Re: [Freesurfer] Can't Remove WM

2014-07-17 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Wade, You just need to adjust the min/mid/max settings for the wm on the sidebar under the Color map drop-down menu. Try using 0/100/255. How are you trying to erase? Either shift+left-click, or enable right-click erasing under Edit->Preferences. -Louis On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Weber, Wade

Re: [Freesurfer] exporting movies from freeview

2014-07-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Pavitra, In Freeview, go to File -> Save Movie Frames. For the fly through option select Frame. There is no command line option for this feature yet, but hopefully soon. -Louis On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, pavit...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: > Hi Freesurfer Team, > I have a 4D volume mask of MRI m

Re: [Freesurfer] bad freesurfer segmentation

2014-07-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Doety, Consider these options for uploading data: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FtpFileExchange https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/facility/filedrop/index.html I think recon-all is expecting your wm.mgz to be conformed or 256^3. Something like: mri_convert wm.mgz wm.conform.mgz --conf

Re: [Freesurfer] Group analysis tutorial

2014-07-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Qijing, Under the 'Freeview dev build' section on this wiki page you can download an updated version of freeview. http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/Download -Louis On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Qijing Yu wrote: > Hi Doug, > > By new version, do you mean v5.3.0? > > Qijing > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer Help

2014-07-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Paras, The tcsh warning is ok, but see this link for more info and a fix: http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg28980.html The unrecognized flag error is because you have a space between the dash and subjid, just delete that space. -Louis On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Paras Pa

Re: [Freesurfer] Voxels included in wm.mgz but not in white matter surface

2014-07-03 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi James, If you draw in 255 voxels on the wm.mgz to connect that stray blob of red voxels to the others, then the wm surf should include it on a rerun. Look through a couple slices in that area for any disconnected wm voxels since it may be occuring on multiple slices. -Louis On Thu, 3 Jul

Re: [Freesurfer] -normalization all black

2014-07-03 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Teo, You might just need to adjust the contrast/brightness settings when viewing the volume in freeview. If you move your mouse around do any non-zero values appear in the bottom right voxel info panel? The T1.mgz for bert should be 4.6mb, so you can see if what you have matches that. O

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: surface to volume visualization

2014-07-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
?  Thanks James On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: Hi James, Freeview has a "Write Movie Frames" option which will grab multiple screenshots throughout a volume.  I recently requested a commandline option for this.  I've run into the &quo

Re: [Freesurfer] Edits, where art thou?

2014-07-01 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Max, Could you send a snapshot of an area where your wm edits did not have an effect? Keep in mind the wm voxels you add to the wm.mgz should be well connected to the rest of the wm mask, or else it will tend to get pruned off. You can look at the ?h.orig.nofix surfaces to see if the intia

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: surface to volume visualization

2014-07-01 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi James, Freeview has a "Write Movie Frames" option which will grab multiple screenshots throughout a volume. I recently requested a commandline option for this. I've run into the "no X11 on cluster" limitation as well, and I don't have a work-around at this point. The snapshot-to-html scr

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal preprocessing troubleshooting

2014-07-01 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Bryan, Re: 1a) Did you run the case all the way through recon-all? Even if the skullstripping looks poor, it's possible that the surfaces will turn out ok and might only require some pial edits. Otherwise, this site has some helpful info on rerunning the skullstripping step: https://surf

Re: [Freesurfer] Skull-Stripping Atlas Usage

2014-06-27 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Teo, Yes it does, but you can use the -no-wsgcaatlas flag. You can also try using gcut which doesn't use an atlas (almost certain). Link with skullstripping info: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/SkullStripFix_freeview -Louis On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Teo Gelles wrote: Hi

Re: [Freesurfer] free surfer

2014-06-26 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Sam, With the voxel edit tool in freeview, you can select the flood fill tool (paint bucket icon), and check the box labeled "Flood fill multiple slices at a time". You might have to play with the tolerance percentage to get a good rough-start segmentation of the tumor tissue. -Louis On W

