Re: [Freesurfer] TkSurfer and new color table. Mislabelling

2012-07-05 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Pedro, Have a look at this article: http://brainder.org/2011/07/05/freesurfer-brains-in-arbitrary-colours I think this is the same you'd like to do (or you can change some steps easily). Hope it helps! All the best, Anderson On 05/07/12 20:44, Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior wr

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume to surface

2012-05-08 Thread Anderson Winkler
ok, just posted... please, see here: http://brainder.org On 08/05/12 15:51, Anderson Winkler wrote: Hi Gabriel, Please, try downloading from here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2785709/aseg2srf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2785709/srf2obj Right-click and click Save As, to avoid Windows opening it up

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume to surface

2012-05-08 Thread Anderson Winkler
a link to the downloading page? That way I can try again and see what happens. I did check in my Linux distribution and is just as you said, the gawk is the default, so I have no any other idea for this. Regards, Gabriel El 08/05/12, *Anderson Winkler * escribió: Hi Gabriel, This sou

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume to surface

2012-05-08 Thread Anderson Winkler
rfer/bin/srf2obj:2: ' invalid on the expressionrfer/bin/srf2obj:2: ^ character ' Regards, Gabriel El 07/05/12, *Anderson Winkler * escribió: Hi Gabriel, Attached is a script that probably does what you need. Just make it executable and call it without arguments to get usage inf

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume to surface

2012-05-07 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Gabriel, Attached is a script that probably does what you need. Just make it executable and call it without arguments to get usage information. The label indices you can get from the aseg.stats file or from FreeSurferColorLUT.txt. The surfaces will be saved in a subdirectory called "ascii

Re: [Freesurfer] OBJ conversion

2012-05-03 Thread Anderson Winkler
;mri_convert" then I'm using your script to convert that surface to an object file but always renturns the following error: aplication srf2obj gawk: /root/trabajo/freesurfer/bin/srf2obj:2: ' inválido en la expresiónrfer/bin/srf2obj:2: ^ caracter ' I'm working under cent

Re: [Freesurfer] Vertex wise analysis and area/pial area/volume interpretation

2012-05-02 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Mahinda, For question 1, if you use the new mris_preproc, as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg19821.html then yes, you are safe in computing the areas for each vertex. We have a recent paper that discuss current matters on pointwise area stuff, a

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical Normalization Questions

2012-03-27 Thread Anderson Winkler
*De:* Anderson Winkler *Para:* freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu *Enviado:* Lunes 26 de marzo de 2012 13:56 *Asunto:* Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical Normalization Questions Hi Jeff and all, For normalization (i.e., divide the

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical Normalization Questions

2012-03-26 Thread Anderson Winkler
is flawed, I'd be curious to know what the reason was... >>> >>> cheers, >>> -MH >>> >>> On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 21:00 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote: >>>> Hi Jeff >>>> >>>> yes, I think this is still our recommendation

Re: [Freesurfer] OBJ conversion

2012-02-22 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Darshan, If you'd like to go directly from FreeSurfer .asc to OBJ, the attached little script should do the trick... Hope it helps! All the best, Anderson On 21/02/12 16:59, Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior wrote: There's a how-to in the FreeSurfer website: http://surfer.nmr.m

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_convert exporting parcellation per vertex

2011-10-15 Thread Anderson Winkler
oops, sorry list, this was supposed to go to Pedro... On 15/10/11 17:39, Anderson Winkler wrote: Ah Pedro, Se era isso que você precisava, poderia ter falado. Eu tenho isso pronto, que pode ser chamado via linha de comandos. Foi usado no paper que vc deve ter visto... Abração, Anderson On

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_convert exporting parcellation per vertex

2011-10-15 Thread Anderson Winkler
wrote: Thanks. I suppose I can't do this without matlab. Right? -- iOS 5.0 Em 08/10/2011, às 19:29, Bruce Fischl mailto:fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> escreveu: there is a write_annotation.m file you can use

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_convert exporting parcellation per vertex

2011-10-08 Thread Anderson Winkler
ops, it seems the comments inside the dpxwrite.m no longer reflect what it does. You probably don't need this, but anyway, the version attached is more up-to-date. Anderson On 08/10/11 17:28, Anderson Winkler wrote: Hi Pedro, There is probably a way to do that using FS tools from the co

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_convert exporting parcellation per vertex

2011-10-08 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Pedro, There is probably a way to do that using FS tools from the command line, but the attached script should do the same. The result is a "data-per-vertex" file, which is the same as the .asc files from mris_convert. There is no geometry input, hence the vertex coordinates are all set to

