[Freesurfer] Intracranial Volume

2017-11-23 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, Just a quick question regarding the computed intracranial volume. I have ran Freesurfer version 5.1 and I have been using the intracranial volume from the aseg.stats file to correct for head size. I just want to ensure this is where I get the intracranial volume from. Thank you in advance

Re: [Freesurfer] Ventricle Volumes Decreasing over time?

2017-09-06 Thread Tamara Tavares
list Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Hi Tamara have you visualized the multiple time points of a subject whose ventricular volume is decreasing? How big a decrease are you seeing? cheers Bruce On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Tamara Tavares wrote: > Hello,

[Freesurfer] Ventricle Volumes Decreasing over time?

2017-09-05 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I used the default longitudinal stream to calculate ventricular volumes over time. When I examined the difference score (longitudinal-baseline) I noticed that for some participants ventricular volumes *decreased*. The same site, scanner and scanning protocol was used for both baseline and l

[Freesurfer] Clarification for aseg edits in longitudinal phase

2017-07-24 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I have made edits to aseg files in the longitudinal outputs (participantID.long.participantID-temp). I am beginning the reconstruction phase and as suggested by a response to an earlier post I am running: recon-all -long tpN1 template ID -autorecon2-noaseg -autorecon3, where tpN1 is cross-s

[Freesurfer] smoothing data

2017-07-10 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hi All, I was hoping someone can help me with two naive questions I have: I have read on the Freesufer wiki that you should smooth surface data before analyzing. Should I smooth the data only after I have ran recon-all and have made edits? Also, should volumetric data be smoothed or is this limit

Re: [Freesurfer] Question regarding Qdec in Cortical thickness and Ventricular Volume Analysis

2017-06-12 Thread Tamara Tavares
09:51 AM, Douglas Greve wrote: > >The data does not necessarily need to be smoothed, but people usually do because it improves stats. But I thought you were doing an ROI analysis based on the first question > > On 6/6/17 11:50 AM, Tamara Tavares wrote: >> Hello, >>

Re: [Freesurfer] Question regarding Qdec in Cortical thickness and Ventricular Volume Analysis

2017-06-09 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hi Douglas, The message stream indicates you replied to my email but I don't see your response in the email thread. I am not sure what happened. Can you please reply again? Thank you, Tamara On 6/6/17 11:50 AM, Tamara Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I have ran my data through the def

[Freesurfer] Question regarding Qdec in Cortical thickness and Ventricular Volume Analysis

2017-06-06 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I have ran my data through the default recon-all processing stream and am planning on analyzing ventricular volume and cortical thickness. I was wondering whether I need to use the Qdec to complete the ventricular volume and cortical thickness analysis, or can I export the data (txt files f

[Freesurfer] Report indicating aseg edits

2017-03-13 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I am currently checking and editing the aseg outputs in my longitudinal data. I was wondering whether Freesurfer offers a report indicating the edits I have made to aseg output. Thank you, Tamara ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.har

[Freesurfer] Edits to Aseg in the Longitudinal Stream

2017-01-30 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, After I make edits to my aseg output in the longitudinal stream, do I just run the following command to recreate the final volumes: recon-long -autorecon2-noaseg -subjid I assume the -subjid is the name of the edited time point and is the name of the recreated volumes? Thank you, Tamar

[Freesurfer] Voxel intensities and aseg edits

2017-01-26 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I have two questions which I was hoping to get some help with. (1) I was wondering whether there was a intensity threshold for grey matter and CSF. I know that Freesurfer scales the intensity so white matter has an intensity of 110 (as can be seen at the bottom of Freeviewer when I open th

[Freesurfer] Edits to aseg [repost]

2017-01-23 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, After I make edits to my aseg output in the longitudinal stream, do I just run the following command to recreate the final volumes: recon-long -autorecon2-noaseg -subjid I assume the -subjid is the name of the edited time point and is the name of the recreated volumes? Thank you, Tamar

[Freesurfer] Edits to aseg

2017-01-20 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, After I make edits to my aseg output in the longitudinal stream, do I just run the following command to recreate the final volumes: recon-long -autorecon2-noaseg -subjid I assume the -subjid is the name of the edited time point and is the name of the recreated volumes? Thank you, Tamar

Re: [Freesurfer] Brighter image at baseline vs. follow up using longitudinal processing stream

2017-01-13 Thread Tamara Tavares
nds some scaling (approx 1% in each axis direction, so a total of 3%). This can happen in individual cases, but if it is consistent I would be worried. Best, Martin > On 11 Jan 2017, at 21:21, Tamara Tavares wrote: > > Hi Dr. Reuter. > > Thank you again for your help.

