[Freesurfer] Incorporating (high resolution) T2- and FLAIR volumes

2013-03-28 Thread Lukas . Scheef
Hi FreeSurfer experts! We have isotropic T1/T2 and FLAIR volumes for a larger cohort. It would be fine to use the T2 / FLAIR volumes to improve the segmentation and to perform a couple additional analyses using FS. This leads to the following questions: 1) How do I incorporate T2/Flair

[Freesurfer] Problem with tracula: incomplete or lacking tracts

2013-03-28 Thread stdp82
Hi Analstasia, as you suggest, adjusting brain mask the tracts are better. Now I'd like to perform trac-all with new version by using a new configuration file. I do not understand what I should do for: 1- set b0mlist2- set b0plist Thanks. Stefano Messaggio originale Da:

[Freesurfer] qdec covariates

2013-03-28 Thread stdp82
Hi list,I'm performing qdec. This my file.dat1 diagnosis discrete 21 Pathology2 Controls2 Thickness_lh continuous 03 Thickness_rh continuous 04 NPStest continuous 0Continuous Factors: Mean: StdDev:--- -

Re: [Freesurfer] Bug in DOSS implementation in QDEC

2013-03-28 Thread jm
On 03/25/2013 02:09 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: Dear FreeSurferers, it has just come to my attention that there may be a bug in the way that QDEC computes contrasts for DOSS. If you are using QDEC in this way, please hold off until I track down the problem. Also, please let me know if you

Re: [Freesurfer] Incorporating (high resolution) T2- and FLAIR volumes

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
1a) You would do this after running recon-all on the T1-weighted image. It will only adjust the surfaces, not the segmentation. Something like recon-all -T2pial path to flair 1b) this will work with either, but in my experience the FLAIR helps more to distinguish dura from gm 2) Yes. The

Re: [Freesurfer] Underestimated Pial surface - after deleting problematic voxels

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
eek, that's pretty bad. No idea why that would happen. Can you send us the recon-all.log? If you rerun with the original brain.finalsurfs.mgz does it restore good surfaces? On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, preci...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hello Freesurfers, I ran recon-all on a subject's structural

Re: [Freesurfer] Underestimated Pial surface - after deleting problematic voxels

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
well, something is really wrong. Did you happen to change the voxel type of brain.finalsurfs.mgz? Can you run mri_info on it and send us the results? If not, then upload the tarred and gzipped subject dir and I'll take a look. I don't think it will be hard to fix On Thu, 28 Mar 2013,

Re: [Freesurfer] Underestimated Pial surface - after deleting problematic voxels

2013-03-28 Thread preciado
mri_info for both attached. Interestingly enough, brain.finalsurfs.manedit.mgz is significantly larger in size. If it was a copy of the other, shouldn't it be the same size? Also, brain.finalsurfs.manedit.mgz shows a time/date stamp from the last time I edited it and brain.finalsurfs.mgz has a

[Freesurfer] Recon-all errors (reposting)

2013-03-28 Thread Marcos Martins da Silva
Hi, freesurferers I am trying to execute the post installation tests as recommended at Freesurfer Wiki. Using a CentOS6 Virtual Machine (kernel 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64) over Fedora 18 using VirtualBox 4.2.8. Freesurfer version is 5.2. Tkmedit, Tksurfer, qdec and freeview all work great.

