pipeline, so to obtain it you should have successfully completed the following: recon-all -autorecon1 -s YOUR_SUBJECT Best, Martin On Thursday 28 May 2009 11:24:27 Iwo Bohr wrote:

Re: [Freesurfer] Troubleshooting

2009-05-28 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Falk, On Thursday 28 May 2009 11:56:51 Falk Lüsebrink wrote: Hello, I’m having trouble to generate a correct aseg.mgz for one volume of mine. The nu_noneck.mgz is also incorrect and therefore I think the -careg stage of autorecon2 might fail. Is there a way to do some kind quality

[Freesurfer] brainmask volume greater than ICV

2009-05-20 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I am running FS-4.3.0 and after recon-all -all, I am finding in aseg.stats of quite a few of my subjects that brain mask volume (1735600 mm^3) is greater than ICV (1701891 mm^3). The talairach failure detection passed fine: talairach.xfm OK (p=0.7556, pval=0.6675 = threshold 0.005 ). The

Re: [Freesurfer] How to complete gracefully

2009-05-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Nick, On Tuesday 12 May 2009 15:39:47 Nick Schmansky wrote: Martin, That etiv number seems high. Does the -tal-check stage pass? did you rerun the -segstats stage? that calculates etiv. The data were first pushed through the whole FS pipeline in 2006. As I look at the recon-all.log,

Re: [Freesurfer] How to complete gracefully

2009-05-12 Thread Martin Kavec
: Hi Martin, -make all is what we would suggest. Is there any reason the timestamps would be wrong on your files to make make all rebuild everything? cheers, Bruce On Sun, 10 May 2009, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, I have a bunch of analyzes (about 30), for which recon-all -all terminates

Re: [Freesurfer] How to complete gracefully

2009-05-12 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Bruce, On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:28:36 Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Martin, there are probably some files it wants to see early in the stream that didn't exist in 2006. I think the only cure is to string together the individual commands you want to run (you can find them in the recon-all

Re: [Freesurfer] How to complete gracefully

2009-05-12 Thread Martin Kavec
Bruce, but I am running 4.3.0 Thanks, Martin On Tuesday 12 May 2009 14:55:05 Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Martin, I'll leave this for Nick, but we fixed the atlas eTIV calculations in the new version. Not sure which step you need to rerun though. Bruce

[Freesurfer] How to complete gracefully

2009-05-10 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I have a bunch of analyzes (about 30), for which recon-all -all terminates prematurely at mris_volmask (and core is created). On one case I ran the mris_volmask and the rest of analysis by executing commands manually, which went fine, but it's laborious. Is there quicker way to complete

Re: [Freesurfer] How to complete gracefully

2009-05-10 Thread Martin Kavec
on your files to make make all rebuild everything? cheers, Bruce On Sun, 10 May 2009, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, I have a bunch of analyzes (about 30), for which recon-all -all terminates prematurely at mris_volmask (and core is created). On one case I ran the mris_volmask and the rest

Re: [Freesurfer] Masking brainmask based on surfaces

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Kavec
Greve wrote: but you are using aparc+aseg to generate the mask, so if aparc+aseg is perfect, the mask should be as well. Do the mask and aparc+aseg match? On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Martin Kavec wrote: Doug, ribbon (aparc+aseg) looks perfect, and corresponds to the surfaces ?h.white. Thanks

Re: [Freesurfer] Masking brainmask based on surfaces

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Kavec
wrote: This looks like a problem we had with an older version. What version of freesurfer are you running? Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, I am trying to mask a non-brain tissue left by watershed based on the cortical surfaces. I found that all what I need to be left is in aparc+aseg.mgz, so I

Re: [Freesurfer] Masking brainmask based on surfaces

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Kavec
orig.mgz -seg ribbon.mgz aparc+aseg is suppossed to inherit the cortex from ribbon.mgz doug On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi Dough, this data were analyzed using 4.0.4. So indeed it not the latest, which I am running normally. From which version has this been fixed, so I can

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness in WM disease - experience

2009-01-13 Thread Martin Kavec
wm from gray matter. David Salat has thought about this much more than I have, and may have more to add. cheers, Bruce Thanks a lot, Martin On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, I have been running quite a few clinical subjects (close to 300) through FS pipeline

[Freesurfer] Reusing ROIs

2009-01-12 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, For my group analysis I am thinking of reusing a specific set of cortical ROIs from already published data. I suppose that a target template (fsaverage) and ROIs itself should be sufficient to have. If I use the same fsaverage for my cohort, I should be able to get the data out of the ROIs

[Freesurfer] Cortical thickness in WM disease - experience

2009-01-12 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I have been running quite a few clinical subjects (close to 300) through FS pipeline and comparing cortical thickness from parcellated cortex for each individual subject to its agematched controls. The subject clinical symptoms are not specific, ranging from amnesia, reduced ability to

Re: [Freesurfer] (no subject)

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Rysia, I would look at wm.mgz loaded as auxiliary volume and switch to main volume frequently to see, whether you have anything in wm.mgz, which needs to be fixed. There is a tutorial on fixing wm.mgz on the followning web-page:

[Freesurfer] Qdec problem?