[Freesurfer] Viewing Atlas for Cortical Parcellations

2017-01-12 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I was wondering whether it is possible to view the atlases that are used to construct the cortical surface ROIs in a visualization program? Thank you in advance for your help. Best, Tamara ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.e

Re: [Freesurfer] Brighter image at baseline vs. follow up using longitudinal processing stream

2017-01-11 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hi Dr. Reuter. Thank you again for your help. I ran the following command: "mri_robust_register --mov rawavg_1.mgz --dst rawavg_2.mgz --lta v1to2.lta --affine --satit" on the two rawavg.mgz images; one from each time point from the cross-sectional outputs. I have attached the information from the

Re: [Freesurfer] Brighter image at baseline vs. follow up using longitudinal processing stream

2017-01-09 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hi Dr. Reuter, Thank you for the clarification. The differences I am seeing are also in the T1.mgz file in the longitudinal run folder. I assume it is okay to use the T1.mgz from the longitudinal outputs as the original image as I can easily compare the same slice across different time points? A

Re: [Freesurfer] Brighter image at baseline vs. follow up using longitudinal processing stream

2016-12-20 Thread Tamara Tavares
Thank you for your reply Dr. Reuter. I have about 3 scans in which the acquisition parameters are slightly different between time 1 and time 2 which probably contributes to these differences. Do you recommend that I do not use these scans? For my other scans, sometimes the differences in intensit

[Freesurfer] Brighter image at baseline vs. follow up using longitudinal processing stream

2016-12-08 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I am in the process of checking the alignment of my participant's baseline and followup scans to the template scan using the norm.mgz files. I notice that sometimes the image appears brighter in the first scan vs. the second follow up scan. Is this problematic? I don't see any clear distort

[Freesurfer] Large Ventricles

2016-11-11 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I have a participant who has very large ventricles and as a result, there are substantial errors in the aseg output. Looking at the mailing list, I see that the newest version of Freesurfer is suppose to be better at handling large ventricles; however, I want to be consistent with the Frees

Re: [Freesurfer] Questions about outputs in Longitudinal Stream

2016-11-10 Thread Tamara Tavares
Thank you for the clarification Martin I have a follow-up question. When I load the base to make sure it doesn't look blurry, should I check the norm.mgz or brainmask.mgz? Online says norm.mgz but I just want to make sure. Also, would the "blurriness" be obvious? Similarly, when I open the base

Re: [Freesurfer] Questions about outputs in Longitudinal Stream

2016-11-01 Thread Tamara Tavares
Thank you for the clarification Martin I have a follow-up question. When I load the base to make sure it doesn't look blurry, should I check the norm.mgz or brainmask.mgz? Online says norm.mgz but I just want to make sure. Similarly, when I open the base and the longitudinal runs to see whether

[Freesurfer] Protocol for Ventricle Segmentation

2016-10-25 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I am wondering where I find the protocol used to segment the ventricles for Freesurfer version 5.1. Looking at the citations in Fischl et al 2002, I have found some information regarding the segmentation of the surfaces and some subcortical areas but not the ventricles. I was hoping to comp

[Freesurfer] Questions about outputs in Longitudinal Stream

2016-10-19 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I am interested in looking at ventricular changes over time and thus, have ran the longitudinal stream on my participants scans. As suggested online, I am checking the ventricular segmentation in the longitudinal outputs and am planning on making any edits to the longitudinal stream if the

[Freesurfer] Question regarding Checking Longitudinal Runs: Repost

2016-10-17 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I have a question regarding the outputs to the longitudinal processing stream. I ran my two participant's scans through the Cross, then created a Base and two longitudinal runs. I am primarily interested in looking at ventricular change over time. Other than the aseg output overlaid on the

[Freesurfer] Checking Longitudinal Runs

2016-10-12 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello Experts, I have a question regarding the outputs to the longitudinal processing stream. I ran my two participant's scans through the Cross, then created a Base and two longitudinal runs. I am primarily interested in looking at ventricular change over time. Other than the aseg output overlai

Re: [Freesurfer] Re Re Re Re: Question regarding mri_convert

2016-09-29 Thread Tamara Tavares
wrote: > > I don't understand what the problem is. Can you elaborate? > > > On 9/27/16 12:13 PM, Tamara Tavares wrote: > The differences have been found in the outputs from the aseg > file. Particularly, I am interested in the ventricles and the >

