[Freesurfer] Size of brain regions in mm2

2013-03-18 Thread Dusan Hirjak
Dear FreeSurfer experts, we did a FreeSurfer-Analysis of cortical thickness in schizophrenia patients with motor abnormalities and found significant changes of cortical thickness in many brain regions. The Qdec p-maps showed many regions with surface size exceeding 100mm2. We used a 15mm

[Freesurfer] Surface size of brain regions (clusters) in mm2

2013-03-18 Thread Dusan Hirjak
Dear FreeSurfer experts, we did a FreeSurfer-Analysis of cortical thickness in schizophrenia patients with motor abnormalities and found significant changes of cortical thickness in many brain regions. The Qdec p-maps showed many clusters (regions) with surface size exceeding 100mm2. We used

[Freesurfer] interchanging between FSL freesurfer

2013-03-18 Thread martina.andellini
Hi, my name is Martina and I'm a student of biomedical engineering in Rome. I'm doin g a brain imaging research for my final exam. I'm using freesurfer for registration and segmentation of brain images instead o f FSL tools (flirt,bet and fast) and then continue to process the data with FSL.

Re: [Freesurfer] Error from mri_concat while using QDEC

2013-03-18 Thread Andreas Berger
On Friday, February 01, 2013 17:12:00 Tudor Popescu wrote: Hi Doug Strangely, the basic mri_concat command now worked, and so did the full one. I think I initially had a \ at the end of my command, just after the file name, which should not have been there; although having tried again with

Re: [Freesurfer] Error from mri_concat while using QDEC

2013-03-18 Thread Tudor Popescu
Hi Andreas I don't think it's about the OS (I'm on WInXP SP3, 32 bit, hosting Linux using Vritualbox), but about the environment variables, even though from what I could see, I had them all correctly set. I gave up and am just running this through FSL.. Tudor On 18 March 2013 11:13, Andreas

Re: [Freesurfer] licence file problem

2013-03-18 Thread Karen Duarte
Hi freesurfer masters, so I created the '.licence' file in the freesurfer_home, with the 3 lines of the mail with licence i recieved. And when testing up freesurfer, as they say herehttp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TestingFreeSurfer, I receive the ERROR: FreeSurfer license file

[Freesurfer] Asymmetries of cortical thickness

2013-03-18 Thread Sophie Maingault
Hello, I obtained a map of cortical thickness asymmetries after the registration on the symmetric atlas. But I would to obtain the same map with raw data I mean just by subtract lh.thickness and rh.thickness. How can I modify the part #Create a stack of subjects in wiki page ? I have to

Re: [Freesurfer] Size of brain regions in mm2

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Dusan the one significant confound that you have to worry about is subject motion being substantially more in your patient population. You might try rating them for motion blinded to group and see if there is an inbalance. cheers Bruce On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Dusan Hirjak wrote: Dear 

Re: [Freesurfer] interchanging between FSL freesurfer

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Martina we analyze the data in native coordinates not MNI/talairach ones. You can convert volumes to tal coords using either mri_vol2vol or mri_convert and the talairach transform found in $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subject/mri/transforms/talairach.xfm cheers Bruce On Mon, 18 Mar 2013,

Re: [Freesurfer] Medial orbitofrontal QA question

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Alice, I would check out whether autocorrection of the defects in that area were done properly. You create a segmentation of the defects with defect-seg. It might not be in 5.0, so I've attached it. It might not work properly in 5.0. If so, you'll have to download 5.2 (you can have two

Re: [Freesurfer] Asymmetries of cortical thickness

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
you will have to use the same stream, just specify one subject when your mris_preproc doug On 03/18/2013 08:06 AM, Sophie Maingault wrote: Hello, Iobtained a map of cortical thickness asymmetries after the registration on the symmetric atlas. But I would to obtain the same map with raw

Re: [Freesurfer] make a volume template from the surface-based template for non-human primates

