[Freesurfer] Research position, UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

2016-06-28 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
posted on behalf of Dr. Rahul Desikan: = The UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is looking for a researcher with strong interests in neuroimaging interested in a Specialist position at UCSF. We are a neurodevelopment and neuroimaging lab.

Re: [Freesurfer] Setting the number of Open MPI Threads in mri_em_register

2015-06-04 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Daniel, The recon-all script sets OMP_NUM_THREADS to 1 at the start of the script, and is changed only if the -openmp num flag is used. its very strange that you are seeing em_reg set to 40. in your recon-all.log, search for ‘openmp’, and it should show ‘1’ by default. you could also add

Re: [Freesurfer] frontal lobe problem on reconstruction

2015-05-18 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Mia, Hi, what sort of error? I looked at the image in freeview, and it looks like the patient is missing their left frontal lobe. The surfaces look ok in that region given that. btw, to make viewing in freeview easy, add this to your .cshrc, all one line: alias fv freeview -v mri/T1.mgz

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all error

2015-05-17 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Mia, Hi, I took a quick look at your BI22_SurferOutput/mri/orig/001.mgz and the problem appears to be with this input. The orientation is wrong, and it doesnt quite look like an mprage or equivalent. Unfortunately, after looking through your dicom series, it doesnt look like any of them are

Re: [Freesurfer] FLAIRpial refinement after manual editing of brainmask

2015-05-13 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Antonin, This is bug in recon-all that will be fixed for the next release. You can edit your recon-all, adding the lines with a +, to include this fix via this diff: set mdir=$SUBJECTS_DIR/${subjid}/mri set sdir=$SUBJECTS_DIR/${subjid}/surf + set tdir=$SUBJECTS_DIR/${subjid}/touch if

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentation of hippocampal subfields / version 6.0 release date

2015-05-12 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Josh, You can get an FS version that is close to v6 here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/dev Any testing on top of the hippocampal fields functionality would be greatly appreciated! Nick On May 12, 2015, at 5:42 AM, Eugenio Iglesias e.igles...@bcbl.eu wrote: Hi

Re: [Freesurfer] hippocampal subfields

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Schmansky, MGH [ni...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: 08 May 2015 19:05 To: Freesurfer support list Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] hippocampal subfields Erik, If you wanted to test a 'beta' of v6, which has the new hippocampal stream, then our current internal 'dev' build, which is very close

Re: [Freesurfer] VOI's from Sabuncu et al. 2012

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Aaron, The are the *.oasis.chubs.* labels found in the $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects/fsaverage/labels directory. You will need to use mris_label2label to map them to your subject. Have a look at the 'ba labels' section of recon-all for an example of this mapping operation. N. On Thu, 2015-05-07

Re: [Freesurfer] hippocampal subfields

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Erik, If you wanted to test a 'beta' of v6, which has the new hippocampal stream, then our current internal 'dev' build, which is very close to being the upcoming v6, can be downloaded from here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/dev/ This goes for anyone else on the list who

Re: [Freesurfer] tracking edits

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Deirdre, the -show-edits flag in recon-all will print edits. N. On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 12:29 -0400, Deirdre O Shea wrote: Dear Freesurfer experts, I wondered how I might be able to track all the edits I make on each subject e.g., how many control points etc. But most specifically if

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all compared to dev table

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Kody, The ReconAllDevTable wiki page describes the stream that is under development. For v5.3, you will want this page: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReconAllTableStableV5.3 Be aware though that the commands listed may not be *exactly* as that found in a v5.3 run, as this table is

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_convert gifti

2015-05-04 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Francesca, I looked at the files you sent and replicated the problem. It is due to creating your lh.EKppa.annot file using FreeSurferColorLUT.txt as the colortable file. You should create your own colortable file, which is simple to do, and create a new .annot file using that colortable (ie,

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_convert gifti

2015-04-30 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Francesca, How was lh.EKppa.annot created? Is it a custom list of annotations? Does it include an embedded colortable appropriate for those annotations? Can you send me the files 'lh.EKppa.annot' and 'lh.white'? I can try to replicate the problem. Also, can you run this: mris_info

Re: [Freesurfer] Installing FreeSurfer on Fedora 21

2015-04-14 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Ranjan, after downloading, confirm the integrity of the tarball by running md5sum on it. you should get the following sum: 6642289df823ebc27de52af57e9b3989 also, make sure you have at least 4.2GB of space prior to download. some older partitions have a 4GB max size (probably not the case, but

Re: [Freesurfer] QDec table.dat error

2014-12-19 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Katherine, if these files were created on a Mac in TextEdit, the carriage returns might be the problem. I’ve attached corrected files. On the Mac, to correct it, i did this: pico qdec.table.dat then press Ctrl-O to save, and Esc-D to change to DOS format before pressing enter to save.