[Freesurfer] Re Re Re Re: Question regarding mri_convert

2016-09-27 Thread Tamara Tavares
The differences have been found in the outputs from the aseg file. Particularly, I am interested in the ventricles and the intracranial volumes. I have loaded both anatomicals in FreeView and toggled between them and have found no differences visually. I have attached the files (Via Google Drive s

[Freesurfer] Re Re: Question regarding mri_convert

2016-09-26 Thread Tamara Tavares
Thank you Bruce! Theoretically, I should get the same results if I pass my nii file through the recon-all command if I converted my dicom/IMA file into a nii using Slicer4 or the mri convert command? I did this and I got different volumes. Thank you, Tamara ___

[Freesurfer] Question regarding mri_convert

2016-09-23 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hi All, I have been using the following command line to convert my dcm/IMA files into a nii files. mri_convert -it dicom x.dcm .nii (where are the name of my files) I realized now that I did not specify the output file type (-ot nii) before the file name. Is this a big concern or a

[Freesurfer] Re Re: Extracting aseg.stats data

2016-09-08 Thread Tamara Tavares
That seemed to work, thank you! Tamara ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If yo

[Freesurfer] Extracting aseg.stats data

2016-09-07 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello, I am trying to extract the volumes from the aseg file of multiple subjects using the command: asegstats2table --subjects C9F03_1 C9F03_2 C9F07_1 --meas volume --tablefile aseg_stats_test.txt I keep getting the following error: SUBJECTS_DIR : home/bmiadmin/Tamara/FreeSurfer_GENFI/analysis

Re: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer Digest, Vol 149, Issue 31

2016-07-18 Thread Tamara Tavares
the surface outputs are used the calculate the structure's volumes? I am fairly new to Freesurfer so I am trying to get a good understanding of it. Thank you in advance, Tamara --- Tamara Tavares, HBSc <http://H.B.Sc> PhD Candidate Brain and Mind Institute, Department of Neuroscience T

[Freesurfer] Re Re: Checking Surfaces vs. aseg outputs

2016-07-18 Thread Tamara Tavares
Thank you again Bruce. Since I am primarily interested in ventricular volume, do you think it is necessary to check the the brainmask.mgz for bright or dark spots indicating an intensity normalization error? As well, what about a skull strip error such as removal of brain tissue? I have noticed th

[Freesurfer] Checking Surfaces vs. aseg outputs

2016-07-15 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hi All, I was hoping to get some help with understanding the surface and aseg volumes. I have some patient's scans and I am interested in examining the ventricular volume but may look at other areas later on. I understand from earlier threads that it is important to check the surface volumes (pial

[Freesurfer] FOV Size Discrepancy

2016-07-07 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello! I was hoping someone can provide me with some clarification on an issue I have been having with the FOV size. I have a database of scans which I am running through recon-all cross-sectionally. The majority of the scans have an FOV of 256x256x208; however, when I run them through recon-all

[Freesurfer] REPOST: Longitudinal Stream: Recon-all and template

2016-06-30 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello All, I am planning to run the longitudinal stream on my data set and I have a few questions: 1) When I run the data cross sectionally using "recon-all -all" should I specify all my subject's T1 volumes (using the -file1.nii -1file2.nii) or can I run each of my subject's T1 volumes individua

[Freesurfer] Longitudinal Stream: Recon-all and Base template

2016-06-28 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello All, I am planning to run the longitudinal stream on my data set and I have a few questions: 1) When I run the data cross sectionally using "recon-all -all" should I specify all my subject's T1 volumes (using the -file1.nii -1file2.nii) or can I run each of my subject's T1 volumes individua

[Freesurfer] recon-all deprecated error

2016-05-27 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello All, I am currently using Freesurfer version 5.1 and when I run the recon-all command I get the following warning message: Use of ?PATTERN? without explicit operator is deprecated at /usr/local/freesurfer/mni/bin/sharpen_volume line 153. Recon-all continues to run and finishes completely wit

Re: [Freesurfer] Volumetric Data Discrepancies

2016-05-12 Thread Tamara Tavares
uctures. > > -Zeke > > > > On 05/12/2016 10:20 AM, Tamara Tavares wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I was hoping someone would be able to shed some light on an issue I have >> been having concerning the volumetric data calculated by FreeSurfer >> (version 5

[Freesurfer] Volumetric Data Discrepancies

2016-05-12 Thread Tamara Tavares
Hello All, I was hoping someone would be able to shed some light on an issue I have been having concerning the volumetric data calculated by FreeSurfer (version 5.3) using the asegstats output file. For information purposes, I am currently using the following command line: recon-all –I [path] –s –