Re: [Freesurfer] "mri_convert"

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas Greve
How many files are in the dicom folder? Try copying one of them to a different folder and running it on that one file (it will only be a test, the output file will not be correct) On 9/9/14 1:12 PM, Nooshin Zadeh wrote: Yes. It just hang there. I even let it run for few days! and no outco

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Sim output / sig.masked.mgh

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
Yes, you can just run /path/to/your/local/copy/mri_glmfit-sim On 09/09/2014 05:49 PM, Eryilmaz, Huseyin Hamdi wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I don't seem to have the permission to change the contents of that folder. So > I can't really copy it over. Is it possible to run this locally? I'm working > o

[Freesurfer] New deadline for the Alzheimer's Disease Sage/DREAM Challenge!

2014-09-09 Thread Arno Klein
We have extended the Alzheimer's Disease Sage/DREAM Challenge #1 submission period to October 17th -- Time to enter! https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn2290704 Of particular interest to the members of this mailing list is subchallenge 3, which leverages brain imaging ​ ( FreeSurfer was used in

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Sim output / sig.masked.mgh

2014-09-09 Thread Eryilmaz, Huseyin Hamdi
Hi Doug, I don't seem to have the permission to change the contents of that folder. So I can't really copy it over. Is it possible to run this locally? I'm working on a linux workstation at Martinos and when I ask the source, it gives me that folder: >>which mri_glmfit-sim /usr/local/freesur

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Sim output / sig.masked.mgh

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
You can just copy it over the old one (but make a backup of it first) On 09/09/2014 04:21 PM, Eryilmaz, Huseyin Hamdi wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Thanks for your reply. I can certainly test it. Could you tell me how I can > run this new 'mri_glmfit-sim' you sent me? The original 'mri_glmfit-sim' that

Re: [Freesurfer] Monte Carlo Sim output / sig.masked.mgh

2014-09-09 Thread Eryilmaz, Huseyin Hamdi
Hi Doug, Thanks for your reply. I can certainly test it. Could you tell me how I can run this new 'mri_glmfit-sim' you sent me? The original 'mri_glmfit-sim' that I use is under '/usr/local/freesurfer/stable5_0_0/bin/' Best, Hamdi From: freesurfer-bou

Re: [Freesurfer] "mri_convert"

2014-09-09 Thread Nooshin Zadeh
Yes. It just hang there. I even let it run for few days! and no outcome. On Sep 9, 2014 12:19 PM, "Bruce Fischl" wrote: > Hi Nooshin > > does it just hang there? How long do you let it run? > Bruce > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Nooshin Zadeh wrote: > > Dear FreeSurfer experts, >> >> I get a new message

[Freesurfer] FW: Most recent/complete FreeSurfer + Patches?

2014-09-09 Thread Gurney, Jenny
Hi guys! We would like to install the latest and greatest FreeSurfer on the processing cluster used by the CNDA at Washington University. We're thinking about installing the 5.3.0-HCP, and then over that, the released 5.3.0 patches. We're looking for verification that doing the install this w

Re: [Freesurfer] Error in creating stats using tracula

2014-09-09 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Neeraj - The libnetcdf error you're getting probably means that you should install a different build of freesurfer (centos 4 instead of centos 6). Which one are you currently using? In the future please email the freesurfer list instead of me personally with questions about tracula. The p

Re: [Freesurfer] Syntax Error: trac-all -bedp

2014-09-09 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Robby - Since you're running it locally and not on a cluster, you can just run bedpostx directly: bedpostx /media/mri/DATAPART11/ROBBY/FREESURFER/T1/INP_080_LISA_V_1/dmri a.y On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Robby De Pauw wrote: > > Dear Anastasia, Barbara & FS-community, > > The preprocessing step of

Re: [Freesurfer] "mri_convert"

2014-09-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Nooshin does it just hang there? How long do you let it run? Bruce On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Nooshin Zadeh wrote: Dear FreeSurfer experts, I get a new message when I use "mri_convert" command to convert dicom to mgz. I used to apply this command before and there was no problem. I wonder what i