Re: [Freesurfer] Performance of Broadwell and Haswell processors

2014-12-17 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
, processing all these images is the bottleneck now. Pradeep On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Nick Schmansky, MGH ni...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Pradeep, Our lab will be getting a Haswell-based system soon and will evaluate any speed gains

Re: [Freesurfer] Performance of Broadwell and Haswell processors

2014-12-15 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Pradeep, Our lab will be getting a Haswell-based system soon and will evaluate any speed gains. The system is a Dell PowerEdge R730 with an Intel® Xeon® E5‐2643 v3 3.4GHz processor. N. On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 13:43 +0530, pradeep mahato wrote: Hello everyone, Have anyone used Broadwell

Re: [Freesurfer] Desikan-Killiany atlas - ideal for all age ranges?

2014-11-11 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
To add to this thread, you could also use the parcellations from the DKT atlas that we provide, produced by the -cortparc3 flag of recon-all (which is run by default), which is based on 40 healthy subjects from the Mindboggle-101 project, described here: http://mindboggle.info/data.html N. On

Re: [Freesurfer] freeview fault: PETSC Error ...

2014-11-04 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
you can try downloading our nightly 'dev' build of freeview, from here: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download or here's a quicker way (this is a one-line command... wget file): wget ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/freeview/linux_centos6_x86_64/freeview.bin and

Re: [Freesurfer] pial vs. aseg

2014-10-17 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Ezra, The labeling of gm and wm that you see in the aseg.mgz file is not used to produce the cortical statistics found in the .stats files. The aseg.mgz grey matter appears this way because the aseg.mgz file is produced prior to running our 'surface stream', which produces the accurate gm/wm

Re: [Freesurfer] v5.1 control point mri_ca_normalize bug

2014-10-12 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
correct (the thing to do is comment-out the addition of the control points). n. On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 17:05 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote: I don't think you want to run with -nocanorm. Just commenting out the addition of the -f $ControlPointsFile should be sufficient. Right Nick? On Wed, 8

Re: [Freesurfer] freesurfer version vs cvs version

2014-08-26 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Joel, The 'recon-all.log' file in the 'scripts' directory of the subject should have the version of freesurfer used. Also, the file 'build-stamp.txt' in that same directory will show the version used. N, On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 18:31 +, Joel R Pieper wrote: Hello, I have 80 subjects'

Re: [Freesurfer] error loading subjects in QDEC

2014-08-11 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Katie, Hi, is the SUBJECTS_DIR set to the proper directory? I see from the output that it is set to: SUBJECTS_DIR is '/net/rc-fs-nfs/ifs/data/Shares/DMC-Sheridan2/projects/SAS/FreeSurfer/FS_5.3' which seems to imply that it might be set to the location of your freesurfer installation, and not

Re: [Freesurfer] (no subject)

2014-07-14 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Hugh, it looks like the new XQuartz v2.7.6 is breaking tkmedit, and we don't know why. You will have to revert to using v2.7.5: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.5.dmg Nick On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 15:25 +0100, Hugh Pemberton wrote: i've tried reinstalling xquartz (this is

Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-23 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Wang, what command-line flags were included? can you send me the recon-all.log file for these runs? The results should be the same with repeated runs if the default flags were used. Nick On Jun 21, 2014, at 10:20 PM, wangkangcheng_gmail kangchengwang0...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Bruce

Re: [Freesurfer] FLASH and MPRAGE sequences for segmentation on a GE 3.0T

2014-06-20 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
the sequences specified by adni are a good resource: http://www.adni-info.org/scientists/MRIProtocols.aspx they’re known to work with freesurfer. N. On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Sherwood, Matt matt.sherw...@wright.edu wrote: Freesurfer, We recently gained access to a new GE