Re: [Freesurfer] Bug in DOSS implementation in QDEC

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
All versions are affected. doug On 03/28/2013 08:34 AM, jm wrote: On 03/25/2013 02:09 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: Dear FreeSurferers, it has just come to my attention that there may be a bug in the way that QDEC computes contrasts for DOSS. If you are using QDEC in this way, please hold off

Re: [Freesurfer] Incorporating (high resolution) T2- and FLAIR volumes

2013-03-28 Thread Matt Glasser
I find the T2w image works well for removing dura and blood vessels, but I'm not sure FLAIR would work for T1w/T2w myelin mapping because of what would happen to the ratio near the pial surface. Instructions for T1w/T2w myelin mapping are available here:

[Freesurfer] Antwort: Re: Incorporating (high resolution) T2- and FLAIR volumes

2013-03-28 Thread Lukas . Scheef
Dear Matt! Thanks a lot. We do have both FLAIR and T2 - so I could use the FLAIR for the clean-up procedure and use the T2 volumes for myelin part... Best wishes, Luke Matt Glasser

Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with tracula: incomplete or lacking tracts

2013-03-28 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Stefano - Nothing has changed with these variables between 5.1 and 5.2. So do with them whatever you were doing before. a.y On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, std...@virgilio.it wrote: Hi Analstasia, as you suggest, adjusting brain mask the tracts are better.  Now I'd like to perform trac-all with

Re: [Freesurfer] error during trac-all -prep

2013-03-28 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Jon - The command that fails is trying to multiply 2 volumes and complains that they have different sizes. Have you checked if these 2 volumes exist and what their dimensions are? a.y On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Jon Wieser wrote: i ran trac-all -prep -c dmrirc_single_subject and got the error

[Freesurfer] Different MPRAGE sequences

2013-03-28 Thread _andreia_
Hello list, I have a group of subjects (4 patients and 8 controls) in which one MPRAGE sequence was used and another group of subjects (2 patients and 2 controls) where a diffent MPRAGE was used. Both groups were acquired in the same scanner. For each subject I have two anatomical

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -path error

2013-03-28 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Nawaf - Can you please send your trac-all.log? It's possible that the problem started at an earlier step. Thanks, a.y On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Nawaf Yassi wrote: Dear mailing list I am encountering an error at the trac-all –path stage of a tracula analysis (the first two stages on

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula Cluster Question

2013-03-28 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Sal, 1. I have no experience with the sun grid engine, perhaps someone else on the list can help with that. 2. The -bedp step needs the outputs from the -corr and -masks steps. The -path step needs the outputs from the -bedp step. The output files from each part are listed here:

Re: [Freesurfer] error during trac-all -prep

2013-03-28 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
You can open them in a viewer, or just run mri_info on them. On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Jon Wieser wrote: How do i check the dimensions of the volumes? Jon - Original Message - From: Anastasia Yendiki ayend...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu To: Jon Wieser wie...@uwm.edu Cc: freesurfer

Re: [Freesurfer] memory allocation errors on Snow Leopard running dmri_train (fwd)

2013-03-28 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Ping - It'll make it easier for us to replicate your memory error if you send us the data set where you get the error. Can you please zip up the dmri, dmri.bedpostX, and dlabel directories for this subject and upload them for me and Zeke? https://gate.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/filedrop2/

[Freesurfer] mris_thickness qcache for xhemi surfaces

2013-03-28 Thread Ejoe Yizhou Ma
Dear Freesurfer experts, I'm trying to investigate lh-to-rh asymmetry, so I register my subjects to the subject of fsaverage_sym following the instructions on this page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Xhemi. After all the surfreg commands I've got ?h.thickness files in

Re: [Freesurfer] Different MPRAGE sequences

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
it really depends on what the differences are. The best thing to do would be to scan some controls with both sequences and see what the differences are, although that won't rule out some disease-specific differences that you only see in the patients On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, _andre...@sapo.pt

Re: [Freesurfer] Different MPRAGE sequences

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
p.s. you would be better off if you had the same proportion of patients and controls with each sequence. Matching the numbers within one sequence and not the other doesn't really help On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, _andre...@sapo.pt wrote: Hello list, I have a group of subjects (4 patients and 8

Re: [Freesurfer] Different MPRAGE sequences

2013-03-28 Thread _andreia_
Hi Bruce, I did that test some time ago (each sequence alone or averaged) but only with one control subject. I then checked the values of different measures and the cortical thickness maps for each situation and they were very similar indeed. I did it only with one subject because the

