Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC question

2015-07-24 Thread Dr Sampada Sinha
Dear freesurfer experts, I was able to figure out the problem! I was not supposed to write the eTIV values in my .dat.table which I did and for that reasons my continuous factors were being read as 4 instead of 3. Thanks and regards, Sampada AIIMS, Delhi

Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC question

2015-07-24 Thread Dr Sampada Sinha
Dear Freesurfer experts, Thanks for your valuable input. Since, comparison with global thickness does not provide any valuable information we have decided to forego the average thickness and lh-thickness comparison and now added eTIV as another covariate with age ​ and ​ lh/rh thickess ( ​please

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about pial surface correction through Freesurfer

2015-07-24 Thread Antonin Skoch
Dear Kalyan, do you use standard pial surface reconstruction via T1 images, or optional pial surface refinement with T2/FLAIR images? I had similar problems with FLAIRpial surface refinement. The corrected pial surface appeared jagged and some areas were artificially cut out (whereas they

[Freesurfer] pial surface from one hemisphere is crossing the surface of other hemishpere

2015-07-24 Thread Antonin Skoch
Dear experts, I came several times across the situation when pial surface from one hemisphere is crossing the surface of other hemishpere (see the attached screenshot). Is there any way how to correct for this error? Regards, Antonin Skoch___

[Freesurfer] white surface leaking from the brain

2015-07-24 Thread Antonin Skoch
Dear experts, is here any way how to improve white surface estimation in situations when this surface leaks from the brain to the outer non-brain structures? (See the attached screenshot). This problem consequently affects pial surface estimation, which is not correctable by FLAIRpial

[Freesurfer] percent signal change

2015-07-24 Thread Mariam Sood
Dear Doug, I am using the FSL-Freesurfer pipeline, with single subject analysis done in Feat and group analysis done using mri_glmfit. Is there a way I can calculate percent signal change from the group analysis output (or any other method which combines single subject output)? Many thanks,

Re: [Freesurfer] if: Expression Syntax

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
can you run register-sess -debug -s nmasa_031_130412 -d /autofs/cluster/iaslab/NMASA/mri/func/encoding -fsd bold -dof 6 -per-run -update | tee fordoug2.log and send me fourdoug2.log doug On 7/24/15 10:22 AM, Morenikeji Adebayo wrote: Hi there, Attached is the log file from running:

Re: [Freesurfer] Repost: problem with mri_label2label - large amount of holes

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
what is your command line? What do you mean by one anatomy to another? On 7/24/15 9:26 AM, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: *Caspar M. Schwiedrzik* cschwie...@rockefeller.edu mailto:cschwie...@rockefeller.edu Date: Thursday, July 16, 2015 Subject:

Re: [Freesurfer] if: Expression Syntax

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
I think there is something wrong with the contents of /autofs/cluster/iaslab/NMASA/mri/func/encoding/nmasa_031_130412/subjectname It looks like it is cd nmasa_031_130412, probably it should be nmasa_031_130412 ? On 7/24/15 11:58 AM, Morenikeji Adebayo wrote: Hi Doug, fordoug2 is attached.

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_extract_label output

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
I don't think this is possible with that command. If you know how to program, you can write a loop that would easily do it. doug On 7/23/15 2:52 PM, Michele Cavallari wrote: Hi, I would need to extract multiple labels from the aparc+aseg labelmap. I am using the mri_extract_label command, but

Re: [Freesurfer] if: Expression Syntax

2015-07-24 Thread Morenikeji Adebayo
Hi Doug,fordoug2 is attached.Thanks,Keji fordoug2.log Description: Binary data On Jul 24, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Douglas Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: can you run register-sess -debug -s nmasa_031_130412 -d /autofs/cluster/iaslab/NMASA/mri/func/encoding -fsd

Re: [Freesurfer] paradigm file

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
It should be possible to write a program to do it, but you'd have to know how to program. On 7/24/15 8:12 AM, Thục Trinh wrote: Hi, In our experiment, one onset trial will be lasted for 12 seconds, but if subject can give the answer sooner within 12 seconds, the next offset trial (baseline)

Re: [Freesurfer] if: Expression Syntax

2015-07-24 Thread Morenikeji Adebayo
Oh excellent, you are correct! I’ll update the file and try re-running selxavg. Thanks, Keji On Jul 24, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Douglas Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: I think there is something wrong with the contents of

