Re: [Freesurfer] fcseed-sess error

2015-05-21 Thread Alexandra Tanner
/lh_7Network_6_FPCN_inferiorparietal_supramarginal_Vtx126184_sm04.bin.vol.mgz And see how many voxels it has? Is it possible that that is a really small segmentation? doug On 05/21/2015 10:30 AM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I'm running fcseed-sess to compute the time course

[Freesurfer] fcseed-sess error

2015-05-21 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I'm running fcseed-sess to compute the time course in 12 different ROIs (created with fcseed-config) across 27 subjects. I'm having an issue, however, where fcseed-sess completes for a particular ROI in most subjects but errors out for a few subjects (see log below). I

Re: [Freesurfer] fcseed-sess error

2015-05-21 Thread Alexandra Tanner
The voxel size for this functional sequence is 3x3x3mm What is the voxel size of your functional? 54 is small, but I would expect it to still work. On 05/21/2015 11:20 AM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug, It is a pretty small segmentation. In subject NNC0931 (the example we're looking

Re: [Freesurfer] fcseed-sess error

2015-05-21 Thread Alexandra Tanner
subjects, but see if it makes those two work). For such a small seed, it may even be better to use .05. On 05/21/2015 11:42 AM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: The voxel size for this functional sequence is 3x3x3mm What is the voxel size of your functional? 54 is small, but I would expect

Re: [Freesurfer] fcseed-sess error

2015-05-21 Thread Alexandra Tanner
have to re-run fcseed-sess for all subjects, but see if it makes those two work). For such a small seed, it may even be better to use .05. On 05/21/2015 11:42 AM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: The voxel size for this functional sequence is 3x3x3mm What is the voxel size of your functional? 54 is small

[Freesurfer] Talairach coordinate discrepancy mri_surfcluster vs tksurfer

2015-04-02 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I ran mri_surfcluster to generate coordinates for cluster maxima from a functional surface analysis. The summary text file generated by mri_surfcluster lists a bunch of information about the clusters, including talairach coordinates for each cluster peak (see example

[Freesurfer] [Fwd: Re: Modeling cortical thickness question]

2014-12-10 Thread Alexandra Tanner
.,M.D. jroff...@partners.org Date:Wed, December 10, 2014 11:52 am To: Alexandra Tanner atan...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu -- Maybe...if we take this approach I guess we would want the cube root of age, not age cubed

[Freesurfer] Modeling cortical thickness question

2014-12-09 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hello Freesurfers, Our group is wondering if any of you know whether it is possible to model cortical thickness as a third order polynomial? The specific question is: we are looking at whether there is a hyperbolic relationship between cortical thickness and date of birth among a cohort of

Re: [Freesurfer] funcroi calculating percent signal change

2013-11-01 Thread Alexandra Tanner
for one subject). Is -m cespct more accurate? Thanks! Best, Alex Hi Alex, if you use -m cespct it will report the mean percent signal change within the ROI. Does this work? doug On 10/31/2013 02:37 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I would like to calculate percent signal

Re: [Freesurfer] funcroi calculating percent signal change

2013-11-01 Thread Alexandra Tanner
to computing 100*Sum(contrast_i)/Sum(baseline_i) So they will be close but not exact. Which one is better? Hard to say. I would tend toward -m cespect doug On 11/01/2013 01:43 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug, Thanks, this seems to work! Quick question -- in the past we've done ROI

[Freesurfer] funcroi calculating percent signal change

2013-10-31 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I would like to calculate percent signal change within an anatomical ROI for a group of subjects in Freesurfer 5.0. We are not functionally constraining our ROI, however, we do want to calculate the percent signal change across the entire region in each of our conditions

[Freesurfer] Make an average activation map of 2 scans

2013-08-23 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi Freesurfers, Does anyone know how to make an average activation map of two subjects without running a group analysis? I have 15 subjects that each have a pre and a post scan (30 scans total) and we would like to combine the pre and post bold runs for each subject to generate an averaged

Re: [Freesurfer] funcroi-table-sess error

2013-08-12 Thread Alexandra Tanner
be creating this folder (bug). So, if you run it from the project folder, the log folder will be there. Or can create a log folder in your current directory (mkdir log) doug On 7/30/13 2:03 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Dear Doug and Freesurfers, I am attempting to run funcroi-table-sess on a set

[Freesurfer] funcroi-table-sess error

2013-07-30 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Dear Doug and Freesurfers, I am attempting to run funcroi-table-sess on a set of subjects but keep getting an error message I've never seen before: funcroi-table-sess -roi /cluster/roffman/users/Stable5_PerRun/ROI_Analysis/FB12/ctx.lh.insula.aparc+aseg_2vFix.roicfg -sf

Re: [Freesurfer] Contrast file for cortical thickness 2 group 1 covariate analysis

2013-04-08 Thread Alexandra Tanner
if not the slope between thickness and age? doug On 04/05/2013 03:56 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Dear Doug and Freesurfers, I'm running a group cortical thickness analysis covaried by age, and we're curious if there is a way to correlate thickness and age within groups and then look at whether

[Freesurfer] Contrast file for cortical thickness 2 group 1 covariate analysis

2013-04-05 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Dear Doug and Freesurfers, I'm running a group cortical thickness analysis covaried by age, and we're curious if there is a way to correlate thickness and age within groups and then look at whether or not there is a difference in the strength of the thickness/age relationship between groups.