2008-11-05 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I am trying to run a group analysis on cortical thickness between patients and controls. In the qdec.dat I set a MMSE for all the controls 0.0. Now, whenever I try to covariate thickness against age and MMSE, the qdec complains that there is no spectrum in MMSE values. I tried to set MMSE

Re: [Freesurfer] Qdec questions

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Kavec
Thanks for the replay, Nick! On Monday 27 October 2008 16:48:26 Nick Schmansky wrote: Martin, To answer question 1, the fsaverage surface is used as a target surface to which the data (ie thickness) of each subject in the group is sampled and then smoothed, so the accuracy of the recon of

[Freesurfer] Qdec questions

2008-10-26 Thread Martin Kavec
Hello all, I have started with a group analysis using qdec and have some questions: 1. loading fsaverage into tkmedit along with rh.white and lh.white surprised me that the pial surfaces do not run under the skull, as I see it on a single subject but copy the white matter. It is also correct,

Re: [Freesurfer] Rat template creation: MRIstripskull failed

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Kavec
Mark, once I had a similar problem on an autopsied brain, where it was very difficult to obtain an MPRAGE-like contrast. So instead, I acquired T2-weighted and inverted it. This gave me contrast very similar to MPRAGE, though my analysis failed anyway, due to too strong bias field. So you

Re: [Freesurfer] Creating template rat model

2008-10-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Mark, without prior knowledge of what you do, I can just recommend you the recon-all option -notal-check. You can find out more about it by running recon-all -help | less. So your command would look like: recon-all -autorecon1 -notal-check -s $YOURRAT Best, Martin On Monday 13 October 2008

Re: [Freesurfer] (no subject)

2008-09-05 Thread Martin Kavec
Christian, I suspect that in example3-frontal and example2-frontal you have motion artifacts causing increased intensity in the cortex. On the other, example1-horizontal and example1-sagittal seem to have pretty low SNR, specially in GM, but very good GM-WM contrast. I wonder, if they were not

Re: [Freesurfer] RE: Freesurfer Digest, Vol 54, Issue 34

2008-08-29 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Prapti, yesterday I had a similar question and went to search the wiki page to educate myself more, after Bruce responce. The following webpage defines the steps taken during the options you asks: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/OtherUsefulFlags There you can see that your

[Freesurfer] Recommended workflow

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Kavec
Greetings to all, I have several pathological subjects, which need substantial editing involving removing of dura reminders, filling WM due to the lesions, and adding control points due to the WM atrophy. I ran recon-all -all first to have initial reconstruction, which helps me to focus on

Re: [Freesurfer] Recommended workflow

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Kavec
Thanks a lot for clarification, Bruce. Best, Martin On Thursday 28 August 2008 22:00:29 Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Martin, I think recon-all -autorecon2-cp -autorecon3 should be fine (it's a superset of the -wm stuff). Bruce On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Martin Kavec wrote: Greetings to all, I

[Freesurfer] tkmedit problem with XQuartz-2.3.0

2008-07-23 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, On my macbook pro (MAC OS X 10.5) I have recently updated my X to 2.3.0 and now I can not launch tkmedit: $ tkmedit $SUBJ brainmask.mgz rh.white -aux-surface lh.white Converting main surface: 100% done. Converting main surface: 100% done. Converting original surface: 100%

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit problem with XQuartz-2.3.0

2008-07-23 Thread Martin Kavec
is known to work on mac os 10.5 using the default X setup. Nick On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 22:43 +0200, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, On my macbook pro (MAC OS X 10.5) I have recently updated my X to 2.3.0 and now I can not launch tkmedit: $ tkmedit $SUBJ brainmask.mgz rh.white -aux-surface

[Freesurfer] Reanalyzing some OASIS cases

2008-06-23 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I would like to rerun recon-all (from the latest freesurfer) on a few cases from OASIS brains study, to get control values for my patient group. Since my computational options are rather limitted, I would like to avoid running redundant steps, which would anyway give me the same results,