Re: [Freesurfer] editing aseg

2014-06-25 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Andrea, To regenerate the aseg.stats file after aseg edits you can run: recon-all -segstats -s -Louis On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Andrea Horváth wrote: Dear All, After running recon-all and checked all the required steps, some part of the right cerebral white matter was still segmented as righ

Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with freeview

2014-06-19 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Fabio, I don't believe the 5.1 version of freeview had that flag. The tutorial instructions are written for 5.3 version of freeview. You can download a more recent version of freeview here (under Other Downloads & Info): https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download You may want to ma

Re: [Freesurfer] Unpacking Problem

2014-06-08 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Emad, In your recon-all command what does 03551671 correspond to? I don't see 03551671 in the scan.info file corresponding to any of the runs. I think you want to use 03557285. Also, run 26 apparently has 176 frames which shouldn't be the case. -Louis On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Emad Ahmadi wro

Re: [Freesurfer] neocortical gray matter

2014-06-08 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Elisabetta, The cortex measure (surface-based) reported in the aseg.stats file would be best. See this site for details on various morphometry measures: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MorphometryStats -Louis On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Elisabetta del Re wrote: > Dear Freesurfer team,wha

Re: [Freesurfer] Control point error

2014-05-30 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Victor, This recon was originally processed with FS5.3, but when you reran it with autorecon2-cp -autorecon3 you used FS5.1. Could you try rerunning this case again with the same (314) control points using FS5.3 instead and see if the right frontal area of the wm surface is severely underes

Re: [Freesurfer] FW: WG: WG: [Fwd: WG: missing temporal lobes], calculation CSF

2014-05-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
al Message- From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Louis Nicholas Vinke Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:22 PM To: Freesurfer support list Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] FW: WG: WG: [Fwd: WG: missing temporal lobes], calculati

Re: [Freesurfer] FW: WG: WG: [Fwd: WG: missing temporal lobes], calculation CSF

2014-05-27 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Kristina, This page has the details I believe you are looking for: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MorphometryStats -Louis On Tue, 27 May 2014, Mayer Kristina wrote: Oh, I see. So in the calculation of total GM in aseg.stats does it include the hippocampus, although it is not s

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_vol2vol memory error

2014-05-22 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Ben, There should be a procsurffast flag called -volproj_lowmem which avoids this mri_vol2vol memory issue. -Louis On Wed, 21 May 2014, Douglas N Greve wrote: > > mri_vol2vol when used in this way does not manage memory very well. It > resamples the time series into a 256^3 volume of floats.

Re: [Freesurfer] change background color in tksurfer

2014-05-21 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rujing, If you load the surface up in freeview you can change the background color. -Louis On Wed, 14 May 2014, charujing123 wrote: Hi Bruce and Doug, Ok, I see. That's all right. All the best. Rujing Zha   2014-05-14 ___

Re: [Freesurfer] Coomand not found

2014-05-12 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Ok, could you send the entire terminal output? Thanks. -Louis On Mon, 12 May 2014, Francesca Strappini wrote: > Thanks Louis! > > Yes, I did run tkmedit from the same terminal window I have sourced > freesurfer... > > Francesca > > 2014-05-12 16:57 GMT+03:00 Loui

Re: [Freesurfer] Coomand not found

2014-05-12 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Francesca, Are you trying to run the tkmedit command in the same terminal window you have sourced freesurfer? You'll need to source freesurfer in any new terminal window you open before being able to run any freesurfer commands. It's possible to set it up so that freesurfer is sourced automa

Re: [Freesurfer] installing freesurfer on mac

2014-05-01 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Charmaine, Sounds like you just need to change the folder permissions for, /Applications/freesurfer/ before attempting to copy the .license file to that location. -Louis On Thu, 1 May 2014, Demanuele, Charmaine wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install freesurfer on my mac, and I got a licens

Re: [Freesurfer] wm and pial edits - what to correct and what not?