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
We use the MNI305through the (affine) talairach.xfm transform. doug On 03/17/2013 11:47 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Longchuan I'm not sure what space the volume average is constructed in - Doug would know. Probably talairach, in which case it won't match the surfaces well. Can you send along

Re: [Freesurfer] licence file problem

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Karen not the s in /home/karen/freesurfer/.license (that is, .license not .licence) cheers Bruce p.s. I'll admit I had to look at your email 3 or 4 times before I figured this out :) On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Karen Duarte wrote: Hi freesurfer masters,so I created the '.licence' file in

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface size of brain regions (clusters) in mm2

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
The wm-anat-snr script (attached in case you don't have it) is good at picking out cases with motion-related noise. You get one number for each subject, and you can then do a statistical comparison between groups on that one number. doug On 03/18/2013 03:06 AM, Dusan Hirjak wrote: Dear

Re: [Freesurfer] A question regarding high FA values when running DTI script

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
The values look about right in the table. Your pipeline looks ok, thought the last step uses fa_FOLDER-NAME.mask.nii instead of the output of mri_vol2vol (fa_FOLDER-NAME.nii). doug On 03/17/2013 02:16 AM, Rotem Saar wrote: Hi all, I run into somthing that seems odd to me and wanted

Re: [Freesurfer] Medial orbitofrontal QA question

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Alice, you might also see what Rahul (ccd) thinks if you send an image. cheers Bruce On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Alice Burnett wrote: Hi FreeSurfer experts, I have been working with a dataset we have run through FreeSurfer 5.0 and am interested in the medial orbitofrontal region (Desikan

[Freesurfer] Neuroimaging RA position available at VA Boston

2013-03-18 Thread Huiting Liu
The Memory and Neuroimaging lab (PI: Scott M. Hayes; http://www.bu.edu/brainlab/), integrated with the Memory Disorders Research Center and Neuroimaging Research Center at VA Boston Healthcare System, is currently accepting applications for a full-time neuroimaging research assistant to begin in

Re: [Freesurfer] Asymmetries of cortical thickness

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
No, it is not, the target needs to be fsaverage_sym doug On 03/18/2013 09:13 AM, Sophie Maingault wrote: So I do : mris_preproc --target fsaverage --xhemi --hemi lh --paired-diff --meas thickness --out lh.lh-rh.thickness.sm00.mgh --s t0001 --s t0003 --s t0009 --s t0027 --s t0031 --s t0033 --s

Re: [Freesurfer] Asymmetries of cortical thickness

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
It is possible, it is just not a good idea because if you map rh to lh and then compare to lh, the rh will have been interpolated to get it into the lh. Even if there are no differences between the two, you will see differences because of the interpolation. Mapping both to fsaverage_sym means

[Freesurfer] Definition of medial temporal lobe

2013-03-18 Thread Akshay
Hello freesurfer experts, I am doing some TBM analysis and I am looking for the definition of Medial temporal lobe. According to the definitions I found out they are hippocampus+amygdala+brainstem+parahippocampal regions+entorhinal region. I can get hippocampus and amygdala ROI from aseg.mgz;

Re: [Freesurfer] long_qdec_table

2013-03-18 Thread Christopher McCarthy
Hey Martin, Thanks for your quick response and all the great work you've done on the longitudinal pipeline. Replacing the LongQdecTable.py did the trick. Thanks again, Chris On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Martin Reuter mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Chris, try to rename the

Re: [Freesurfer] question about hippocampus subfield segmentation flag

2013-03-18 Thread Juan Eugenio Iglesias
Hi Mehul, that should work. Let us know if you have any problems. Kind regards, Juan Eugenio Iglesias On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 14:29 -0700, Mehul Sampat wrote: Hi Folks, I had a question about the hippocampus subfield segmentations as described here :

[Freesurfer] mris_preproc

2013-03-18 Thread Mariam Sood
Hello All, I am trying to do a cross-subject surface based analysis of data analysed using FSL. I am following the instructions in the following tutorial link. http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/FslFeatFreeSurfer Each of my subject data comprises of two runs. My question is