Re: [Freesurfer] Topological defects in LGI

2008-06-10 Thread Martin Kavec
On Monday 09 June 2008 21:57:36 Bruce Fischl wrote: I guess it's possible but the -make switch is designed to prevent this. Are the surfaces topologically incorrect? What is the euler number for them? Bruce, this depends on at which point the topology fixing was interrupted. For this thread I

Re: [Freesurfer] Topological defects in LGI

2008-06-09 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Maria, On Monday 09 June 2008 15:00:10 Marie Schaer wrote: Martin, Which version of freesurfer did you use to generate the surfaces? with the latest one, 4.0.4 Because the number of topological defects in your surface (64) is very high. You may have to relaunch the surfaces (orig and

Re: [Freesurfer] Topological defects in LGI

2008-06-09 Thread Martin Kavec
On Monday 09 June 2008 21:14:35 Michael Harms wrote: No, I don't have any examples (although we haven't been looking either). However, Martin's email regarding problems he is encountering on the LGI computation seems premised on having surfaces with topological problems even under v4 -- hence

[Freesurfer] Topological defects in LGI

2008-06-08 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I get the following warning followed by error in LGI calculation: ... remeasuring lGI value for vertex iV = 6301. It may take a few minutes. WARNING -- Problem for vertex iV = 6301, lGI value is aberrantly high (lGI=48.6447)... ...lGI

[Freesurfer] Color scheme settings frustratration

2008-05-26 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi folks, I am scratching my head, how did you guys set the color scheme of the lgi overlay on: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/LGI the image with text Example of lGI overlay on the brain using a colocoded scale What I do is I load pial surface and overlay ?h.pial_lgi, but can not

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer vs. VBM

2008-05-15 Thread Martin Kavec
Thanks to all of you for ideas. You may also find interesting to look at: http://www.wikibooks.org page on VBM, which has large section of Criticism. The most striking for me is the inaccuracy of the spatial normalization, which may account for as much as 10.8 mm. On Thursday 15 May 2008

[Freesurfer] Freesurfer vs. VBM

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Kavec
Gentlemen, I am giving a lecture about aging brain. I only discuss freesurfer, since that's the method we use for the brain volume and cortical thickness assessment. There are other methods, such as VBM and SIENA potentially providing similar information. I would appreciate if you could point

Re: [Freesurfer] LGI of annotated cortex

2008-05-09 Thread Martin Kavec
stats file (can't add it to the one that is already there). doug Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, is it possible to obtain LGI values of cortices, similarly as curvature indices in ?h.aparc.stats? Could this value possibly be included in the ?h.aparc.stats files? Thanks in advance, Martin

Re: [Freesurfer] LGI of annotated cortex

2008-05-09 Thread Martin Kavec
/ curv file Have a nice day, Marie On 9 mai 08, at 10:29, Martin Kavec wrote: Thanks for responce, Dough. I've looked at recon-all as you suggested, and came up with the following commandline: mris_anatomical_stats -mgz -f lh.lgi.stats -b -a ../label/lh.aparc.annot -c ../label

[Freesurfer] LGI of annotated cortex

2008-05-08 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, is it possible to obtain LGI values of cortices, similarly as curvature indices in ?h.aparc.stats? Could this value possibly be included in the ?h.aparc.stats files? Thanks in advance, Martin -- ** Senior Clinical Research Associate MRI Unit of the

Re: [Freesurfer] Experience with -localGI on Mac

2008-04-24 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Nick, I am just giving a try to the new mris_compute_lgi matlab script kindly provided by Marie, and so far so good. I would appreciate the new binary for: Mac OS X 10.5.2, linux_x86, and linux_x86_64. Thanks a lot. Martin On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:40:12 Nick Schmansky wrote: Martin

[Freesurfer] mri_ca_label segfaults

2008-03-11 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I have an emergency here with recon-all -all on a VIP, which segfaults on mri_ca_label -align -nobigventricles ...I tried to run it from the command line and left out the -nobigventricles argument, since actually the subject has enlarged ventricles, but it didn't help. After running for

Re: [Freesurfer] finding WM hypointensities

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi Bruce, On Friday 22 February 2008 16:36:34 Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Thomas, the aseg includes hypointensities, but there's only so much you can do with only a T1-weighted image. We do have some beta versions that use a Could i possibly have the betas for testing? Thanks, Martin

[Freesurfer] Problems on MAC 10.5

2008-02-01 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I have upgraded my Mac OS X to 10.5 and after that nu_correct says: Can't locate MNI/Startup.pm $FREESURFERHOME/mni/bin/nu_correct line 37 Anybody has an idea, what could be wrong? Obviously, the file is there. Thanks, Martin ___ Freesurfer

Re: [Freesurfer] Problems on MAC 10.5

2008-02-01 Thread Martin Kavec
software updates. Nick On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 15:29 +0100, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, I have upgraded my Mac OS X to 10.5 and after that nu_correct says: Can't locate MNI/Startup.pm $FREESURFERHOME/mni/bin/nu_correct line 37 Anybody has an idea, what could be wrong? Obviously, the file

Re: [Freesurfer] using BET prior to recon-all?

