[Freesurfer] mean cortical thickness on N ROIs

2014-08-20 Thread elisa veronese
Dear FreeSurfers, suppose I should estimate the mean cortical thickness on a number N of ROIs (for instance, the left inferior temporal, the left middletemporal, and the left superior temporal). How would you suggest me to proceed? - Just performing a simple average of the 3 cortical thickness

[Freesurfer] tracula update link not working

2014-08-20 Thread Kirstie Whitaker
Hi, I apologise if this is only on my end but I can't seem to download any of the updates from http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Tracula. I was successful last week so I wonder if something's changed? Thanks Kx -- Kirstie Whitaker, PhD Research Associate Department of Psychiatry

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: mpr2mni305 failed error

2014-08-20 Thread Francesco Deleo
Hi all! Sorry for my late answer but I went on holiday and I didn't have access to my mail. The background is normal in original dicoms and it is not an avarage of more than one run. The problem I reported was solved in all cases converting dicoms to nifti with dcm2nii and using the oriented

[Freesurfer] labelled tissue segmentation mask back to native

2014-08-20 Thread Alejandra Machado
Hello, I was wondering if FS has an output mask (labelled volume) for each tissue types (gm+wm+venctricular_csf) that I can then turn into each subject's native space. I understand I can use aseg.mgz or even aparc+aseg.mgz and then run mri_label2vol. But then how do I get correspondent labelling

Re: [Freesurfer] tracula update link not working

2014-08-20 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Kirstie - This was a glitch related to yesterday's storage cluster maintence. It's been fixed now, so please try again. a.y On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Kirstie Whitaker wrote: Hi, I apologise if this is only on my end but I can't seem to download any of the updates from

Re: [Freesurfer] tracula update link not working

2014-08-20 Thread Kirstie Whitaker
Yep! Working now - thank you very much :) Kx On 20 August 2014 12:23, Anastasia Yendiki ayend...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Kirstie - This was a glitch related to yesterday's storage cluster maintence. It's been fixed now, so please try again. a.y On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Kirstie

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit

2014-08-20 Thread Ali Radaideh
Dear Don, Thanks alot for the attachment. I have installed it as recommended and tried the following and I started to get the error message below imaging@imaging-ThinkCentre-20:~$ freeview bash: /usr/local/freesurfer/bin/freeview: /bin/tcsh: bad interpreter: Permission denied ​When using sudo

[Freesurfer] Some notes on getting Tracula to work for newbies

2014-08-20 Thread Kirstie Whitaker
Hi Anastasia and the freesurfer list, I've been working on getting the latest version of tracula to run and I thought I would post here the errors that I've worked around. It's all been based on looking through the mailing list archives but I thought it would be useful to add them here all in

Re: [Freesurfer] Some notes on getting Tracula to work for newbies

2014-08-20 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Thanks a lot, Kirstie. Nice job on finding solutions in the archives! You are a model user :) On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Kirstie Whitaker wrote: Hi Anastasia and the freesurfer list, I've been working on getting the latest version of tracula to run and I thought I would post here the errors

[Freesurfer] Creating the FSDG file for more than one discrete variable

2014-08-20 Thread Isotalus, Hanna
Dear Freesurfer gurus, I am trying to create an FSDG file for my data set and I have a question regarding discrete variables. So say this is my data: Two discrete variables (two with two levels, one with eight), one continuous variable. I'm interested in one discrete variable

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer platform/performance questions

2014-08-20 Thread Lazarevich, Alexander
Thanks for the reply Zeke. I understand what you are saying about the VM. So my question is now, how do we help our users to optimize FreeSurfer for their large scale data sets? We have a couple of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64bit machines with the newest FreeSurfer installed

[Freesurfer] Open MP parallel processing scaling factor?

2014-08-20 Thread O'Shea,Andrew
Hello all, Traditionally I have only processed FS data using a single core per person, but processing many people at once. Now we have caught up with the backlog of scans, we have a continuos trickle of scans coming in 1 by 1. I was wondering if anyone has tested how the speed-up of open-mp

Re: [Freesurfer] Creating the FSDG file for more than one discrete variable

2014-08-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Hanna, use #2 doug On 08/20/2014 10:36 AM, Isotalus, Hanna wrote: Dear Freesurfer gurus, I am trying to create an FSDG file for my data set and I have a question regarding discrete variables. So say this is my data: Two discrete variables (two with two levels, one with eight), one

Re: [Freesurfer] Custom aseg Color Lookup Table

2014-08-20 Thread Douglas N Greve
Try loading aseg.mgz as the aux volume so you can see the number at a particular voxel. If the color is not correct, see what the number is and what it corresponds to in the LUT doug On 08/19/2014 05:57 PM, C.P. Frost wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use Freeview to display subcortical regions

Re: [Freesurfer] Open MP parallel processing scaling factor?