[Freesurfer] editing Cts an pial surface

2013-03-18 Thread Claudia Dacquino
Hi everyone, I'm a very new fresurfer user and I have to understand the very simple basis of its use yet. So I have some maybe stupid questions about that. I heve to work on cortical thickness, so I suppose I have to complete the segmentation and then correcting CPs and Pial surface. The first

Re: [Freesurfer] editing Cts an pial surface

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Claudia the first thing to do is run recon-all -all to complete a recon. Then you look through your data (surfaces overlaid on volumes) and determine if it is accurate (or accurate enough). If not, then control points are one possible intervention, and yes you would put them in regions of

Re: [Freesurfer] editing Cts an pial surface

2013-03-18 Thread Claudia Dacquino
yes I'm sorry, I'm new here. thanks a lot. claudia 2013/3/18 Bruce Fischl fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Hi Claudia can you cc the list so others can answer? I would view the ?h.pial and ?h.white surfaces over the norm.mgz and see if you think they are accurate. If not, there are various

Re: [Freesurfer] Definition of medial temporal lobe

2013-03-18 Thread Christophe Destrieux
Hi You would probably like to include : - the parahippocampal gyrus - the hippocampus - the amygdala but not the brain stem The question is more complex for the entorhinal area since it is a part of the parahippocampal gyrus. To make things simple : - the hippocampus lies at the

Re: [Freesurfer] make a volume template from the surface-based template for non-human primates

2013-03-18 Thread Longchuan Li
Hi, Bruce Thank you for the information. I tried all possible combinations of mris_fill command line and none of them worked. Also, I loaded my ?h.white in tksurfer and confirmed that the surface is there. Do you want me to send you the surface file? One example I used is this: mris_fill

[Freesurfer] longitudinal stream - template

2013-03-18 Thread Yolanda Vives
Dear FreeSurfer experts, I have run a longitudinal study considering multiple time points (7 scans/subject on average) with FS 5.1. However, I am interested in the percent changes between two time points only (between 0 and 6 months and between 0 and 1 year). Should I run the longitudinal stream

[Freesurfer] LGI

2013-03-18 Thread Jon Wieser
i am trying to computer the LGI local gyrification index with freesurfer. I have Matlab on my machine. I got the following error: recon-all -s freesurfer -localGI Subject Stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v5.1.0 Current Stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v5.1.0

Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal stream - template

2013-03-18 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Yolanda, actually it is advantageous if the template is build from more time points. You don't need to process the images again, just do your statistical analysis with the time points you are interested in. But: why restrict the statistics to a subset of the data? If you are interested in

Re: [Freesurfer] LGI

2013-03-18 Thread Marie Schaer
Hi Jon, It looks like the matlab path is not set on your machine. Can you set the $PATH environment variable to include the path to the matlab functions as well? You can try to launch the command getmatlab, if you get the answer that matlab is not installed, it means that the $PATH

Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal analysis

2013-03-18 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Joy-Loi, so you have 2 time points? the first with a single scan, the second with two within-session scans that you want to average? I don't understand exactly what you are trying to do. To test differences in reliability you'd have to scan a bunch of subjects twice in a session and then

Re: [Freesurfer] Adding low-res T2 and PD images in the recon-all stream - any advantages?

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Ashley I think including them would potentially bias your results if for example more of your scans with T2s were controls or some such. cheers Bruce On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ashley Shurick wrote: Hi all, I have a similar question: My T2 scans are similar to Nicola's - approximately .86 x

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_preproc

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Mariam, combine the runs ina gfeat analysis, then follow the instructions in section 1.2 of http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/FslGroupFeat doug On 03/18/2013 10:53 AM, Mariam Sood wrote: Hello All, I am trying to do a cross-subject surface based analysis of data

Re: [Freesurfer] subcortseg error - ?h.white surfaces not available

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Akio what was your full command line? cheers Bruce On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, A. Yamamoto wrote: Hi, After upgrading to FreeSurfer 5.2.0, the command with -subcortseg flag exited with the following error. MRISread(/usr/local/freesurfer/5.2.0/dist/subjects/test/surf/lh.white): could not

