could you make the name more verbose? Maybe something like: compute_and_print_the_coordinates_of_the_vertex_closest_to_a_given_talairach_point?
good job Krish, Bruce On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Krish Subramaniam wrote: > Hi Ali > > I've enabled a command in the latest dev build which does the following. This > only prints the vertex without any other details. > > % print_nearest_vertex_to_talairach_point -53.34 -7.81 -4.5 > surfer: vertex 86131 > > Let me know your platform by an email off the list ( type freesurfer when you > are in the environment and paste the last line) and I'll send you the latest > version. > > Regarding your questions: > > 1. tcl script is the best way to get relevant output for long list of > coordinates > 2. Unfortunately, most of the tcl commands invoke compiled C code, so you > can't modify the "select_talairach_point" tcl function. > > -Krish > > > On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Arslan, Ali wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm trying to go over a long list of talairach coordinates and to find >> their vertex indices. >> I did a bit of research and saw a previous question on the same topic: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12550.html >> >> So I went on to write a tcl script in order to write the corresponding >> vertex indices to a file. But the problem is, the function >> selec_talairach_point gives 4 successive outputs, therefore I can't parse >> the vertex number because it gets overwritten. >> such as these: >> >> % select_talairach_point 66.18 -14.56 39.06 >> surfer: vertex 68342: dist = 0.002702 >> % surfer: dmin=0.0027, vno=68342, x=43.6843, y=-11.1042, z=35.8562 >> % surfer: curv=0.000000, fs=0.000000 >> % surfer: val=0.000000, val2=0.000000 >> % surfer: amp=0.000000, angle=0.000000 deg (0.000000) >> % 0 (0 0 0) >> >> >> My questions are: >> 1) is there an easier way of doing this besides writing a tcl script? >> 2) how can I access the function "selec_talairach_point" to modify it >> temporarily (so that it outputs ONLY vertex indices and not anything else) >> 3) is there a way to parse the output of this function in tcl? >> >> Ali B. Arslan >> Graduate Student in Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freesurfer mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list [email protected] https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.
