You can also run defect-seg to create segementations and annotations of 
the defects. This can be quite handy when tracking down defects. Run it 
with --help to get info on how to use it.

doug

Bruce Fischl wrote:
> Hi Yang,
>
> if you send us the surfaces and the wm.mgz/brainmask.mgz we'll take a 
> look. You need to find the reason for the topological defect in the wm.mgz. 
> By defition to correct a defect the orig (green) surface can no longer 
> follow the boundary of the wm.mgz. If it did it would have a defect! You 
> can also look at the orig.nofix and/or the inflated.nofix to see where 
> the defect is in that region
>
> cheers
> Bruce
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Yang Liu wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> I followed the tutorial at
>> http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/WhiteMatterEdits.
>>
>> But I couldn't find similar examples as mine in the tutorial.
>> I don't really understand why don't the yellow and green surfaces follow the
>> boundary of wm.mgz, especially the boundary is well defined in the slices.
>>
>>
>> Yang
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Bruce Fischl
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Not without scrolling through the wm volume. You will need to edit it. Have
>>> you done the troubleshooting tutorial?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:48 PM, Yang Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>
>>> Do you know how to fix it?
>>>
>>> Yang
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Bruce Fischl <<[email protected]>
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Then I must be a topologica defect
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Yang Liu < <[email protected]>
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>>
>>>> Yes. It is Macaque. There is no aseg.
>>>>
>>>> Yang
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Sebastian Moeller 
>>>> <<[email protected]><[email protected]>
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 19:12 , Bruce Fischl wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Does the aseg label that as ventricle?
>>>>>>             
>>>>>         This pretty much looks like macaque data, so I think there is no
>>>>> aseg for that. I would love to be corrected on that point though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best
>>>>>        Sebastian
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Yang Liu < 
>>>>>> <[email protected]><[email protected]>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Hi Khoa,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for your reply.
>>>>>>> I attached the snapshot of the same slice with brainmask.mgz. You can
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> see clearly that the green and yellow surface at the wrong regions. They
>>>>> doesn't look like  ventricles to me.
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> It is strange that even the green surface doesn't follow the original
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> wm.mgz, though the wm.mgz as attached in the previous email
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> has very well defined boundaries near the wrong regions.
>>>>>>> Any idea to correct this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yang
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Khoa Nguyen 
>>>>>>> <<[email protected]><[email protected]>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Hi Yang,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To edit the pial surface, you want to use brainmask.mgz.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As for the wm.mgz, you're right in that control points isn't the
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> solution. Control points are to fix intensity problem, but you can also 
>>>>> add
>>>>> wm voxels manually to fix any wm defects. In this case, adding that many
>>>>> control points would probably make the situation worse because the entire
>>>>> area will brighten and that would potentially extend the surfaces to 
>>>>> include
>>>>> grey matter.
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Is the area you pointed out by any chance the ventricle? If it is,
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> then it doesn't matter that the white surface includes it. It's hard to 
>>>>> tell
>>>>> with just this image. Do you mind sending a snapshot of the brainmask.mgz
>>>>> for this slice?
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Yang Liu wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Freesurferers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am correcting some defects in the white matter surface (yellow) and
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> the
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> pial surfaces (red). But I am not very sure of which volume I should
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> work
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> on.
>>>>>>> I did several experiments on editing one volume at a time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For pial (the red) surface, I edited brain.mgz first. I found it
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> corrected
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> some pial defects.
>>>>>>> However, I found one previous post here said the volume that should be
>>>>>>> edited is brainmask.mgz.
>>>>>>> So the second time I only changed brainmask.mgz. It also works.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, which one should I work on?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> brian.mgz or brainmask.mgz?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, for defects on the white matter surface (the yellow one),  I
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> found the
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> surface doesn't follow the white matter segmentation closely, although
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> I
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> have a good wm.mgz. (see attached image).
>>>>>>> At the location pointed by the red arrow in the attached image, both
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> the
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> green and yellow sufaces includes a lot of gray matter at the
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> location. It
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> is strange that the wm.mgz has a very well defined slice in that
>>>>>>> neighborhood.
>>>>>>> I am familiar with situations where the surfaces miss a few white
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> matter
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> pixels, for which I can add a few control points to improve it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How shall I edit wm.mgz to correct this?  Adding more control points
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> is not
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> a solution, apparently.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yang
>>>>>>>
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