2014-04-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
2014-04-11 17:23 GMT+02:00 Louis Nicholas Vinke : Hi Markus, You can try running mri_gcut with a slightly higher T value, default is 0.4. command would be something like (running from within subject's mri dir): mri_gcut -T 0.5 T1.mgz brainmask.gcuts.T-0.

Re: [Freesurfer] wm and pial edits - what to correct and what not?

2014-04-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
ssive? Thank you for help! Markus 2014-04-07 22:40 GMT+02:00 Louis Nicholas Vinke : Hi Markus, It will only skullstrip the T1 and generate a new brainmask.mgz. So you'll need to run autorecon2 and 3 afterwards.

Re: [Freesurfer] Large areas of white matter ignored, even with control points

2014-04-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
to correct the segmentation? Thanks, Andrea On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: Hi Andrea, You can use the contour tool in the voxel edit mode to quickly and roughly fill in wm.  Use the tool with the wm.mgz selected in the volume layer list but set

Re: [Freesurfer] wm and pial edits - what to correct and what not?

2014-04-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
ks! Markus 2014-04-07 20:01 GMT+02:00 Louis Nicholas Vinke : Hi Markus, Instructions for using gcut within recon-all can be found on this wiki page, near the bottom. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/SkullStripFix_freeview -Louis On Mon,

Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC tutorial data- problem in downloading

2014-04-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Saurabh, Are you receiving any type of error messages? The Buckner tutorial data tar file is 11GB so it might be the case that the network you are on has some file size limits imposed. Try downloading this for instance, which is only 17.3MB but located in the same ftp directory as the Buckn

Re: [Freesurfer] wm and pial edits - what to correct and what not?

2014-04-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Markus, Instructions for using gcut within recon-all can be found on this wiki page, near the bottom. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/SkullStripFix_freeview -Louis On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Markus that looks pretty blurry and low contrast, although

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer QDEC Buckner Data

2014-04-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Saurabh, Did the wget command fail for you? I just tried it and the download started without any issues. You can also just paste the ftp address into your browser and download it that way as well. -Louis On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Saurabh Thakur wrote: > Hello Freesurfer Expert, > > I am working

Re: [Freesurfer] missing Freesurfer wiki pages

2014-04-03 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Gabor, Thanks, should be fixed now. Any of the links with the _tktools suffix can be replaced with _freeview to view an alternate version of the wiki page using freeview commands. -Louis On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Gabor Perlaki wrote: > Dear all, > > Most of the links on > https://surfer.nmr.mgh.h

Re: [Freesurfer] mris_anatomical_stats aparc pial and aparcstats2table

2014-03-26 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Andreia, If you remove the underscore from aparc_pial for the --parc flag in the aparcstats2table command, that should do the trick. -Louis On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, _andre...@sapo.pt wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to get aparc surface area from the pial surface in a table > using aparcstats2

Re: [Freesurfer] thickness for "subcortical structures"

2014-03-25 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Francesco, This wiki page has pretty good definitions for the morphometry stats. Let us know if you want to clarify anything though. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MorphometryStats -Louis On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Francesco Puccettone wrote: > Hello, > > I've read that cortical thic

Re: [Freesurfer] bvals and bvecs for dt_recon

2014-03-13 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Attached are examples of the bvals.dat and bvecs.dat files extracted from siemens dicoms by dt_recon. This was for a 60 dir DTI scan w/ 10 b0s. On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Chris Watson wrote: dcm2nii should give you bvecs and bvals If you just want to transpose the file, I wrote a script to do it (a

Re: [Freesurfer] Brain Segmentation blurred at the interhemisphere surface

2014-03-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
g On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: Hi Kaiming, I'm almost certain you are right at the medial line and what you are seeing is the transition from one hemi to the other.  Most likely the brain is slightly oblique and so the sagittal slic

Re: [Freesurfer] Brain Segmentation blurred at the interhemisphere surface

2014-03-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Kaiming, I'm almost certain you are right at the medial line and what you are seeing is the transition from one hemi to the other. Most likely the brain is slightly oblique and so the sagittal slice does not perfectly bisect the two hemispheres. -Louis On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Kaiming Yin wrote

Re: [Freesurfer] cannot sign white matter area by control point and white matter edit

2014-03-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rujing, You might try drawing in the wm thicker than it is already. Also, check there are no disconnects between the wm voxels in the wm.mgz. -Louis On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, charujing123 wrote: Hi all. In troubleshooting, I want to sign some area as white matter by control point and wm edit.