Re: [Freesurfer] From bedpostX and recon-all to tracula

2014-09-09 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Can you please attach the trac-all.log file, which has the entire output from beginning to end? Ofter something goes wrong earlier that causes the program to fail later in the process. Also, we'll need your original configuration file. Thanks! On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Katherine Damme wrote: Hel

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit problem

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
That means that you need to add something like --surface fsaverage lh the above assumes that you used the left hemi of fsaverage On 09/05/2014 02:56 AM, Minjeong Wang wrote: > > Dear all, > > i have some problem with mri_glmfit. > > The error message is "you must use '--surface subject hemi'

Re: [Freesurfer] within individual multimodal correlation

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
Why do you have your activation in a .w file? If you can save it as .mgh, then things get a lot easier. You can convert it to mgh using mri_surf2surf. You'll need to convert the thickness to mgh with mri_convert lh.thickness lh.thickness.mgh. Then load the two mgh files into matlab, eg, thick

Re: [Freesurfer] how to interpret a change in area of 0.004 mm² per year?

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
This is tough to interpret, but basically, yes it would be 0-.004mm2/year. It is not quite right to say that it is at that vertex because of smoothing, but in that area. It is also hard to say what the total change would be for a cluster. One could sum the changes over the cluster vertices, bu

Re: [Freesurfer] Using fieldmap to correct EPI distortions

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 09/06/2014 07:10 AM, Reza Rajimehr wrote: > Hi, > > I have a basic question, but the answer can be useful for others as well. > > I am doing a customized preprocessing of monkey functional data in FS-FAST > v5.3. After motion correction and before functional-anatomical > registration, I want to

Re: [Freesurfer] Using fieldmap to correct EPI distortions

2014-09-09 Thread Douglas N Greve
the commands I gave you will do this On 09/06/2014 07:47 AM, Reza Rajimehr wrote: > I forgot to mention that I want to use undistorted EPI volumes for the > functional-anatomical registration. > > >> Hi, >> >> I have a basic question, but the answer can be useful for others as well. >> >> I am doin

[Freesurfer] "mri_convert"

2014-09-09 Thread Nooshin Zadeh
Dear FreeSurfer experts, I get a new message when I use "mri_convert" command to convert dicom to mgz. I used to apply this command before and there was no problem. I wonder what is the reason that I get the new message. In addition, it does not create mgz file, and goes to infinite loop. *mri_c

Re: [Freesurfer] freesurfer commands from MATLAB

2014-09-09 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Hi Markus, Thank you for this, yes I am running Mac OS 10.9.2, and the freesurfer command freeview loads the data fine when I start up matlab from the bash terminal (even without using XQuartz, my equivalent of X11) and call this command. Thanks for the quick help! Barbara On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 a

Re: [Freesurfer] QCACHE error

2014-09-09 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Gayane, what happens if you run the mris_calc command directly? Also check if all the inputs really exist. It could be that you need to update mris_calc there was a problem with long file names in an earlier version. Which FS version are you using? Best, Martin On 09/09/2014 09:51 AM, Ga

Re: [Freesurfer] QCACHE error

2014-09-09 Thread Gayane Aghakhanyan
Dear list, I'm running longitudinal two stage model as is described in the tutorial here: http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/LongitudinalTwoStageModel First, I've proceeded with longitudinal pipeline all my data, second, I've created longitudinal qdec table, and then, I've started to qcache my data, wh

[Freesurfer] Syntax Error: trac-all -bedp

2014-09-09 Thread Robby De Pauw
Dear Anastasia, Barbara & FS-community, The preprocessing step of Tracula was succesfully completed. However when I try to do the next step: fitting the Ball & Stick model I get another error: mri@ge24c165:/media/mri/DATAPART11/ROBBY/FREESURFER$ trac-all -bedp -c dmrirc.info INFO: SUBJECTS

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula reconstructed tracts quality