Re: [Freesurfer] perirhinal analysis

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
It says no such file or directory does rh.perifhyinal.label exist? On 03/28/2013 11:55 AM, std...@virgilio.it wrote: Hi list, I'm running perirhinal analysis with this error: mri_label2label --srcsubject fsaverage --srclabel rh.perirhinal.label --trgsubject Con01 --trglabel

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_thickness qcache for xhemi surfaces

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 03/28/2013 12:16 PM, Ejoe Yizhou Ma wrote: Dear Freesurfer experts, I'm trying to investigate lh-to-rh asymmetry, so I register my subjects to the subject of fsaverage_sym following the instructions on this page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Xhemi. After all the surfreg

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_thickness qcache for xhemi surfaces

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
Actually, #2 will not work. I don't think you can use qdec with the xhemi stuff anyway. You should use the mris_preproc command followed by mri_glmfit. doug On 03/28/2013 12:51 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: On 03/28/2013 12:16 PM, Ejoe Yizhou Ma wrote: Dear Freesurfer experts, I'm trying to

[Freesurfer] Set up data for longitudinal processing

2013-03-28 Thread Lukas . Scheef
Hi folks, sorry it's me again with a very basic question. What is the best way to import longitudinal data? recon-all -i /path/T1A.nii -i /path/T1B.nii FIRSTSUBJECT or recon-all -i /path/T1A.nii FIRSTSUBJECT_A recon-all -i /path/T1A.nii FIRSTSUBJECT_B I tend to use the second choice because

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_thickness qcache for xhemi surfaces

2013-03-28 Thread Ejoe Yizhou Ma
Thanks, Doug. I'm not planning to use qdec. It's just that I used to generate the ?h.thickness_max10.fwhm10.fsaverage_510.mgh files (which are what we name the files after running the two commands) before I use mris_preproc and mri_glmfit. I also generally skip the smooth step in freesurfer

Re: [Freesurfer] Set up data for longitudinal processing

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Luke if I understand you properly the second way it the correct way (assuming T1A.nii and T1b.nii are two timepoints for a subject). I think you have a typo though as your second recon-all should use T1B.nii as input. cheers Bruce On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, lukas.sch...@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_thickness qcache for xhemi surfaces

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Cherry, what I meant was that you cannot use the qcache with xhemi. You'll need to run the mris_preproc command as listed on the web page. doug On 03/28/2013 01:00 PM, Ejoe Yizhou Ma wrote: Thanks, Doug. I'm not planning to use qdec. It's just that I used to generate the

[Freesurfer] R: Re: perirhinal analysis

2013-03-28 Thread stdp82
Yes, it is located in /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Con01/label/rh.perirhinal.label. Stefano Messaggio originale Da: gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Data: 28-mar-2013 17.46 A: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Ogg: Re: [Freesurfer] perirhinal analysis It says no such file

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_thickness qcache for xhemi surfaces

2013-03-28 Thread Ejoe Yizhou Ma
I see. Then I think I'd better just follow the instructions on the Xhemi page. Thanks! On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Douglas N Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote: Hi Cherry, what I meant was that you cannot use the qcache with xhemi. You'll need to run the mris_preproc command as listed

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: perirhinal analysis

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
If the source subject is subject_prova then you need to spec that subjet 2with --srcsubject (instead of fsaverage) doug On 03/28/2013 01:11 PM, std...@virgilio.it wrote: Yes, it is located in /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Con01/label/rh.perirhinal.label. Stefano

[Freesurfer] spmregister error

2013-03-28 Thread Borzello, Mia
Hi Freesurfers, I'm in the middle of coregistering a CT and MRI, and after running spmregister --s MGXX_SurferOutput --mov ct.mgz --reg spm.reg.dat --fsvol orig I get the error that orig.mgz is not found in COR or MGZ formats, but I have an orig.mgz file in my folder. Any help on this would be

[Freesurfer] aseg.mgz altered after auto-recon2?