Re: [Freesurfer] tkmedit edit voxel tcl script

2014-03-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Pfannmoe, I don't believe it is possible to edit a voxel via tcl scripts. If so the command would be listed on this page: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TkMeditGuide/TkMeditReference/TkMeditScripting -Louis On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Joerg Pfannmoeller wrote: > Hello, > > if I have sel

Re: [Freesurfer] Large areas of white matter ignored, even with control points

2014-03-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Andrea, You can use the contour tool in the voxel edit mode to quickly and roughly fill in wm. Use the tool with the wm.mgz selected in the volume layer list but set the brainmask (or T1) as the reference. Set brush value to 255, and then do crtl+alt+leftbutton while dragging the mouse to a

Re: [Freesurfer] QDEC bad fd number

2014-03-06 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Just to follow-up, the sd command is an alias for setting the SUBJECTS_DIR environmental variable to the present working directory. Mihaela was able to get rid of the "Bad fd number" error by running the following commands on her ubuntu workstation. It seems like this error is not freesurfer-

Re: [Freesurfer] How to clone from T1 to brainmask in freeview to amend a bad skull strip

2014-02-28 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Emad, Which version of FS are you using? The freeview in the 5.3 release has the clone tool within the voxel edit mode, but it's not in 5.1 or earlier. It's represented by an icon with a blue and gray rectangle. Take a look at the 5th section on this page: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.ed

Re: [Freesurfer] No labels file in label directory?

2014-02-26 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Sabin, What command did you run? Sending the recon-all.log file in the scripts dir might be a little more helpful. It's failing because the ribbon.mgz does not exist which requires surfaces. This thread might be relevant: http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg32876

Re: [Freesurfer] reconstruction error

2014-02-13 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Osei, Check out this wiki page for how to check the talairach transform and fix it if necessary. If everything looks decent then you can use the -notal-check flag to bypass this step in recon-all. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/Talairach_freeview -Louis On Thu, 13 F

Re: [Freesurfer] {Filename?} Re: Re: recon-all CTABreadASCII error

2014-02-13 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
It should be posted momentarily, sorry for the delay. -Louis On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, charujing123 wrote: Hi Bruce, I did try, but I am so sorry that size of the attachment is too big to send in the mail list. All the best. Rujing Zha   2014-02-13 _

Re: [Freesurfer] Erasing, adding voxels in Freeview

2014-02-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
d get a black box drawn on the screen. It seems that I am not combining button-clicks or values for the eraser and adding correctly. Thank you Sent with Good (www.good.com) -Original Message- From: Louis Nicholas Vinke [vi...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 02:

Re: [Freesurfer] Erasing, adding voxels in Freeview

2014-02-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Alexander, If you are editing FS recons, then you should keep the eraser value set to "1" so that the edits can be detected by recon-all. -Louis On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Ruopeng Wang wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Eraser value is used for erasing. Brush value is used for drawing. To > erase, just hol

Re: [Freesurfer] possible to render hippocampal subfield segmentations as 3D structures?