Re: [Freesurfer] mergecontrasts-sess group map

2012-11-30 Thread Alexandra Tanner
with the CES. That's the problem with trying to do group-wise multi-variate analysis. Another thing you can do is to do a group analysis with each contrast separately, then do a conjunction of the group sig maps. doug On 11/29/2012 03:39 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Thanks for the clarification! So I

Re: [Freesurfer] mergecontrasts-sess group map

2012-11-29 Thread Alexandra Tanner
, then mri_concat to stack all of the maps into one file. At that point you can compute a mean (also with mri_concat). Generally, one does not do group analysis on sig maps though. doug On 11/27/2012 05:08 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I recently used mergecontrasts

Re: [Freesurfer] mergecontrasts-sess group map

2012-11-29 Thread Alexandra Tanner
image). Univariate maps are usually passed up to the group level (the conjunction done with mergecontrasts is multivariate). doug On 11/29/2012 01:05 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug, Thanks for the response! Just out of curiosity, what map is typically used for group analyses? Should I

[Freesurfer] mergecontrasts-sess group map

2012-11-27 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I recently used mergecontrasts-sess to merge two contrasts of an analysis in 50 different subjects. The command ran on each subject individually and created a sig.nii and sig.ovpl file within a merged contrast folder for each subject. I'd now like to look at an average

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_anatomical_stats on multiple subjects

2012-09-05 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi again, This is a follow-up question to my previous email -- the method I used may not be the most efficient or the correct way to extract cortical thickness from manually created ROIs. I'm unfamiliar with how to obtain thickness data from a label, so I'm not sure if what I did is correct or if

[Freesurfer] mris_anatomical_stats on multiple subjects

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi Doug and Freesurfers, I'm currently working on extracting thickness measurements from an ROI I manually created. I created my ROI label in tksurfer and applied the label to each subject I'd like to extract thickness data from using mri_label2label. I then used the following command to generate

Re: [Freesurfer] Help removing marking from DICOM/.nii files

2012-08-22 Thread Alexandra Tanner
to replace the value with values of nearby voxels. Let me know if you need some instructions on this. doug On 08/22/2012 02:08 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug, I'm currently working with 4-6 year old clinical pediatric non-Siemens DICOM files that I'm unpacking and preprocessing

Re: [Freesurfer] Clinical DICOM files

2012-08-20 Thread Alexandra Tanner
target -run last MEMPRAGE scan MPRAGE COR blah -- for this scan should I be converting to mgh/mgz instead? Thanks, Alex dcmunpack will convert them to whatever file format you want (don't use COR though). doug On 08/20/2012 09:51 AM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Thanks Bruce. I see that because

[Freesurfer] Talairach transform error

2012-08-20 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Dear Doug, As I mentioned in a previous email, I'm currently working with T1 DICOM files from the Clinical PACS System that I'd like to pull into the freesurfer stream to get cortical thickness. I've unpacked the data, converting the DICOM files to mgz format, and successfully ran the first

[Freesurfer] Clinical DICOM files

2012-08-16 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Dear Doug, We're getting T1 DICOM files from the Clinical PACS System (via mi2b2) and would like to pull them info the freesurfer stream to get cortical thickness. In order to run the standard unpacking commands, do we need any other files besides the DICOM files themselves? Of note, these scans

[Freesurfer] Talairach registration

2012-08-10 Thread Alexandra Tanner
Hi Doug, I'm currently looking into doing surface edits on past data and I heard someone mention that one should never scale the brain when editing the talairach registration. I was wondering if this was true, or if it's okay to scale the brain so long as you check the scaling in all 3 dimensions

Re: [Freesurfer] Talairach registration

2012-08-10 Thread Alexandra Tanner
careful with scaling. doug On 08/10/2012 08:51 AM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug, I'm currently looking into doing surface edits on past data and I heard someone mention that one should never scale the brain when editing the talairach registration. I was wondering if this was true, or if it's

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer Question

2012-07-25 Thread Alexandra Tanner
time points, then import this table into SPSS. Or you can run the table through mri_glmfit to do the paired-t analysis. doug On 07/24/2012 01:56 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug, Yes, sorry about that! I realized after I'd sent the email to you that I should've sent the email

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer Question

2012-07-24 Thread Alexandra Tanner
the opportunity to answer and to learn. thanks! On 07/23/2012 12:03 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Mr. Greve, My name is Alex Tanner, I'm the new CRC for Dr. Roffman in the Brain Genomics Lab. I had a question regarding conducting volume analyses. On the freesurfer wiki there are commands that show how

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer Question

2012-07-24 Thread Alexandra Tanner
can run the table through mri_glmfit to do the paired-t analysis. doug On 07/24/2012 01:56 PM, Alexandra Tanner wrote: Hi Doug, Yes, sorry about that! I realized after I'd sent the email to you that I should've sent the email to the freesurfer list as well. We were hoping to look at volume