Re: [Freesurfer] recon_all exited with errors

2013-03-06 Thread Sinead Kelly
Hi Nick, thanks for your advice - Freesurfer v5.2 has now been installed on our clusters and I am running the recon_all script again with this version. Is it necessary to re-run everything from scratch again ('mk subjdirs' and 'mri_convert') using this version or will it be okay to just re-run

[Freesurfer] entorhinal thickness

2013-03-06 Thread stdp82
Hi Bruce and other users, I have read the article on EC that you have suggested. But, I do not understand how I should obtain the EC thickness outcomes /statistical maps from my analysis. I have some question, please. I have already performed recon-all and cortical thickness analysis. For

Re: [Freesurfer] Estimate of number of manual edits and time to complete in 100subject sample

2013-03-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
it depends on (1) what you want to do with them (e.g. functional analysis vs. thickness) and (2) the quality of the scans On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Schumman Resonance wrote: This is a question for the FS community in general, I gather there is variability around this, but rather than an exact

Re: [Freesurfer] recon_all exited with errors

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Schmansky
Sinead, For subjects you have already processed with a prior version, you can just run: recon-all -s subjid -all and it will retain any edits that were made. Nick Hi Nick, thanks for your advice - Freesurfer v5.2 has now been installed on our clusters and I am running the recon_all

[Freesurfer] Error

2013-03-06 Thread Varghese Chikku
All, Any idea how can I sort this error, Loading data table /Users/chikkuvarghese/subject/qdec/qdec.table.dat... Number of columns: 4 fsid column:1 Number of factors: 3 Number of subjects: 1 ERROR: QdecDataTable::Load: problem parsing file

[Freesurfer] FDR questions

2013-03-06 Thread Yang, Daniel
Dear Freesurfer experts, I am interested in a specific brain region that is based on the 2009 atlas. I used Qdec to 'Generate Stats Data Tables' to get the cortical thickness info for this region and saved them in a file. Then I used SPSS and did an ANOVA test. The ANOVA test reveals that the

[Freesurfer] Extract cortex surface with Freesurfer

2013-03-06 Thread Valtina Pouegue
Hi, I'm a new user of Freesurfer. 1) I would like to extract only the cortex cerebrum . So I think I don't need the complete subcortical segmentation ( 20-40 hours). Do you know a way to segment only cortex or only ( cortex+ pial ( left/rigt hemispher)?2) I already try the complete

Re: [Freesurfer] Extract cortex surface with Freesurfer

2013-03-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi VP sorry, the subcortical stuff is needed to automate the cortical surface modeling, so you need teh whole thing. We do distribute matlab scripts for reading the surfaces in (read_surf.m). cheers Bruce On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Valtina Pouegue wrote: Hi,  I'm a new user of Freesurfer. 

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer 5.2 TRACULA and FSL 5

2013-03-06 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Sean - Thanks for trying out the new version! From what I've seen, the file $FSLDIR/etc/fslversion exists in FSL 5 as well. Does it exist in your distribution? a.y On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Sean Hatton wrote: Hi all, I have installed FreeSurfer 5.2 to take advantage of improvements in

Re: [Freesurfer] Can I skip some folders to install freesurfer

2013-03-06 Thread Dian Jiao
Thanks for the info, Nick. That is very helpful. Our install partition has limited size. So the idea is not to get rid of anything, but rather move these big data files somewhere else with much larger disk quota. I guess I could move the whole subject away. As long as SUBJECTS_DIR is set

Re: [Freesurfer] Error

2013-03-06 Thread Shantanu Ghosh
Hi Chikku-- can you try with a /newline at the end of your .dat file? shantanu On Wed, March 6, 2013 10:40 am, Varghese Chikku wrote: All, Any idea how can I sort this error, Loading data table /Users/chikkuvarghese/subject/qdec/qdec.table.dat... Number of columns: 4 fsid column:1

Re: [Freesurfer] Can I skip some folders to install freesurfer

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Schmansky
DJ, symbolic links would work. for instance: cd freesurfer mv average path_to_larg_disk_space/freesurfer_data ln -s path_to_larg_disk_space/freesurfer_data/average then you should have a link to average remaining in the freesurfer dir but the space is consumed elsewhere. Nick On Wed,

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint

2013-03-06 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Sara, yes, should work, just make sure that all cross are 5.1 (and not mixed) to remain consistent. By the way 5.1 can process differently many time points for each subject. Just not subjects with a single time point only. To include those you'd need 5.2 Best, Martin On 03/06/2013 01:32

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Schmansky
Sarah, I'm cc'ing martin reuter on this, but yes, you should be able to use your cross-sectionally processed scans from v5.1 in a longitudinal analysis using v5.2. Nick On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 05:46 +, Sarah Whittle wrote: Hi, RE the below post, we have longitudinal data from three time

[Freesurfer] corRead() error with Tracula / FS 5.2

2013-03-06 Thread Salil Soman
Dear Experts, I am setup fs 5.2 and have successfully run freesurfer processing on a SPGR dataset. However, when I attempt to run Tracula on that dataset, I keep getting a corRead(): can't open file /path/to/ducks/COR-.info (where to path to ducks is the patch to where my subjects are located),