Re: [Freesurfer] [FreeSurfer] add to color lut for aparc+aseg.mgz

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
For surface ROIs, you'll have to create a new annotation using mris_divide_parcellation, the use mri_aparc2aseg to generate a new file like aparc+aseg.mgz doug On 7/23/15 5:09 PM, joseph veliz wrote: Hello FreeSurfer world, We need to subdivide regions of the forebrain that FreeSurfer does

Re: [Freesurfer] if: Expression Syntax

2015-07-24 Thread Morenikeji Adebayo
Hi there,Attached is the log file from running:preproc-sess -debug -s nmasa_031_130412 -fsd bold -stc up -surfacefsaverage lhrh -mni305 -fwhm 5 -per-run | tee fordoug.logI got more errors when I ran:preproc-sess -debug -s nmasa_031_130412 -fsd bold -stc up -surfacefsaverage lhrh -mni305 -fwhm 5

Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC question

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
I don't know what is going on with that, but one thing you should do is to normalize the eTIV (ie, remove it's mean and divide by the std dev). Also, why are you including eTIV in the first place? Thickness does not change with head size, only volume and surface area. doug On 7/24/15 2:34

Re: [Freesurfer] Freeview Recon Edit Tool Unavailable

2015-07-24 Thread Z K
You need to install development version of freeview. Instructions can be found on this page in the Freeview dev version section: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download -Zeke On 07/23/2015 12:57 PM, Gomar, Jesus wrote: Hi Freesurfers, We are trying to use the Recon Edit tool in

Re: [Freesurfer] percent signal change

2015-07-24 Thread Mariam Sood
Dear Doug, Thank you for the reply. I want to use the percent change in signal as a measure of effect size for various regions of interest, so would ideally like an average percent signal change in that ROI. I want it at the group data though. Much appreciate your suggestions. Many thanks,

Re: [Freesurfer] [FreeSurfer] multicore recons

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Joseph if you have lots to get through you might be better off running two with 4 cores at a time. Speed increase is pretty good through 4 last time Nick tested, but then the benefits fall off a bit Bruce On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, joseph veliz wrote: What is the best set up to utilize the

[Freesurfer] [FreeSurfer] multicore recons

2015-07-24 Thread joseph veliz
What is the best set up to utilize the multicore capability of freesurfer? Should we open a seperate terminal for each subject and run 3 simultaneous recons with the -openmp 8, on each recon command line? Or is there a more efficient way of utilizing 8 cores and 16 gb of memory? thanks so much

Re: [Freesurfer] percent signal change

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
what kind of percent output do you want? FSL does a global normalization, effectively computing percent change (actually 10th of percent change I think). If you want voxel-wise percent, then it is more difficult. On 7/24/15 11:11 AM, Mariam Sood wrote: Dear Doug, I am using the

Re: [Freesurfer] Create brain outline from pial surface

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
you can use mri_morphometry and use the close operation to get rid of some holes On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Liang Wang wrote: Thanks Bruce. I applied mri_binarize to brainmask.mgz with specified threshold and got many holes in the mask. In addition, brainmask.mgz includes the cerebellum. I would

Re: [Freesurfer] bad registration using mri_vol2vol

2015-07-24 Thread Douglas Greve
Sorry, I've lost track of what is going on here. How was lh.amyg.faceaw_func.anatconstr.p05.5.3CRFH.n70.mgz created? On 7/23/15 12:08 PM, Barbour, Tracy,M.D. wrote: Thank you Doug I tried the way you suggested and the registration actually looks worse. I also tried: mri_label2vol

Re: [Freesurfer] Dividing Entire Scan By Intensity Factor Create Overlay Surface

2015-07-24 Thread Lakhani, Bimal
Hello, I just wanted to follow-up on this request. If it is not possible to do these things, that would also be helpful to know so I don’t continue to attempt different variations of the options! If any more information is provided to make the questions clearer, please let me know what you

Re: [Freesurfer] [FreeSurfer] multicore recons

2015-07-24 Thread joseph veliz
so I should run one subject per 4 cores by using -openmp 4 for each of the two subjects being re-conned simultaneously? On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bruce Fischl fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hi Joseph if you have lots to get through you might be better off running two with 4 cores

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about pial surface correction through Freesurfer

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Antonin that's a good point and something we probably need to fix. Bruce On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Antonin Skoch wrote: Dear Kalyan, do you use standard pial surface reconstruction via T1 images, or optional pial surface refinement with T2/FLAIR images? I had similar problems with

