Re: [Freesurfer] CSF masks

2010-12-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
You can also use mri_binarize with the --match flag. It does the same thing, but you can give it multiple match values. There is also a --ventricles option (excludes 4th ventricle). doug Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Tommi, > > no, you need to also extract the left and right ventricles and the > in

Re: [Freesurfer] preproc-sess error in version 5.0

2010-12-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
OK, I've tracked down and fixed the error. You can get a new version from: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/flat/greve/getrunlist let me know if that works. doug Katherine Sledge Moore wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering whether there was any progress on this issue (copied > be

[Freesurfer] Partition a surface

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Dumas
Hi! I'm trying to partition a surface into a number of random but roughly-equally sized areas, and I've been using the "mris_make_face_parcellation" function to do this. Is it possible to have a finer control over the sizes of each label it generates? I only see 7 options in: $FREESURFER_HOME/lib/

[Freesurfer] Rerunning recon-all after editing aseg

2010-12-09 Thread Jennifer Addicks
Hello, I manually edited the aseg.mgz file for one of my participants, I was wondering if someone could tell me how to rerun the recon-all to ensure that these changes are incorporated in future steps and statistics files. Many thanks, Jennifer ___ Frees

Re: [Freesurfer] Rerunning recon-all after editing aseg

2010-12-09 Thread Allison Stevens
What version are you using? -- On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Jennifer Addicks wrote: > Hello, > I manually edited the aseg.mgz file for one of my participants, I was > wondering if someone could tell me how to rerun the recon-all to > ensure that these changes are incorporated in future steps and > stati

[Freesurfer] freesurfer shows different results using different systems

2010-12-09 Thread Jamaan Alghamdi
Hello, I ran freesurfer ReconAll process on 27 subjects using linux opensuse 11.3. freesurfer version is 5.0.0 (freesurfer-Linux-centos4-stable-pub-v5.0.0.tar.gz). Then I ran the same process on some of those subjects using same version of freesurfer (freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-ppc-stable-pub-v5.0.

Re: [Freesurfer] Partition a surface

2010-12-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Andrew, these are icosahedral supertessellations, which come in fixed increments. I guess if you generated some other partitioning of the sphere and saved it in .ic format it would work, but you'd have to write your own. cheers Bruce On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Andrew Dumas wrote: > Hi! > > I'm t

Re: [Freesurfer] Partition a surface

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Dumas
Thanks, Bruce. That might be a bit of a dead end since it sounds fairly involved to write a spherical partitioning scheme to a .ic file. Is there a good way to tessellate a surface with nearly-equal area labels using any other FreeSurfer tools? Thanks again! Andrew On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:46 -0

Re: [Freesurfer] Partition a surface

2010-12-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
not with our's although there are electrostatic repulsion models people use for diffusion directions you could try On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Andrew Dumas wrote: > Thanks, Bruce. That might be a bit of a dead end since it sounds fairly > involved to write a spherical partitioning scheme to a .ic file.

Re: [Freesurfer] freesurfer shows different results using different systems

2010-12-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
the results differ because the math operations are conducted identically on the two platforms. each OS uses different math libs, and probably more importantly, your processors are different (x86 vs powerpc). the qdec analysis of each platform should give the same results though, as the stats diff

[Freesurfer] Best way to detect file type

2010-12-09 Thread Michael Waskom
Hi there, Are there any Freesurfer utilities that I can use to query the file type of an image directly? i.e., more directly than mri(s)_info. The problem is that mris_info barfs when it gets an image that isn't a proper "surface" file, and I'd like something that is maximally flexible. Ideally

Re: [Freesurfer] Best way to detect file type

2010-12-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Mike, sorry, I don't think so Bruce On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Michael Waskom wrote: > Hi there, > > Are there any Freesurfer utilities that I can use to query the file type of > an image directly? i.e., more directly than mri(s)_info. The problem is > that mris_info barfs when it gets an image th

Re: [Freesurfer] Best way to detect file type

2010-12-09 Thread Nick Schmansky
not at the moment. the problem is that many of our files dont have headers to them to allow making a distinction. hopefully given some time we'd like to move to using the gifti format for surface files by default. this file format contains meta data to allow distinguishing file types. n. On Th

[Freesurfer] guidelines for spatial smoothing

2010-12-09 Thread Joakim Vinberg
Hi FreeSurfer community: I wanted to ask for general thoughts on spatial smoothing of data. In particular, some searching of the archives reveals that a bit of smoothing can help the quality of the data, as well as the inter-subject registration of significance volumes. FreeSurfer ca

Re: [Freesurfer] guidelines for spatial smoothing

2010-12-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Joakim yes, I believe your first point is true as you are implictly only smoothing within gray matter on the surface, as opposed to volume smoothing that includes CSF and even skull at larger kernel sizes. W.r.t the optimal kernel size, that's a harder question. In general you smooth to (1)

Re: [Freesurfer] guidelines for spatial smoothing

2010-12-09 Thread Joakim Vinberg
Bruce, Thanks for the excellent advice! Two immediate follow-up questions come to mind: I've read the analyses behind the matched filter theorem, and my follow-up question is if there would be any deleterious effects by using a fwhm below the size of a theorized ROI (as is often the case). I've

Re: [Freesurfer] guidelines for spatial smoothing

2010-12-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Joakim, if the kernel is too small then you will have less noise reduction than you might with a bigger kernel, but of course if it's enough to detect the effect you're looking for, then you are fine. And yes, those should use surface smoothing by default (Doug can correct me if I'm wrong)

[Freesurfer] beta.nii vs h.nii for beta value extraction

2010-12-09 Thread Emily Ward
I want to look at the beta values for all my conditions, voxel-by-voxel (in a specific ROI). I have 180 conditions, and am not looking at a specific contrast. When I open the beta.nii file produced by selxavg3-sess, and look at configure functional overlay, there are 215 "timepoints" listed (and