2013-03-28 Thread Joshua Lee
Hi All, Am I right in reading the dev table that if I just want the aseg.mgz, (not the stats output), I only need to run auto-recon1 and auto-recon2? I need to run 250+ brains just to get the aseg volume, so if I can shave off 4-10 hours off each that would be huge.

Re: [Freesurfer] spmregister error

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
Make sure that there is an orig.mgz in $SUBJECTS_DIR/MGXX_SurferOutput/mri Also, make sure to send the full terminal output doug On 03/28/2013 02:13 PM, Borzello, Mia wrote: Hi Freesurfers, I'm in the middle of coregistering a CT and MRI, and after running spmregister --s MGXX_SurferOutput

Re: [Freesurfer] aseg.mgz altered after auto-recon2?

2013-03-28 Thread Joshua Lee
In fact, couldn't I stop after calabel if all I want is the aseg.mgz? - Josh On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Joshua Lee jki...@ucdavis.edu wrote: Hi All, Am I right in reading the dev table that if I just want the aseg.mgz, (not the stats output), I only need to run auto-recon1 and

Re: [Freesurfer] aseg.mgz altered after auto-recon2?

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Josh, yes, I think that's correct. Bruce On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Joshua Lee wrote: In fact, couldn't I stop after calabel if all I want is the aseg.mgz? - Josh On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Joshua Lee jki...@ucdavis.edu wrote: Hi All, Am I right in reading the dev

[Freesurfer] FSFAST and octave error dfor fast_selxavg3.m

2013-03-28 Thread Mario Ortega
Hi Freesurfer group, Im attempting to use FS-FAST with resting BOLD data, and I have come across the following error. I tried changing files to non .gz extension, and still have this error.. $Id: fast_selxavg3.m,v 1.100 2011/03/02 16:14:38 greve Exp $ `fast_selxavg3' is a script from the file

Re: [Freesurfer] Error from mri_concat while using QDEC

2013-03-28 Thread Tudor Popescu
Still stuck with this error in my QDEC analysis attempt, at my wit's end, could anyone help please? Thanks! Tudor On 26 March 2013 20:35, Tudor Popescu tud...@gmail.com wrote: Just giving this thread a new bump, as *again *I am receiving this error from mri_concat, upon pressing the Analyze

Re: [Freesurfer] More QDEC questions

2013-03-28 Thread Tudor Popescu
I was wondering if anybody is able to help with (any one of) these questions? That would be really helpful, as I could not find an answer on the wiki. Many thanks in advance! On 26 March 2013 20:44, Tudor Popescu tud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, My QDEC analysis ran into an error

Re: [Freesurfer] aseg.mgz altered after auto-recon2?

2013-03-28 Thread Natalie Han
Hi, Josh, I think you can run the autorecon1, subcortseg and no segstats if you don't want the statistics file (aseg.stats). Also, use -openmp 8 can speed up quite a lot by multi-threading. For a regular T1 brain image, I can the running time to get aseg.mgz in about 4-5 hours. recon-all -i

Re: [Freesurfer] FSFAST and octave error dfor fast_selxavg3.m

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
make sure to add the following lines to your ~/matlab/startup.m FSH = getenv('FREESURFER_HOME'); fshmatlab = sprintf('%s/matlab',FSH); path(path,fshmatlab); clear fshmatlab FSH; doug On 03/28/2013 03:48 PM, Mario Ortega wrote: Hi Freesurfer group, Im attempting to use FS-FAST with resting

Re: [Freesurfer] Error from mri_concat while using QDEC

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
Sorry, I've totally lost track of this thread. Are you able to run mri_concat outside of QDEC? On 03/28/2013 03:51 PM, Tudor Popescu wrote: Still stuck with this error in my QDEC analysis attempt, at my wit's end, could anyone help please? Thanks! Tudor On 26 March 2013 20:35, Tudor

Re: [Freesurfer] More QDEC questions

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 03/28/2013 03:53 PM, Tudor Popescu wrote: I was wondering if anybody is able to help with (any one of) these questions? That would be really helpful, as I could not find an answer on the wiki. Many thanks in advance! On 26 March 2013 20:44, Tudor Popescu tud...@gmail.com

Re: [Freesurfer] aseg.mgz altered after auto-recon2?