2014-02-06 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Salil, You should be able to apply an isosurface to each subfield label in freeview. You can set the color for each isosurface as well, since the default is gray. You need to be in the 3D view in order to display isosurfaces. -Louis On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Salil Soman wrote: Hi, I generate

Re: [Freesurfer] 3D thickness scale

2014-02-05 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Jon, If it's the colorbar you are looking for then right-click on the viewing window, then Show Color Bar -> inflated_thickness. There are some additional options under Configure Overlay located on the left sidebar. -Louis On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Jonathan Holt wrote: Hi all, I’ve pulled up a

Re: [Freesurfer] Viewing color-map in freesurfer

2014-01-28 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rotem, Check out the -dti flag in freeview, pass it a vector and FA volume. You can display the colormap as vectors as well once everything is loaded up. Example command: freeview -dti V1.nii.gz FA.nii.gz -Louis On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Rotem Saar wrote: > Hi, > > We followed the instructions

Re: [Freesurfer] unable to download free surfer

2014-01-27 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Peter, I think this is due to some maintenance the IT folks are doing on some of the ftp servers. Should be back up by late afternoon (EST). -Louis On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Davis, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to download freesurfer. Is there a problem at the ftp? > > Thank you, > Peter >

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer installation

2014-01-22 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
bash: setenv: command not found best, Neda On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: Hi Neda, Have you read over the linux install directions in the link below?  You will need to register and get a license file.  After that you should look over the setu

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer installation

2014-01-22 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Neda, Have you read over the linux install directions in the link below? You will need to register and get a license file. After that you should look over the setup and config instructions. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/LinuxInstall https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Setu

Re: [Freesurfer] Standalone Freeview?

2014-01-17 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Jeni, Yes it's possible. You could download the most recent version of FS and then just source that version for when you want to use freeview, or copy the freeview.bin over to your current version. If you tell me the OS version you are running I'll send you the proper freeview.bin file. Ju

Re: [Freesurfer] V1.thresh

2014-01-16 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Krista, I believe the v?.thresh labels are thresholded at p=0.8. This threshold is based on comparisons of actual and predicted V1 boundary with an independent dataset. Relevant pub: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ftp/articles/hinds2008accurate.pdf -Louis On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, krista

Re: [Freesurfer] QAtools_v1.1 package

2014-01-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Michael, The aseg lookup table should be generated from all the subjects in the dataset you are working with initially, then passed with the -asegLUT flag along with any other QA options. I believe the aseg outliers are just any subject measure which is 2 SD above/below the mean for your da

Re: [Freesurfer] Freeview question

2013-12-05 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Alan, You can use mri_binarize to pull it out of the aseg.mgz. FYI: Once loaded into freeview you can also generate an isosurface for the hippocampus label in the 3D view. -Louis On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Alan Francis wrote: > Hi Bruce et al, > > Is it possible to load just the Hippocampal mask/

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: Linear regression

2013-12-04 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
If you don't have MATLAB you could try using Octave instead. On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Douglas N Greve wrote: > > If you don't have matlab, then I don't know of one. The design matrix is > in the glmdir folder (Xg.dat), so if SPSS or some other software can > read that in, then the analysis will be the

Re: [Freesurfer] viewing slices dynamically by tkmedit

2013-12-03 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
or other button/key. Thanks in advance. All the best. 2013-12-03 Rujing Zha ____ 发件人:Louis Nicholas Vinke 发送时间:2013-12-03 03:50 主题:Re: [Freesurfer]

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all strip skull and neck by brain volume mask

2013-12-03 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
ks in advance. All the best.   2013-12-03 Rujing Zha 发件人:Louis Nicholas Vinke 发送时间:2013-12-03 03:58 主题:Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all strip skul

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all strip skull and neck by brain volume mask

2013-12-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rujing, Even if there is some skull/dura left after the skullstrip step in recon-all, it still may not negatively impact the surfaces. It might be worth running the remaining recon-all steps to see how the surfaces turn out. If you want to swap-in a better skullstripped volume into the re

Re: [Freesurfer] viewing slices dynamically by tkmedit

2013-12-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rujing, You can use a tcl script to take several snapshots in tkmedit, then you could use the convert command (part of ImageMagick distro) or something similar to create an animated gif. With the convert command you would use the -adjoin and -delay flags. You could use one of the tcl scri

Re: [Freesurfer] talairach_mixed_with_skull.gca file missing in average directory of local version stable5_3_0

