[Freesurfer] Longitudinal 5.0 with data from earlier version

2011-09-13 Thread Erica Griffith
Hi all, Does anyone have experience running a longitudinal analysis in version 5.0, using .mgz files generated from the last version of freesurfer? My understanding is that the only major differences between the previous and current versions were in the longitudinal stream. Any input would be

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal 5.0 with data from earlier version

2011-09-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
no, there are other differences as well. Bruce On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Erica Griffith wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have experience running a longitudinal analysis in version 5.0, using .mgz files generated from the last version of freesurfer? My understanding is that the only major differences

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal 5.0 with data from earlier version

2011-09-13 Thread Erica Griffith
Alright, thanks. Would you recommend against using the new longitudinal stream with data generated from a previous version though? That is my main question. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Bruce Fischl fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote: no, there are other differences as well. Bruce On Tue,

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal 5.0 with data from earlier version

2011-09-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Erica, I'm not sure what you mean. Why not just run it through all the way? And we would *strongly* recommend using the 5.1 longitudinal instead of 5.0 cheers Bruce On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Erica Griffith wrote: Alright, thanks. Would you recommend against using the new longitudinal stream

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal 5.0 with data from earlier version

2011-09-13 Thread Erica Griffith
Hi Bruce, We are working with a cohort of several hundred subjects, and all of the data has already been processed using the last version of FS. It would take quite a while for us to go through all of that data again, so we're trying to figure out if it would be okay to go ahead and use the

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal 5.0 with data from earlier version

2011-09-13 Thread Nick Schmansky
its ok to use just the longitudinal stream of 5.1 with your existing data. that is, you dont need to rerun the cross-sectional part of the three-stage longitudinal process, just -base stage and then the -long stage. n. Hi Bruce, We are working with a cohort of several hundred subjects, and