Re: [Freesurfer] Accuracy of FreeSurfers gray matter segmentation

2011-08-29 Thread Anderson Winkler
swiki/FreeSurferAnalysisPipelineOverview#TheVolume-based.28Subcortical.29Stream You may want also to have a look at this paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00569-X Hope this helps! All the best, Anderson On 29/08/11 03:38, Lucas Eggert wrote: Dear Anderson Winkler, thank you very much for your quick res

Re: [Freesurfer] Accuracy of FreeSurfers gray matter segmentation

2011-08-28 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Lucas, To know if a given structure is gray or white matter you can look in any reasonable anatomy textbook. In any case, the question itself is somewhat ill-posed, because some of the subcortical structures have heterogeneous tissue composition and can't really be labeled entirely as gray

Re: [Freesurfer] Brain volume in FreeSurfer analysis

2011-08-24 Thread Anderson Winkler
re subtle but spread across the brain, which covariate would you use? thanks, Alan [Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center] On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Anderson Winkler mailto:andersonwink...@hotmail.com>> wrote: A side note: If you are using FS 4.5.0 or earlier, there is also

Re: [Freesurfer] Brain volume in FreeSurfer analysis

2011-08-24 Thread Anderson Winkler
A side note: If you are using FS 4.5.0 or earlier, there is also BrainSegVolNotVent, which discount ventricles. If you want to capture effects of aging or atrophy, perhaps this could be more sensitive than BrainSegVol. On 24/08/11 12:32, Anderson Winkler wrote: Hi Zuzana, Yes, you can use

Re: [Freesurfer] Brain volume in FreeSurfer analysis

2011-08-24 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Zuzana, Yes, you can use BrainSegVol as a measurement of brain volume (I'd assume you are using FS <=4.5.0). Note that there is another measurement that you might be interested in, the IntraCranialVol. These measurements tell different things and not necessarily correlate well one with ano

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface documentation

2011-08-17 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Jeff, Not sure where you can find a verbose documentation, but you can figure out by looking at the file read_surf.m in the ${FREESURFER_HOME}/matlab directory. It's straightforward. All the best, Anderson On 08/17/2011 04:32 PM, Jeff Eriksen wrote: Where may I find the documentation expla

Re: [Freesurfer] global mean thickness

2011-08-14 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Allison, A suggestion is to use the surface area of each hemisphere as the weighting factor. The global average thickness for both hemispheres is then given by: bh.thickness = (lh.thickness*lh.surfarea + rh.thickness*rh.surfarea) / (lh.surfarea + rh.surfarea). If you use the data in the ?h

[Freesurfer] Imaging Genomics Post-Doctoral Fellowship

2011-08-12 Thread Anderson Winkler
*Imaging Genomics Post-Doctoral Fellowship* ** A postdoctoral fellowship in Imaging Genetics at the Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, and the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, is currently available. The two-year NIH-funded fellowship, under the direction of

Re: [Freesurfer] VRML support

2011-08-10 Thread Anderson Winkler
Dear Andrei, Do you need any specific feature from VRML? If not, and you simply need to import the mesh into Blender, you can do this: 1) Convert the mesh to ASCII format: /mris_convert somesurface somesurface.asc/ 2) Save the attached script somewhere, make it executable with chmod, then us

Re: [Freesurfer] correct mris_anatomical_stats syntax for cortical area

2011-05-27 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Joakim, I think you can remove entirely the -t option. The area will be one of the fields in the table, regardless of this option, as it depends on the mesh that is used to derive all other measurements except thickness. If you specify an ?h.area file with -t, it will instead output incorre

Re: [Freesurfer] two questions

2011-05-16 Thread Anderson Winkler
with that, though. I see no reason why thickness measurements wouldn't be normal. All the best! Anderson On 05/16/2011 03:18 PM, Ilana Hairston wrote: thanks! very helpful. not to be argumentative, but if my Z distribution is not normal, is there meaning to FDR? On May 16, 2011, at

Re: [Freesurfer] two questions

2011-05-16 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Ilana, I'll let the first question to the FS experts to answer. For the second: > 1. Is it legitimate toconclude from this that the regressor's overall effect > is that it's associated with a thinner cortex (e.g., older subjects have a > thinner cortex), eventhough most of the cortex does no

Re: [Freesurfer] display results on fsaverage / calculate area

2011-05-12 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Boris, For now I am taking the geometric average between pial and white surface coordinates. Is that the right way to do it, or is there a more precise way? To obtain a surface that lies in the geometric middle between white and pial surfaces, it is correct to take the average of the coor

Re: [Freesurfer] Support for PPC Mac

2011-05-11 Thread Anderson Winkler
We still have here an old, but very good dual-core PPC that we use to work with tksurfer, tkmedit, qdec, glmfit and other utilities. If not at all hard to compile, it would be good to continue having FreeSurfer available... At some point we'll inevitably have to turn that machine off, but it co

Re: [Freesurfer] Change the default SUBJECTS_DIR...