2013-12-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Koene, It looks like Nick copied that volume over on 11/27. Thanks for pointing that out. -Louis On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Koene Van Dijk wrote: > Hi there, > > We've been using this local version of Freesurfer: > /cluster/freesurfer/centos6_x86_64/stable5 > > And this file was relevant: > /clust

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer course troubleshooting presentation slides

2013-11-27 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Janosch, The link on the course schedule page should point to the correct version now. http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/docs/Nov2013/freesurfer.failure_modes.ppt -Louis On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Janosch Linkersdörfer wrote: Hi, thank you very much for providing the lectures of the last

Re: [Freesurfer] your mail

2013-11-19 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Pietro, I think you should try redoing the control points from scratch, but with fewer control points and sparser placement. Currently you have 198 control points tightly packed in only a couple regions. Furthermore, there is one control point at 128, 128, 128 which is right in the thalamu

Re: [Freesurfer] Re Freesurfer type

2013-11-15 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Anna, Yes, search for 'build-stamp' in the recon-all.log. There's also the build-stamp.txt in the scripts dir, but the recon-all.log will tell you if different versions were run by looking at the build-stamp for each invocation in the log. -Louis On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Anna Jonsson wrote: >

Re: [Freesurfer] request

2013-11-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Yes, just tar/zip it up first. On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, pietro de rossi wrote: ok. is it possible to upload the whole subject folder? 2013/11/11 Louis Nicholas Vinke Hi Pietro, Yes, the filedrop would be fine or you can upload using ftp. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Re: [Freesurfer] request

2013-11-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Pietro, Yes, the filedrop would be fine or you can upload using ftp. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FtpFileExchange -Louis On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, pietro de rossi wrote: Dear Freesurfers, I am working on the segmentation of mdeft structural images (Siemens Allegra 3T-acquired) of

Re: [Freesurfer] saving in GIFTI .func.gii format

2013-11-08 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Shahin, You can use mri_convert to convert the mri_glmfit output to GIFTI (.gii). -Louis On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, SHAHIN NASR wrote: Hi Surfers     I have done a surface-based group-averaged mapping and now I need to save the results of the mri_glmfit (sig.nii) command in GIFTI .func.gii format. 

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentation question

2013-11-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
ell me what is the input file that free surfer used to calculate > STV. > I am not sure the webpage below gives that information. > Thanks, > Rashmi > > On 11/7/13 1:57 PM, "Louis Nicholas Vinke" > wrote: > >> Hi Rashmi, >> This page has the defi

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentation question

2013-11-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
2013, Rashmi Singh wrote: > I am using version V5.1.0 is it different for that or the information is > the same irrespective of the version I use. > Rashmi > > On 11/7/13 1:57 PM, "Louis Nicholas Vinke" > wrote: > >> Hi Rashmi, >> This page

Re: [Freesurfer] Segmentation question

2013-11-07 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Rashmi, This page has the definition you are looking for (FS v5.3). https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MorphometryStats -Louis On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Rashmi Singh wrote: FreeSurfer experts,  May you please educate me how the supra tentorial volume (STV) measured by FreeSurfer and which

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_segment WM/GM limits

2013-11-05 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
assed to recon-all. -Louis On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Jonathan Holt wrote: Also, quick question . . . How exactly do you run a recon from scratch without nifti images? I’d always delete the directory and restart with mri_convert -i … Jon On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: H

Re: [Freesurfer] MRISread error

2013-11-05 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Anita, I don't believe you have the complete path set to your SUBJECTS_DIR environmental variable, unless Desktop is in your root dir which I doubt is the case. Easy way to set the variable: cd /path/to/tutorial/data/ setenv SUBJECTS_DIR $PWD Also, check you have fsaverage symlinked to th

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_segment WM/GM limits

2013-11-04 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
con-all -autorecon2-noaseg -subjid >>>>> >>>>> that doesn?t work, the empty space is simply resegmented and the surface >>>>> doesn?t change.. I should note that this has worked for me in the past on >>>>> some brains. >>&g