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
nope, you wouldn't benefit any further I don't think On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Joshua Lee wrote: Hey thanks, I haven't worried about multi threading typically since I just run more brains simultaneously. On my computer, I have sufficient 64 gigs RAM (64 gigs) and 24 CPU/cores (not sure which)  to

Re: [Freesurfer] specifying random effects in LME (Linear Mixed Effects models)

2013-03-28 Thread Lalonde, Francois (NIH/NIMH) [E]
Jorge, Thanks for the clarification. I will try an analysis using [1 2 3] with all of the subjects with a minimum of 4 repeats and compare the results using the same analysis on all subjects with a minimum of 3 repeats. This is worthwhile for us since we lose quite a few when excluding those

Re: [Freesurfer] specifying random effects in LME (Linear Mixed Effects models)

2013-03-28 Thread jorge luis
Hi Francois I think that you missunderstood a point of my previous answer.  You should always include ALL subjects (those with 1,2,3,4... and so on repeated measures) in your analysis whether or not the model for the covariance includes one, two, three or more random effects. What I wanted

Re: [Freesurfer] bbr problem run

2013-03-28 Thread Salil Soman
Here are the errors from the trac-all.log file I sent earlier: mri_convert ERROR: could not determine file for /mnt/glusterfs/salsoman/output/FS/Test_FS/mri/ERROR: /mnt/glusterfs/salsoman/output/TRACULA/Test_FS/dmri/xfms/tmp.bbregister.23392/fslregister/refvol.fslregister.nii mri_convert ERROR:

Re: [Freesurfer] Correlation with cortical thickness

2013-03-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
It was brought to my attention that the previous link was broken. Here is a corrected link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00618.x/abstract The paper reference is: On the misuse of residuals in ecology: regression of residuals vs. multiple regression 1. Robert P.

[Freesurfer] coregistering- ideal CT type

2013-03-28 Thread Borzello, Mia
Hi freesurfers, I working on a coregistration right now with a few different CT scans. None of them have looked that good with tkregister (for example when I used one CT scan, the electrodes didn't even show up). Is there an certain CT I need to be using? Thanks, m

Re: [Freesurfer] Linear Mixed modal

2013-03-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
Contrast creation is the same in all programs. It is based on the design matrix. Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GRECC, Bedford VA

Re: [Freesurfer] contrast matrix

2013-03-28 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:53 AM, xiangbo_2010 xiangbo_2...@126.com wrote: Dear Prof Donald McLaren I am sorry to disturb you! I have four discrete variables {factor 1(A,B), factor 2(C,D), factor 3(G,H), and gender(M,F)} and a continuous variable (age), I want to use the GLM to analysis the

[Freesurfer] odd tkregister

2013-03-28 Thread Borzello, Mia
Hi freesurfers, In using tkregister, I generated an odd (see attached): the image not only looks sheered but there is an old white box showing up. I'm not sure how to resolve this. Thanks a lot, Mia attachment: freesurfer.PNG___ Freesurfer mailing

[Freesurfer] FS version of Colin27

2013-03-28 Thread ZhiLiangLong
Hi FS experts: I am trying to map AAL template onto FS surface to create surface-based AAL template. Several days ago, i asked this question, and Garikoitz Lerma gave me some suggestions. Possibly, i think the process is like as folllows: 1. downloa the Colin27 subject in Surfrend page,