Re: [Freesurfer] Segfault error

2014-06-19 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Jace, If your system auto-updated to XQuartz v2.7.6, which might have happened within the past couple weeks, then you should install v2.7.5 instead, as it seems that another Freesurfer user was able to get tkmedit working again on OSX 10.7.5 after reverting to v2.7.5. N. On Wed, 2014-06-18 at

Re: [Freesurfer] Version 5.3 recon-all run time

2014-06-17 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Linden, The fastest runtime that I have seen is just under 3.5 hours using a new and very fast system such as yours, using the -openmp 8 flag. Processing four participants in separate tcsh sessions is the recommended way of 'parallel' processing. There are flags in recon-all to allow splitting

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer installation problem

2014-06-10 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Venkat, Your system appears to be 32bit distribution, as indicated by 'i686' in your output string, but the freesurfer you installed is 64b, indicated by 'x86_64' in our filename. So you will need the 32b dist: freesurfer-Linux-centos4-stable-pub-v5.3.0.tar.gz Also, v5.0.0 is pretty old, I'd

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit for longitudinal 3 group analyses

2014-06-10 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Elijah, Qdec doesnt support three groups, so you'll need to use the commandline. Typing 'mri_glmfit --help' will display some output text. y.mgh is an input file. See also for examples: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsgdExamples Nick On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:37 +0100, Elijah Mak

Re: [Freesurfer] Seg fault (fwd)

2014-06-09 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Gillian, This tkmedit crash problem is a strange one. Something must have changed, and I’ll try to suggest some things to try. Was your .cshrc file changed? Anything added to it that might change LD_LIBRARY_PATH s? What is the output if you run: otool -L `which tkmedit.bin` it should be

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer gifti-Surface in Matlab

2014-06-06 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
). Bastian On 2 June 2014 20:50, Nick Schmansky, MGH ni...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Bastian, Are you using freeview to display the surface? If so, you will need to get the newest freeview.bin, which is here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/freeview

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer gifti-Surface in Matlab

2014-06-02 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
efforts so far! Bastian. On 29 May 2014 02:05, Nick Schmansky, MGH ni...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Bastian, Hi, I've posted a new mris_convert which should solve the problem for you. It's built for Centos 6, so if you need it for another platform, let me know. It's here

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_convert to GIFTI misaligned in freeview

2014-05-29 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Mike, Hi, a new mris_convert I’ve posted to the ftp site corrects this problem. It will now store the volume geometry info into two giiCoordSys structs, which an updated freeview will be able to read. mris_convert is here:

Re: [Freesurfer] URGENT: Error in analyse

2014-05-28 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Saloni, are you certain that you ran recon-qcache on subject 54987500? the error message says that the file lh.thickness.fwhm10.fsaverage.mgh is missing, and this file is created by -qcache. i'd suggest running: recon-all -s 54987500 -qcache then confirm that this file exists. Nick

Re: [Freesurfer] recon -all with .nii input problems with perl version 5.18

2014-05-28 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Samuel, Unfortunately the program that's failing is 'mritotal', which is an MNI tool that is distributed with freesurfer, so it's unlikely that we'll track this down anytime soon. However, this program is only run after our primary talairach alignment utility fails, and it appears from your

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer gifti-Surface in Matlab

2014-05-28 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Bastian, Hi, I've posted a new mris_convert which should solve the problem for you. It's built for Centos 6, so if you need it for another platform, let me know. It's here: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/linux-centos6_x86_64/ Nick On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 11:42

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentatoin fault using Freesurfer Functions Fedora 19 - Freesurfer 5.1

2014-04-29 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
somewhere? -Original Message- From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Schmansky, MGH Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 1:35 PM To: Freesurfer support list Cc: Zeke Kaufman Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentatoin

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentatoin fault using Freesurfer Functions Fedora 19 - Freesurfer 5.1

2014-04-28 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
John, Have you tried the Centos6_x86_64 build of freesurfer on Fedora 19? The Centos4_x86_64 build is built against a rather old kernel, and likely to go away soon anyway. Generally a debug build is not of much use for tkmedit seg-faults. If you still have trouble after trying the centos6

Re: [Freesurfer] Which is broken - GCC or Freesurfer build?

2014-02-18 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
This GLIBCXX error appears when running our Centos 6 build on an older OS. Try using our Centos 4 build. Nick On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 09:32 -0500, Bruce Fischl wrote: yes, it certainly looks like a library problem. You should talk to your sysadmin, or perhaps Zeke or Nick can comment cheers