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_segment WM/GM limits

2013-11-04 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Jon, The limit numbers correspond to voxel intensities in the brainmask.mgz. I believe you will want a lower number for the -wlo/-wm_low flag to make the wm surf extend further out, assuming that the wm voxels that are not being captured by the surface is hypo-intense (<< 110). -Louis On

Re: [Freesurfer] Issues with rh.white and rh.orig surfaces

2013-10-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/recon-all#ExpertOptionsFile On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Jon Holt wrote: Where can I find more info on expert opts? On Oct 28, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: Hi Jon The segmentation looks really poor, which probably causes a topological defect resul

Re: [Freesurfer] problem with freesurfer installation/tkmedit

2013-10-24 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Elissa, The invalid drawable terminal output you can ignore when running Freeview. Presumably bert is not located in /Applications/freesurfer/elissa_thesis/, so that's why the bert commands are failing. Not the same subjects directory that ABU is in. To fix the tkmedit library error it lo

Re: [Freesurfer] Tcsh-error with Freesurfer

2013-10-21 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Philippe, See link below regarding the error you are getting, although recon-all is probably failing because you need to pass not only the path but one dicom file which is part of the T1-weighted scan. If you run the command below in the directory where you copied the dicom files, you will

Re: [Freesurfer] Viewing auxiliary and main volumes simultaneously

2013-09-25 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Jon, You can do this with using the -c flag followed by the path to the control.dat file, presumably in the tmp folder of the subject's recon folder. FYI: under the help menu in Freeview is a quick reference guide for shortcut keys and common actions. Also, type 'freeview -help' in a termin

Re: [Freesurfer] Editing WM

2013-09-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Francesco, Could you maybe send a snapshot of the brainmask and wm volumes where you are seeing this? If you deleted any voxels on the wm mask then they should be a value of 1. You might want to look at the ?h.orig.nofix surfaces to see if that area in question looks better (or at least diff

Re: [Freesurfer] Mask from cortical parcellation

2013-09-04 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Stefano, Take a look at the lobe mapping section on this wiki page. Example commands near the end. https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/CorticalParcellation -Louis On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, std...@virgilio.it wrote: > Hi list, > I need to create a mask of frontal, parietal, temporal and occ

Re: [Freesurfer] Recon checker - actual file order disagrees with common file order

2013-09-04 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Sinead, In short, it is most likely a bug. I think the current version of the QA tools scripts expects a 5.1 recon-all stream, so the output order of files being slightly different in 5.2/5.3 causes this error/warning to appear. In the future you should just run QA tools with the -snaps-onl

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface editing

2013-08-30 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi, We figured out was the problem was. Just so others on the list are aware, when deleting voxels from the brainmask.mgz or brainmask.finalsurfs.manedit.mgz volumes in Freeview, you should verify that the deleted voxels have a value of 1, not 0. The 5.3 version of Freeview has a "Recon Edit

Re: [Freesurfer] make the annotation more transparent in freeview?

2013-08-02 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Daniel, With the volume highlighted in the side bar you should have an opacity slide bar which you can move to adjust the transparency of the volume. -Louis On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Yang, Daniel wrote: > Hi FreeSurer Expert, > > I am wondering if there is a way that the annotation can be made som

Re: [Freesurfer] Using gcut multiple times

2013-07-31 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Chris, I believe if you do not include the -clean-bm flag then it should have an effect when run multiple times. You should make a copy of the brainmask.mgz and brainmask.gcuts.mgz to compare before/after to verify if there are any differences. -Louis On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Chris Watson wrote

Re: [Freesurfer] break up time course nifti (fwd)

2013-07-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Forwarding to the list so others can chime in. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:19:38 -0400 From: Subhabrata Chaudhury To: Louis Nicholas Vinke , Aaron Tanenbaum Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] break up time course nifti Greetings Dr. Vinke and Dr. Tanenbaum,  I

Re: [Freesurfer] break up time course nifti

2013-07-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Aaron, You can use the -f or -nth flags with mri_convert. -Louis On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Aaron Tanenbaum wrote: > hola freesurfers, > I have a time course surface nii files. I would like to break up the time > course into many nii > files for each time frame. Is there an easy way of doing this.

