Sorry, I'll have to defer to Bruce, who wrote the code.
doug

On 12/17/2012 11:24 AM, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrote:
> OK the Doug,
>
> I know which are the voxels contained into a ROI. From all of them I 
> know the norm.mgz and the brainmask.mgz values, because I'm assuming 
> that FS always work with the brainmask.mgz to know the actual voxel 
> intensity, as indicated when running mri_segstats.
>
> I can easily calculate the mean of the norm voxel intensities, do I 
> need anything else?
>
> Could you tell me the formula to compute the PV?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Gabriel.
>
>
>
>
> El 17/12/12, *Douglas N Greve * <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> escribió:
>> The PV is done based on intensities. For each voxel an the boundary of
>> an ROI, the voxel intensity is assumed to be a weighted summation of the
>> the average intensities in each ROI. Knowing the average intensities in
>> the ROIs and the actual intensity of the voxel, the PV can be computed.
>> doug
>>
>>
>> On 12/17/2012 09:59 AM, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrote:
>> > Thanks Doug,
>> >
>> > In my case I did as you said but as Bruce recommend use the wmparc, so
>> > the voxels less than 4000, and = 5001 were left , and more than or
>> > equal to 4000, and =5002 were right.
>> >
>> > So different approach but I think would be the same, isn't it?
>> >
>> > Can you explain to me how FS makes the PV correction on the output
>> > volumes in aseg.stats?
>> >
>> >
>> > Best Regards,
>> > Gabriel.
>> >
>> >
>> > El 13/12/12, *Douglas N Greve * <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> escribió:
>> >>
>> >> Gabriel, the way I've done it is to just assign WMSA to left or right
>> >> based on the column number of the WMSA voxel. If it is less than 128,
>> >> then it is right (78) if it is greater than 128 it is left (79). It's
>> >> not perfect, but it is correct in the vast majority of cases.
>> >> doug
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 12/12/2012 01:56 PM, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrote:
>> >> >Thanks Bruce,
>> >> >
>> >> >The problem is that for this set of subjects I only have the T1s,
>> >> anyways I would like to give a try onto the tools for WMSA, since I
>> >> have T2 from some subjects.
>> >> >
>> >> >On the other hand, If I'm right the way to do the assignment on
>> >> matlab, would be something like opening the mgz, finding their
>> >> positions and look which are the neighbors right?
>> >> >If so, I would like to not assign just the neighbor voxel, as this
>> >> might bias the assignment, I'm guessing that something like the
>> >> assignment done during the aparc+aseg.mgz creation (using GM
>> >> parcelation to map GM labels to the wm voxels - mri_aparc2aseg)
>> >> should be a correct way to do so. Can you point me to an article or
>> >> explain to me how this works indeed, and how the decision to the
>> >> belonging voxel is made, I think I know the basis, but not enough to
>> >> make my own script.
>> >> >
>> >> >If I do not understand bad, is something like, you take a voxel a
>> >> look to some contiguous voxels till you get into a point where all
>> >> the contiguous voxels are too far from the seed, and are surrounded
>> >> by lots of voxels belonging to other areas. I'm not quite sure about
>> >> the decision about when to stop the search. I really think that the
>> >> method like the implemented in the mri_apar2aseg is the perfect 
>> solution.
>> >> >
>> >> >Regards,
>> >> >Gabriel
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >El 12/12/12, *Bruce Fischl * <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> escribió:
>> >> >>then I would either use TRACULA (if you have DWI) or the wmparc to
>> >> generate ROIs. I meant that you could count whether there are more lh
>> >> or rh wm labels neighboring each one to figure out which hemi they 
>> are in
>> >> >>
>> >> >>cheers
>> >> >>Bruce
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>>Yes I did loo at the total WH-hypointensities(77), and substract
>> >> them without a problem.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>What do you mean with lateralize them based on neighboring labels?
>> >> How can I perform such thing on FS?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Actually I'm interested in knowing to wich specific label o region
>> >> they are.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Bests,
>> >> >>>Gabriel
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>El 12/12/12, Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> escribió:
>> >> >>>      Hi Gabriel
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>      we don't lateralize them by default, so look for
>> >> WM_hypointensities (77) instead. It would be pretty easy to
>> >> >>>      lateralize them based on neighboring labels.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>      cheers
>> >> >>>      Bruce
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>      On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>      >
>> >> >>>      >Dear Freesurfers,
>> >> >>>      >
>> >> >>>      >I'm looking for a way to compute the left and right
>> >> WM-hypointensities, as volume values or images. They always
>> >> >>>      appear empty in
>> >> >>>      >the aseg.stats, and the corresponding segs No 78 & 79 do
>> >> not appear in the aseg.mgz, and I'm a bit lost with it.
>> >> >>>      >
>> >> >>>      >Can any one help me?
>> >> >>>      >
>> >> >>>      >Best Regards,
>> >> >>>      >Gabriel.
>> >> >>>      >
>> >> >>>      >
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