Re: [Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-13 Thread Bruce Fischl
I think you want to use flat.[xyz], but I'm not that familiar with the patch function cheers Bruce On Wed, 13 May 2015, Sarah Finnegan wrote: Hi Bruce,  Thanks thats great to know, I have an ellipsoid fitting function ready for the job.  I've started the process of getting the occipital fla

Re: [Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-13 Thread Sarah Finnegan
Hi Bruce, Thanks thats great to know, I have an ellipsoid fitting function ready for the job. I've started the process of getting the occipital flatpatch into MATLAB following some forums posts, the best route seems to be as follows but i'm getting an error message. I can't find anyone posting

Re: [Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-12 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Sarah I don't think we have anything for ellipsoid fitting, although Oliver Hinds did some in his paper on V1. Should be straightforward enough in matlab. The data are in 2D mm coords cheers Bruce On Tue, 12 May 2015, Sarah Finnegan wrote: Hi Bruce  Thanks for the information on the fl

Re: [Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-12 Thread Sarah Finnegan
Hi Bruce Thanks for the information on the flat patch, thats great that the relationships are preserved! With that in mind do you know if freesurfer has any inbuilt functions to take the kind of measurements that I was describing? Or will my MATLAB based proposal be the best option do you thin

Re: [Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-11 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Michael I usually check visually to see if things worked. Failures occur if you dno't cut all the way through. For example, if you are cutting down the fundus of the calcarine but miss a spot so that there is a connection from upper to lower bank. You could cut down the lateral surface inst

Re: [Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-11 Thread Michael Waskom
Hi Bruce, Is there some way to know when cuts have been made correctly so that distortion can be minimized? (Or conversely, some way to know when a given patch has or will undergo "too much" distortion during flattening? Thanks! Michael On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > H

Re: [Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-11 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Sarah the unfolding tries very hard to preserve exactly this - the metric properties. If you cut off the occipital third of cortex and flatten it (after introducing some cut along the axis of the "cone") you should be able to get to around 10% distortion or below, which I assume is good en

[Freesurfer] Taking a measure of cluster width and length on flat surface

2015-05-11 Thread Sarah Finnegan
Dear all, I am looking to take two measures within the visual cortex. 1) A measure of width and length for each activation cluster overlaid onto the flattened cortical surface. 2) A measure of spacing between each cluster I can find how to take measures of area but I specifically want to know th