Re: [Freesurfer] Question about pial surface correction through Freesurfer

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
p.s. although in this case I think it won't hurt to always pass that parameter since it is only used for the flair/pial stuff On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Antonin Skoch wrote: Dear Kalyan, do you use standard pial surface reconstruction via T1 images, or optional pial surface refinement with

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface from one hemisphere is crossing the surface of other hemishpere

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Antonin not sure - if you upload the subject I'll take a look Bruce On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Antonin Skoch wrote: Dear experts, I came several times across the situation when pial surface from one hemisphere is crossing the surface of other hemishpere (see the attached screenshot). Is

Re: [Freesurfer] white surface leaking from the brain

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Antonin I think that the current flair/pial stuff will correct small errors in the wm placement, but this one is probably too large and is really a skull stripping problem. Have you tried gcuts? If the dura is attached to the wm then the mris_make_surfaces step will not usually fix it.

Re: [Freesurfer] Create brain outline from pial surface

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
you could try binarizing the brainmask.mgz cheers Bruce On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Liang Wang wrote: Hi folks, I would like to create a brain outline based on the generated pial surface. This outline will completely cover the whole cortex (ignoring gyrus and sulcus info) and is treated as a brain

Re: [Freesurfer] Repost: problem with mri_label2label - large amount of holes

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Caspar we tried to replicate this and couldn't. Can you upload the subject(s) involved in this and send us the exact command line that shows the problem? cheers Bruce On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Caspar M. Schwiedrzik

Re: [Freesurfer] [FreeSurfer] add to color lut for aparc+aseg.mgz

2015-07-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
yes, I guess so On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, joseph veliz wrote: We need to subdivide regions of the VentralDC that would carry onto the aparc+aseg.mgz. Would this involve just editing the aseg.mgz? On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Douglas Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: For

Re: [Freesurfer] if: Expression Syntax

2015-07-24 Thread Morenikeji Adebayo
That fixed it! Thanks for all your help - I appreciate it. Keji On Jul 24, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Morenikeji Adebayo k...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Oh excellent, you are correct! I’ll update the file and try re-running selxavg. Thanks, Keji On Jul 24, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Douglas Greve

Re: [Freesurfer] [FreeSurfer] add to color lut for aparc+aseg.mgz

2015-07-24 Thread joseph veliz
We need to subdivide regions of the VentralDC that would carry onto the aparc+aseg.mgz. Would this involve just editing the aseg.mgz? On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Douglas Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: For surface ROIs, you'll have to create a new annotation using

Re: [Freesurfer] Create brain outline from pial surface

2015-07-24 Thread Liang Wang
Thanks Bruce. I applied mri_binarize to brainmask.mgz with specified threshold and got many holes in the mask. In addition, brainmask.mgz includes the cerebellum. I would like to only create the brain (cerebral cortex) outline based on the pial surface. Thanks. Best, Liang -- Liang Wang, PhD

[Freesurfer] Error: make roi_paths did not complete successfully

2015-07-24 Thread Philip Deming
Hi Freesurfer Support, I've seen this issue brought up in the message archives, but I haven't found a solution yet. When running the recon-all -localGI command, I get the following errors, which result in the message: make_roi_paths did not complete successfully! Error in dsearchn (line 79)

[Freesurfer] Create brain outline from pial surface

2015-07-24 Thread Liang Wang
Hi folks, I would like to create a brain outline based on the generated pial surface. This outline will completely cover the whole cortex (ignoring gyrus and sulcus info) and is treated as a brain outer surface on which some values in the brain could be projected. I tried mris_expand, but it

Re: [Freesurfer] paradigm file

2015-07-24 Thread dgw
Hi Thuc, For similar reasons, I program all of my stimulus programs to write a par file for each run. I recommend you program your stimulus program to do the same. HTH D On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Thục Trinh thuctrinh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In our experiment, one onset trial will be

Re: [Freesurfer] [FreeSurfer] multicore recons

2015-07-24 Thread Z K
Yes. That is correct. On Jul 24, 2015, at 7:06 PM, joseph veliz josephveli...@gmail.com wrote: so I should run one subject per 4 cores by using -openmp 4 for each of the two subjects being re-conned simultaneously? On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bruce Fischl

Re: [Freesurfer] paradigm file

2015-07-24 Thread Thục Trinh
Hi, In our experiment, one onset trial will be lasted for 12 seconds, but if subject can give the answer sooner within 12 seconds, the next offset trial (baseline) will come up. The response time will be recorded. So if I have 100 subjects, I have to create 100 paradigm files manually. It will