You are right, the missing slices mainly located in the middle of the
brain. So I guess the problem comes from our grid engine....

I tried use -nf=3, but the process fails all the time. I guess it too
demanding for the computer

Thank you,


Su


2013/10/16 Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]>

>  Do you know that your cluster is not killing some of the jobs?  Which
> slices are missing?  If it is mainly the middle ones, I'd suspect that they
> are exceeding some limit for the cluster.
>
>  For HCP data you can successfully model 3 fibers (--nf=3) and should use
> the -g option with FSL 5.0.5.  I'd leave fudge and bi at their defaults
> unless you have a reason to change them.  --model=2 is correct.
>
>  Peace,
>
>  Matt.
>
>   From: Huang Su-Chun <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:27 PM
> To: Matt Glasser <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stamatios Sotiropoulos <[email protected]>, "
> [email protected]" <[email protected]>
>
> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] BedpostX failed
>
>   It happened on subject 100307 and 105115. I am running the job in a
> grid engine.
> The command line I use is listed below:
>
>  bedpostx
> /NAS_II/Public-Data/Parcellation/Q2_released_data/105115/105115_Diffusion_preproc/T1w/Diffusion
> --nf=2 --fudge=1  --bi=1000 --model=2
>
>  Thank you,
>
>  Su
>
>
>
> 2013/10/15 Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]>
>
>>  What subject is this?
>>
>>  What command line did you call bedpostx with?
>>
>>  Are you running this on your local machine or in some cluster
>> environment?
>>
>>  Note that a new version of FSL was just released with improvements to
>> bedpostx that you need to correctly process HCP data (not fixing missing
>> slices, but correcting for the effects of gradient nonlinearities on the
>> bmatrix), so I highly recommend you update.
>>
>>  Peace,
>>
>>  Matt.
>>
>>   From: Huang Su-Chun <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 6:12 PM
>> To: Stamatios Sotiropoulos <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] BedpostX failed
>>
>>   Hi Stam,
>>
>>  I checked the bedpostX results and it didn't have the same number of
>> slices as the input data. It caused problem when I want to to probabilistic
>> tracking. And this missing slices problem happens quite a lot!
>>
>>  Thank you,
>>
>>  Su
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/15 Stamatios Sotiropoulos <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>   Is it just the message that worries you? Have you checked whether
>>> bedpostx results have the same number of slices as the input data? Notice
>>> that the diffusion data are transferred to T1 space and lots of
>>> inferior/superior slices may be empty.
>>>
>>>  Cheers
>>> Stam
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 15 Oct 2013, at 04:47, Huang Su-Chun <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hi dear experts,
>>>
>>>  I am running bedpostX on the HCP diffusion data, however, it seems
>>> that sometimes (60% of chance) the bedpostX ended before finishing all the
>>> slices. Take the HCP data for example, it should have 145 slices, but the
>>> betpostX stopped at slice 103 then show a message said "All slice
>>> processed."
>>>
>>>  Does anyone know where the problem might be? Thank you!
>>>
>>>  Cheers,
>>>
>>>  Su
>>>
>>>  --
>>> Su-Chun Huang
>>> Research Scientist
>>> Integrated Brain Imaging Center
>>> Department of Radiology
>>> University of Washington
>>> Seattle, WA 98195
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>>
>>
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