2011-04-23 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Catherine, When setting the variable, drop the "$" sign. So, type simply: setenv SUBJECTS_DIR /media/external/data/Ventricle-freesurfer Anderson On 04/23/2011 04:04 PM, Rongxiang Tang wrote: Hi Krish, Thanks for the help. It's calculating now... One more questions...I noticed that when I

Re: [Freesurfer] Content of .tif files

2011-03-21 Thread Anderson Winkler
o the trick, > maybe you used the hex-number instead of decimal for the tag code? > > - Manfred > > > Anderson Winkler wrote: > >> Hi Graham and Manfred, >> >> Thanks for the help! Interesting is that the .tif created with >> mris_make_template in

Re: [Freesurfer] Content of .tif files

2011-03-21 Thread Anderson Winkler
gt; Hi Anderson, >> >> This might be helpful (beware datedness though). >> >> https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TemplateTifImageFiles >> >> The data at the time I did that goc was evidently stored in 32-bit float >> format... that could lead to your

Re: [Freesurfer] Content of .tif files

2011-03-21 Thread Anderson Winkler
straight variances. Are the > means large too? Make sure there are no byte-swapping issues > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Anderson Winkler wrote: > > >> Hi Bruce, >> >> Thanks! They appear to be stored as 32-bits integers and when I open I >> get very large nu

Re: [Freesurfer] Content of .tif files

2011-03-21 Thread Anderson Winkler
se are stored for curv, sulc and inflated curvature. > > cheers > Bruce > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Anderson Winkler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The .tif files (templates) contain 9 pages each, which seem to be >> organized as 3+3+3. I think I understand that they are

[Freesurfer] Content of .tif files

2011-03-21 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi all, The .tif files (templates) contain 9 pages each, which seem to be organized as 3+3+3. I think I understand that they are equirectangular projections of the latitude/longitude of curvature and sulcal depth, is this correct? But what exactly each of these 9 frames contain? Thanks! Ander

Re: [Freesurfer] freesurfer and VBM

2011-01-25 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi Ritobrato, We have one that may too interest you: Winkler AM, Kochunov P, Blangero J, Almasy L, Zilles K, Fox PT, Duggirala R, Glahn DC. Cortical thickness or grey matter volume? The importance of selecting the phenotype for imaging genetics studies. Neuroimage. 2010 Nov 15;53(3):1135-46. h

Re: [Freesurfer] FDR correction

2009-10-17 Thread Anderson Winkler
Dear all, The B&H procedure is dependent on the number of tests and, for neuroimaging methods, more tests is often equivalent to higher resolution, either in voxel-based or surface-based representations of the brain. The question that arises is whether this would influence sensitivity and/or p

Re: [Freesurfer] FDR correction

2009-03-26 Thread Anderson Winkler
Dear Lars, Pedro and all, There should be no problem in using different thresholds for each of these pairwise comparisons. Let's consider the following extreme case: Suppose in one of these comparisons you have a strong effect (say, "activation") that comprises large brain regions. Suppose t

Re: [Freesurfer] 3D graphics card and blade systems

2009-01-13 Thread Anderson Winkler
sue is something the FreeSurfer community want but it's not so easy to implement in this situation. Best Regards, Pedro Paulo Jr. --- Pedro Paulo de M. Oliveira Junior Diretor de Operações Netfilter & SpeedComm Telecom On Mon, Ja

[Freesurfer] 3D graphics card and blade systems

2009-01-12 Thread Anderson Winkler
Dear all, We are considering to buy a blade system, and FreeSurfer would be one of the applications to run on it. We know that a 3D graphics card, with support for OpenGL and built-in memory+GPU, is recommended. What we are not sure is whether it is mandatory for all the FreeSurfer routines, of if

[Freesurfer] Re: recon-all with voxel sizes other than 1mm^3

2008-10-15 Thread Anderson Winkler
Hi, I edited the recon-all, omitting the --conform option, and the pipeline failed shortly after. So, is there a way to run the volume processing pipeline (in particular, the subcortical segmentation), without resampling to 1mm^3 voxels, keeping the native format 0.8^3 mm^3? Anderson

[Freesurfer] recon-all with voxel sizes other than 1mm^3

2008-10-13 Thread Anderson Winkler
Dear all, Is there a way to have all the results from recon-all in the native image space (in our case, 0.8x0.8x0.8mm), rather than conformed to 1mm^3? Looking at the script, I'm worried that replacing the --conform to --noconform option to mri_convert may prevent the downstream steps to work c