Re: [Freesurfer] corRead() error with Tracula / FS 5.2

2013-03-06 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Salil - Can you send your trac-all.log and dmrirc files? Thanks! a.y On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Salil Soman wrote: Dear Experts, I am setup fs 5.2 and have successfully run freesurfer processing on a SPGR dataset. However, when I attempt to run Tracula on that dataset, I keep getting a

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: Tracula 5.2 debugging

2013-03-06 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Salil - The problem is that you've set dob0 = 1 but you haven't set b0mlist and b0plist, so it doesn't know where to find your field maps to do the B0 unwarping. a.y On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Salil Soman wrote: Thank you. Please see attached. -S On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:40 PM,

[Freesurfer] T2pial's use of bbregister failing

2013-03-06 Thread Winter, Warren
Hi all, Congrats on the new version! I've been excited to see how the use of data from T2 images could help pial surface estimation, but I'm encountering a problem with getting that to work. It seems to be failing to properly execute the bbregister command built into this part of the new

[Freesurfer] Question re: paradigm files for event-related design

2013-03-06 Thread Cesar Echavarria
Hi freesurfers, I have an event-related design experiment which outputs a file with a line corresponding to every TR. i.e. for TR = 1 the first 3 columns of the file look like: 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 4 0 1 5 1 1 6 1 1 7 1 1 8 1 1 9 1 1 Assuming I have 5 seconds of fixation followed by

[Freesurfer] Advice on integrating FSL's BET with recon-all

2013-03-06 Thread Winter, Warren
Hi again, We have had some suboptimal results from FreeSurfer's skullstripping algorithm, even after iteratively trying different watershed thresholds and after checking the quality of Talairach registration. The results are pretty good, but often leave some dura matter and bits of neck

Re: [Freesurfer] Advice on integrating FSL's BET with recon-all

2013-03-06 Thread Bruce Fischl
you can use mri_convert -rl ... to reslice the output of bet so that it has the same geometry as the rest of our stream cheers Bruce On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Winter, Warren wrote: Hi again, We have had some suboptimal results from FreeSurfer's skullstripping algorithm, even after iteratively

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint

2013-03-06 Thread Sarah Whittle
Thanks Martin and Nick, We have a number of subjects with single time points too, so I think 5.2 is the best way to go. Is there a way to specify which subjects have data at what time points. For example, if one subject has data at Time 1 and Time 3, and another has data at Time 2 and Time

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer 5.2 TRACULA and FSL 5

2013-03-06 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Sean - This works on our redhat centos 4 and centos 6. I can dig around some more, but it'll have to wait for Monday b/c I'll be out of the office the next couple of days. As for your other question, the symlink part has been moved to the -prep step, specifically to make it easier to then

Re: [Freesurfer] preproc-sess

2013-03-06 Thread Douglas N Greve
Can you send the terminal output? doug On 03/06/2013 04:33 PM, Meryem Ayse Yucel wrote: Hi all, I am running: preproc-sess -s sess01 -fsd bold -fwhm 5 -stc up -per-run However at the end it did not create an output like fmcsm. I only have fmc.nii, fmc.up.nii and fmcpr.up.nii. Am I doing

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint

2013-03-06 Thread jorge luis
Hi Sarah   The linear mixed effects (LME) estimation procedure deals with missing data and variable timing across subjects by specifying the time interval since baseline for each scan. You will have a different number of rows for each subject in your design matrix depending on how many time

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint

2013-03-06 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Sarah, you deal with the time during post-processing (statistical analysis). Yes, you have differently many rows for each subject. Years could be time from baseline, or time from start of study (e.g. start of drug treatment). It may be the same, but if some subjects are missing the baseline

[Freesurfer] Cannot see control points in tkmedit and freeview when connecting through X11

2013-03-06 Thread Caspar M. Schwiedrzik
Dear Freesurfer Team, when I am trying to set control points in tkmedit (FS 5.1 or 4.5) or to see control points in Freeview (FS 5.1), I run into a strange problem when I connect to our server through X11. Namely, I cannot see the control points, although they are being set when I place them (they

Re: [Freesurfer] Advice on integrating FSL's BET with recon-all

2013-03-06 Thread Matt Glasser
I would check the mri_em_register registrations of the step that immediately precedes mri_watershed (and produces talairach_with_skull.lta). We found that most of the variability and failures occurred in this step, and mri_watershed itself is a very robust brain extraction algorithm when it is

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint

2013-03-06 Thread Sarah Whittle
Thanks very much! From: Martin Reuter [mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2013 10:22 AM To: Sarah Whittle Cc: Nick Schmansky; freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of one timepoint Hi Sarah, you

[Freesurfer] 3T MPRage flags

2013-03-06 Thread Joshua Lee
The new Freesurfer has an optional flag to adjust NU intensity correction parameters for images acquired on 3T scanners. There exists also a flag for MPRage sequences. I use 3T MPRages. What is the recommended use in this case? Thanks Josh ___

Re: [Freesurfer] 3T MPRage flags

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Schmansky
Josh, The new -3T flag affects the nu correction stage, and specifies a 3T-based target for the talairach alignment, and the existing -mprage flag affects mri_normalize and mri_segment, so you can use both. Nick The new Freesurfer has an optional flag to adjust NU intensity correction