2014-09-09 Thread Peggy Skelly
Hi Anastasia, Thanks for taking a look and point that out. I'll have to be more careful in checking the source images, instead of going by the notes (and memory of events years past) left by the previous engineers on the project.;) -Peggy On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Anastasia Yendiki < ayend

Re: [Freesurfer] how to shrink wm surface

2014-09-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Andrea what is the background image? This is usually either a failure of the intensity normalization or of the surface deformation/segmentation to adaptively estimate the underlying intensity distributions of the gray/white matter. If you look in recon-all.log for that subject you will fin

Re: [Freesurfer] Help with pial boundary

2014-09-09 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Joann it looks like some white matter is not being identified in the ?h.white surface. You need to diagnose why this is happening. It's probably an inaccurately corrected topological defect. Have you gone through the tutorials? You will likely need to add some wm voxels back in. If you uplo

Re: [Freesurfer] freesurfer commands from MATLAB

2014-09-09 Thread Markus Gschwind
Hi Barbara, You haven't told us which OS you use. For example in Mac OS it is necessary to start up MATLAB by typing matlab into the X11 terminal, otherwise the system OS will not recognize the commands given via matlab (e.g. system('mycommand') .) Best, Markus 2014-09-09 13:45 GMT+02:00 Barbara

[Freesurfer] freesurfer commands from MATLAB

2014-09-09 Thread Barbara Kreilkamp
Dear Freesurfers, Is there a way of calling freesurfer-scripts from within MATLAB? I know there are some setups needed to make MATLAB understand where it can find the commands (I have done this before with FSL). I am using bash, and when I type the Freesurfer commands in a terminal by hand, they w

Re: [Freesurfer] how to shrink wm surface

2014-09-09 Thread Krieger, Donald N.
mris_expand may do what you want. You can use it to shrink or expand the points on a surface by a fixed percentage or a fixed distance. Regards, Don Don Krieger, Ph.D. Department of Neurological Surgery University of Pittsburgh (412)648-9654 Office (412)521-4431 Cell/Text From: freesurfer-boun

[Freesurfer] how to shrink wm surface

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Horváth
Dear Freesurfers, After running recon-all, the wm surfaces are too close to the pial surface, some gray matter is segmented as white matter as seen in the attached picture (red cross: a bigger cortical part is included in the white matter). How can I shrink the wm surface? Thank you for your he

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter surface area

2014-09-09 Thread _andreia_
Hi Will, Just to clarify, what version of FS are you using? I think it might not be 5.0 and I don't know if everything aplies if we are using different versions. 1) Yes, it is only based on the pial surface (and these command lines are for the aparc, DK altas). The second set provides the surfac

Re: [Freesurfer] hippocampal subfields: from posterior to binary masks

2014-09-09 Thread Luigi Antelmi
Ok Eugenio, I just have a final consideration. Whenever this last step will be implemented, there will still will be the problem of how to binarize those subfields in a way that makes sense. Plese correct me if I'm wrong: given that at the end counting all the non-zero voxels will always overesti

Re: [Freesurfer] hippocampal subfields: from posterior to binary masks

2014-09-09 Thread Eugenio Iglesias
Hi again, Luigi, this sentence that you wrote summarizes everything pretty well: "I think that the posterior files outputted by freesurfer are missing the final step of required to each voxel to the single label with the highest posterior prob." We will implement this in the next FS release. Re

Re: [Freesurfer] hippocampal subfields: from posterior to binary masks

2014-09-09 Thread Luigi Antelmi
Dear Eugenio, /"assign to each voxel the label with the highest posterior probability" /implies that each voxel must belong to *one and only one* label, right? I've found that this is not the case with the posterior_*.mgz files outputted by freesurfer, where each voxel (especially the ones wi

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter surface area

2014-09-09 Thread will brown
Thanks Andreia, this does appear to have worked. Please forgive my ignorance but I do just want to double check two things; 1) The first commands you have given provide the stats for the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex only based on the pial surface, whereas the second set of commands provi