2014-08-20 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
hi andrew, i haven't done many systematic comparisons but there are a few practical considerations to take into account. in recon-all, i believe a few steps are affected by the openmp option and that creates resource underutilization. processors run idle when those steps are not being run. in my

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit

2014-08-20 Thread Krieger, Donald N.
Hi Ali, Sorry it didn’t work “out of the box.” It was kind of a long shot. That interpreter is for an i86 64bit system running linux. If you are running a Mac or have a 32bit os or … it will be a problem. If it’s the right one, it needs to be enabled for execution with the following command:

[Freesurfer] problem downloading freesurfer

2014-08-20 Thread gamaliel huerta urrea
Hi I tried for three days download freesurfer even today but pressing the download link in http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download These are fallen and message This web page is not available I have understood that the site was in maintenance, however the links do not even respond.

Re: [Freesurfer] Some notes on getting Tracula to work for newbies

2014-08-20 Thread Kirstie Whitaker
On 20 August 2014 14:27, Anastasia Yendiki ayend...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Thanks a lot, Kirstie. Nice job on finding solutions in the archives! You are a model user :) Thank youalthough unfortunately not quite the best user - I still have problems... I think I lied in my earlier

Re: [Freesurfer] problem downloading freesurfer

2014-08-20 Thread Tirrell, Lee
It appears to work for me. Try this link to download directly: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0/freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub-v5.3.0.dmg Once downloaded, go here for installation notes: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MacOsInstall This should work on OSX

[Freesurfer] Creating lower resolution surface models

2014-08-20 Thread Nicholas Heugel
I am running analysis where I am taking fMRI data using Freesurfer to project it onto the cortical surface and load it into Brainstorm to use as a constraint on the source reconstruction. I am able to do all the steps just fine, the problem I am encountering is that Freesurfer creates a surface

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_tessellate: max vertices 1000000 exceeded

2014-08-20 Thread Z K
Hello, The latest version of mri_tessellate can be downloaded using this the following link: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/fsdev/zkaufman/mri_tessellate It would be wise to backup your existing version befor overwriting it with the version contained in the link above.

[Freesurfer] Fwd: Re: Custom aseg Color Lookup Table

2014-08-20 Thread C.P. Frost
Thanks for the reply, Doug. The main problem is that areas not included in my custom table appear colored in freeview. These areas' numbers correctly correspond to their indices on the default FreeSurferColorLUT, although they don't appear labeled in the info panel, nor are they listed to the

Re: [Freesurfer] Open MP parallel processing scaling factor?

2014-08-20 Thread Z K
Andrew, I basically agree with everything Satra is saying. Just as an added piece if info, Ive included a chart which did a systematic study of recon-all processing times with different number of cpus in parallel. These results are a bit old (and might be for low-res data) but the general

[Freesurfer] Fwd: Re: Open MP parallel processing scaling factor?

2014-08-20 Thread Z K
Opps... I forgot the attachment. Here it is. -Zeke Original Message Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Open MP parallel processing scaling factor? Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:24:14 -0400 From: Z K zkauf...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu To: Freesurfer support list freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu,

[Freesurfer] bbregister for MRA

2014-08-20 Thread SHAHIN NASR
Hi Surfers I want to use bbregister to register my MRA scans to the structural scans. The first attempts by using these parameters came out OK but not perfect: bbregister --s Subject_ID --mov MRA.nii --init-fsl --reg register.dat --bold However, there are obvious problems around frontal

[Freesurfer] Extracting Group Means for Cortical Thickness

2014-08-20 Thread Bronwyn Overs
Dear Mailing List, I have just completed a QDEC (v5.1.0) analysis of the following design: Measure:thickness Smoothing (FWHM):10 Hemisphere:lh 2 Discrete (Fixed Factors):group (2 levels, AtRisk Control) and gene (2 levels, CC TTorTC) 1 Nuisance Factos:age On

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_tessellate: max vertices 1000000 exceeded

2014-08-20 Thread Bruce Fischl
Thanks Zeke Bruce On Aug 20, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Z K zkauf...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hello, The latest version of mri_tessellate can be downloaded using this the following link: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/fsdev/zkaufman/mri_tessellate It would be wise to

Re: [Freesurfer] no improvement for recon-all result after edits

2014-08-20 Thread Jidan Zhong
Hi I am reposting my message, hoping someone can give me some hint to get my problem solved. Thanks in advance!! On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Jidan Zhong jid...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Freesurfer experts, I was doing some manual editing on our subjects which are patients with lesions. I