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Kavec
In my experience, the FreeSurfer's brain extraction works better than the BET. Although, now with an option of iterative BET in the latest FSL, the outcomes are much better than before. In cases where brain extraction failed in my analysis, I found that it was the bias field correction which

Re: [Freesurfer] Folding Index question

2007-11-21 Thread Martin Kavec
Very interesting debate you keep here, gentlemen. I went on and divided FI by the area in one reference and one pathological subjects (and age matched references). Now it seems that the NewFI is quite correlated with cortical thickness. It even decreases from the frontal, through parietal to

[Freesurfer] Mapping group fMRI on surface

2007-11-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I can not find my way to map the results of the FSL fMRI group analysis (FLAME1+2) from different subjects on their average surface. Here is in more details what I have done: 1. fMRI analysis of each subject in FSL 2. group analysis (FLAME1+2) in FSL 3. cortical reconstruction of each

Re: [Freesurfer] Mapping group fMRI on surface

2007-11-13 Thread Martin Kavec
' am not 100% sure it is in common space, but I would guess it is. Thanks, Martin Martin Kavec wrote: Hi, I can not find my way to map the results of the FSL fMRI group analysis (FLAME1+2) from different subjects on their average surface. Here is in more details what I have done: 1

Re: [Freesurfer] Mapping group fMRI on surface

2007-11-13 Thread Martin Kavec
Bruce, it's auditory cortex I am interested in. If there is a tutorial or explanation somewhere, could you please point me to it. Is this already available in FS? Thanks Martin On Tuesday 13 November 2007 14:38:52 you wrote: what areas specifically? We have analyzed their data and have a

[Freesurfer] OT - animating ?h.pial or aparc+aseg

2007-11-05 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, sorry to bring an off topic, but I could not find a solution myself. I was asked to prepare a short fly-by animation of a ?h.pial for a TV who interviewed my boss last week. Would you have any recommendation on how to do that? The ?h.pial is a mesh, which is ideal, because the surface of

[Freesurfer] Interpretation of cortical thickness result

2007-10-16 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi folks, I have been puzzled for a while with the results from couple of my subjects. They all have clearly visible cerebral atrophy (says neuroradiologist). I ran them through FS-4.0.1 and aseg.stat gives me, as expected, severe loss of gray matter (and others as well) as follows: GM ICV

Re: [Freesurfer] Interpretation of cortical thickness result

2007-10-16 Thread Martin Kavec
overall thickness. Thanks, Martin cheers, Bruce On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi folks, I have been puzzled for a while with the results from couple of my subjects. They all have clearly visible cerebral atrophy (says neuroradiologist). I ran them through FS-4.0.1

[Freesurfer] Mapping segmentation to orig

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, how can I map the aparc+aseg.mgz back to $SUBJECT_ID/mri/orig/001.mgz, but without suffering from interpolation? Thanks, Martin ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Re: [Freesurfer] few oasis question

2007-07-12 Thread Martin Kavec
, Bruce On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Martin Kavec wrote: Hi. I have few questions regarding the recently published OASIS data analyzed using Freesurfer: 1. How did you produce $SUBJECT_ID/mri/wmparc.mgz. I am running recon-all -all on my subjects, but I don't get this file. 2. How did you

Re: [Freesurfer] few oasis question

2007-07-12 Thread Martin Kavec
. It has been taken down until we resolve it. doug Martin Kavec wrote: Hi. I have few questions regarding the recently published OASIS data analyzed using Freesurfer: 1. How did you produce $SUBJECT_ID/mri/wmparc.mgz. I am running recon-all -all on my subjects, but I don't get

[Freesurfer] Situation with OASIS

2007-06-04 Thread Martin Kavec
Hi, I was wondaring, what is the situation with OASIS data? Could you please share with us, in which form you will make the results of your great effort available? Thanks in advance for the great job (and reply of course). Martin ___ Freesurfer

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