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all stopped with error

2013-07-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Jul 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: ok, that's good.  Just make a symlink to the fsaverage dir from your subjects dir (/home/pom/Software/freesurfer/subjects) i.e. cd /home/pom/Software/freesurfer/subjects ln -s ./fsavg/fsaverage .

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all stopped with error

2013-07-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
[pom@PomLinux /home/pom]% cd fsavg [pom@PomLinux /home/pom]% ls fsaverage  fsaverage3  fsaverage4  fsaverage5  fsaverage6  lh.EC_average  rh.EC_average  V1_average thanks again. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wrote: what is fsavg in that same directory?  Maybe fsav

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all stopped with error

2013-07-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
-xr-x  2 pom pom    4096 2012-04-21 15:33 sample -rw-rw-rw-  1 pom pom 492 2012-04-21 18:43 .xdebug_tkmedit / I think it linked to itself, should I re-install freesurfer. thanks Pom On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Louis Nicholas Vinke wr

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all stopped with error

2013-07-29 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Pom, Does the following path exist? /home/pom/Software/freesurfer/subjects/fsaverage/label/ if so, do it contain lh.BA1.label? It probably has something do with the fsaverage symbolic link. A few lines up in your error log it prints "Too many levels of symbolic links". -Louis On Mon, 29

Re: [Freesurfer] WM and pial surfaces problem

2013-07-19 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Laouchedi, You'll have to run autorecon3 as well to regenerate the pial surfaces. FYI: aseg.mgz, brain.finalsurfs.mgz, wm.mgz and filled.mgz are all volumes, not surfaces. All play a part in generating the surfaces though. -Louis On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, LAOUCHEDI MAKHLOUF wrote: Hi   in fac

Re: [Freesurfer] pial surface midline fix

2013-07-18 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Jason, If the hemi masks look peculiar in the filled.mgz then you can try seed points for the corpus callosum. See this page for details, go to section titled "seed points, fill and cut". https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Edits -Louis On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Jason Tourville wrote: >

Re: [Freesurfer] Terminated Recon-all jobs

2013-07-18 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Jon, Also, delete the IsRunning.lh+rh file in the scripts recon dir, or add the '-no-isrunning' flag to the recon-all command when re-running. -Louis On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Z K wrote: > Jon, > > The way to solve this problem is to use the "nohup" command, for example: > > $nohup recon-all -s te

Re: [Freesurfer] freeview surface vertex point save?

2013-07-18 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Jason, Yes, although I think it's only an option in freeview from the 5.2/5.3 Freesurfer releases. -Louis On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Jason Tourville wrote: Hi there,The tksurfer/tkmedit combo allowed one to select and save a point on the inflated surface and then go to that point in the volume.

Re: [Freesurfer] Motion correction in recon-all

2013-07-15 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Panos, The motion correction itself is carried out using the mri_robust_template binary. The motion correction step also includes an mri_convert command to conform the volume and mri_add_xform_to_header. example taken from recon-all dev table: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReconAl

Re: [Freesurfer] Editing multiple sources of error in freesurfer

2013-07-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Ye, Is the dura in question affecting the surfaces? If so you can delete the dura, add control points and then run command 4 below. You don't need to rerun autorecon1. -Louis On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, ye tian wrote: > Dear freesurfers, > I have a subject for which I need to delete some dura in

Re: [Freesurfer] Pial surface missing parts of the brain

2013-07-11 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Ye, A couple control points should do the trick. -Louis On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, ye tian wrote: > Dear Freesurfers, > Is it true that a small piece of the brain is missing in the attached (all > three > views)? How do I correct this problem? > > Thank you very much! > > Sincerely, > Ye > > ___

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