Re: [Freesurfer] LGI

2013-03-18 Thread Marie Schaer
Hi Jon, I guess you don't have the image processing toolbox installed with matlab? fspecial is a matlab function comprised in this toolbox… I am afraid that lGI with not run without it. Marie On Mar 18, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Jon Wieser wie...@uwm.edu wrote: I added the matlab bin directory

Re: [Freesurfer] Adding low-res T2 and PD images in the recon-all stream - any advantages?

2013-03-18 Thread Ashley Shurick
Hi all, I have a similar question: My T2 scans are similar to Nicola's - approximately .86 x .86 x 4.5mm. However, about 60/168 subjects don't have T2 scans. Would you recommend including the T2's for the subjects who have them, or excluding the T2 scans altogether? Thank you in advance for your

[Freesurfer] wrong registration

2013-03-18 Thread stdp82
Hi list, I'm noting that registration of DWI and T1 images for some subject is wrong (in the .mincost the first value is netx to 1.1). Before recall new recon-all, trace-all .. what do you advise me? Stefano ___ Freesurfer mailing list

Re: [Freesurfer] wrong registration

2013-03-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
Three things: 1. Make sure they are the same subject 2. Make sure they are not left-right reversed 3. Most likely it is that the initial registration failed. This is done with FSL. There are a couple of options: a. If the anat and dti were collected within the same session, you can try

[Freesurfer] Problems with recon-all

2013-03-18 Thread Marcos Martins da Silva
I installed virtualbox 4.2.8 and CentOS6 (kernel 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64). Got tkmedit and tksurfer working on CentOS VM. Recon-all starts and run for sometime but stop with errors a bit later. On bright side I noticed freeview works great both on centos VM and on Fedora 18. At your site, I

[Freesurfer] Very different results between 5.1.0 and 5.2.0

2013-03-18 Thread Yang, Daniel
Dear FreeSurfer Experts, I ran FreeSurfer 5.1.0 and FreeSurfer 5.2.0 on identical set of 161 subjects, and I'm interested in rh_superior_temporal_sulcus_thickness in particular. Previously, the mean thickness is 2.24 mm in 5.1.0; now it is 3.28 mm in 5.2.0. They are significantly different,

Re: [Freesurfer] subcortseg error - ?h.white surfaces not available

2013-03-18 Thread A. Yamamoto
Hi Bruce, Here are command lines I used: recon-all -s test -i ./sample-001.mgz -i ./sample-002.mgz -autorecon1 recon-all -s test -subcortseg The error occurred in the final process, i.e. calculation of stats on the automatic segmentation. Thanks, Akio 2013/3/19 Bruce Fischl

Re: [Freesurfer] Very different results between 5.1.0 and 5.2.0

2013-03-18 Thread Ritobrato Datta
I concur. I have seen similar results in primary visual cortex from ~40 subjects. While fs 5.1 estimated mean thickness in the range of 1.5 to 1.9 in V1, fs 5.2 is giving me V1 thickness in the range of 2 to 2.3. Ritobrato Datta, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Researcher Department of Neurology University

Re: [Freesurfer] Very different results between 5.1.0 and 5.2.0

2013-03-18 Thread Matt Glasser
Do the surfaces look correct in these regions? You might post some screenshots of subjects who have a big difference between 5.1 and 5.2 with the 5.1 and 5.2 white and pial surfaces on volume slices that highlight the difference. Without this kind of info, its hard to know which was more

[Freesurfer] interpreting clusters from 2 and 3 way interactions

2013-03-18 Thread Laura M. Tully
Hi Freesurfer experts, I'm hoping you can help me understand how to interpret interactions in clusters identified in whole brain analysis using glmfit and glmfit-sim. Below I describe what I've done and what I'd like to be able to do. Any suggestions would be most appreciated! - I have two