Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area in Toddlers/Children

2018-08-14 Thread Lilla Zollei
Hi Derek, We do not use the standard FS pipeline for the analysis of the age group of your interest. In general, we have seen it being successfully used on subjects down to 4.5yrs of age, but 25 mo is quite young to be analyzed by the adult template. I assume, without seeing your data, that yo

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area in Toddlers/Children

2018-08-10 Thread Douglas Greve
is.edu <mailto:dandr...@ucdavis.edu> *From: * on behalf of Douglas Greve *Reply-To: *Freesurfer support list *Date: *Friday, August 10, 2018 at 10:25 AM *To: *"freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" *Subject: *Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area in Toddlers/Children It should be preserving total

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area in Toddlers/Children

2018-08-10 Thread Derek Sayre Andrews
fornia Davis Telephone: +1 916 703 0360 Email: dandr...@ucdavis.edu<mailto:dandr...@ucdavis.edu> From: on behalf of Douglas Greve Reply-To: Freesurfer support list Date: Friday, August 10, 2018 at 10:25 AM To: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Su

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area in Toddlers/Children

2018-08-10 Thread Douglas Greve
It should be preserving total surface area. Can you send your mris_preproc command line and the terminal output? It might be something with 5.1 as well. On 8/9/18 3:49 PM, Derek Sayre Andrews wrote: External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer Developers and Experts, I have been ex

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area in Toddlers/Children

2018-08-09 Thread Raffington, Laurel
External Email - Use Caution Hi Derek, you could try creating a study-specific template to replace fsaverage with make_average_subject and then re-run your reconall. Best, Laurel Laurel Raffington Postdoctoral Researcher Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institu

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of a define volume projection on cortical surface

2017-06-14 Thread Douglas Greve
It will not be one surface area for all voxels, each voxel will have it's own surface area. If you have a particular voxel in mind, then you can create a volume where that voxel is 1.0 and the rest 0, then map it to the surface and to fsaverage and see how big it gets. On 6/13/17 9:26 PM, Mat

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area

2017-05-10 Thread John Anderson
rom: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas N Greve Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 5:55 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area Yes, I would recommend making some kind of adjustment. As with all su

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area

2017-05-08 Thread John Anderson
...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas N Greve Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 5:55 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area Yes, I would recommend making some kind of adjustment. As with all such adjustments, the adjustment you choose will dictate how you interpret the

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area

2017-05-08 Thread Douglas N Greve
Yes, I would recommend making some kind of adjustment. As with all such adjustments, the adjustment you choose will dictate how you interpret the results (eg, a eTIV adjustment means something different that an adjustment for whole brain volume). For surface area, I usually adjust the eTIV. It

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of an fsaverage label

2016-03-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
yes, it looks like it is correcting then. Bruce On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Jaiashre Sridhar wrote: Douglas, This is my command line: label_area lh fsaverage lh.temporalpole     Output: bash-3.2$ label_area lh fsaverage lh.temporalpole reading /Volumes/project/fsaverage/surf/lh.smoothwm... adjusti

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of an fsaverage label

2016-03-29 Thread Jaiashre Sridhar
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Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of an fsaverage label

2016-03-29 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Jaiashre, please include previous correspondences so I know the context thanks doug On 03/29/2016 02:37 PM, Jaiashre Sridhar wrote: > Douglas, > > This is my command line: > label_area lh fsaverage lh.temporalpole > > Output: > bash-3.2$ label_area lh fsaverage lh.temporalpole > reading /Volume

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of an fsaverage label

2016-03-29 Thread Jaiashre Sridhar
Douglas, This is my command line: label_area lh fsaverage lh.temporalpole Output: bash-3.2$ label_area lh fsaverage lh.temporalpole reading /Volumes/project/fsaverage/surf/lh.smoothwm... adjusting for group surface area 1.31 (82220 / 62822) fsaverage: lh.temporalpole - 512.352 square mm Thanks,

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of an fsaverage label

2016-03-29 Thread Douglas N Greve
what is your command line? On 03/28/2016 05:50 PM, Jaiashre Sridhar wrote: > Hello, > > I have used label_area to compute the surface area of a desikan label > on fsaverage. Is the correction factor taken into account during > computation with this function? > > Thanks, > Jaiashre. > > > ___

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of an fsaverage label

2016-03-28 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Jaiashre, yes, it should do the correction for average surface area, and should print out a message indicating it is doing so. Something like: adjusting for group surface area ... cheers Bruce On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, Jaiashre Sridhar wrote: Hello,  I have used label_area to compute the

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area of outer smoothed hull

2015-09-08 Thread Bruce Fischl
if it's saved as a surface you can get it from mris_anatomical_stats. If you want only a region within the surface, create a label and use the -l option cheers Bruce On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Jockwitz, Christiane wrote: Dear all,   I would like to extract the surface area from the outer smoothed

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area of outer smoothed hull

2015-09-07 Thread Marie Schaer
Hi Christiane, You can use mris_info lh.pial-outer-smoothed Best, Marie On Sep 7, 2015, at 10:57 PM, "Jockwitz, Christiane" mailto:c.jockw...@fz-juelich.de>> wrote: Dear all, I would like to extract the surface area from the outer smoothed hull of a particular region of interest that is

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area issue in longitudinal studies

2014-03-28 Thread Douglas N Greve
There is not such a script. You can do a different check though by computing the mean area on the crown and in the fundus in the native subject space, then comparing these numbers across subjects to see if the effect holds. This test gets around the problems of sampling areal measures into a s

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats

2014-03-07 Thread Douglas Greve
Greve" 发送时间: 2014年3月6日 星期四 收件人: "沈庄明" , "free surfer" 抄送: 主题: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats Hi Zhuangming, please remember to post to the list. Thanks! I don't underst

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Fischl
or surface are computed when FreeSurfer calculates the surface area.     Thanks! Zhuangming Shen [IMAGE] -原始邮件- 发件人: "Douglas Greve" 发送时间: 2014年3月6日 星期四 收件人: "沈庄明" , "free surfer" 抄送: 主题: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface a

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats

2014-03-06 Thread 沈庄明
收件人:freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu 抄送: 主题: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats By default, the surface area is computed from the white surface (ie, boundary between WM and GM). It is possible to compute it from the pial surface (ie, boundary between GM and background) doug On 3/5/14 9:14 PM,

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats

2014-03-05 Thread Douglas Greve
r@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> *抄送:* *主题:* Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats By default, the surface area is computed from the white surface (ie, boundary between WM and GM). It is possible to compute it from the pial surfa

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area in aparc stats

2014-03-05 Thread Douglas Greve
By default, the surface area is computed from the white surface (ie, boundary between WM and GM). It is possible to compute it from the pial surface (ie, boundary between GM and background) doug On 3/5/14 9:14 PM, ??? wrote: Hi all, I need to know how is the SurfArea in ?h.aparc.stats ca

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area measurement method

2013-06-10 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 06/10/2013 02:18 AM, Andreas Berger wrote: > Hi, > > basically, i would like to use the area measure for group analysis, but i'm > not sure whether that's ok to do. my questions would be: > > is it suitable for group analysis? yes > > what should i cite if i do? We don't have a citation specifi

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area measurement method

2013-06-09 Thread Andreas Berger
Hi, basically, i would like to use the area measure for group analysis, but i'm not sure whether that's ok to do. my questions would be: is it suitable for group analysis? what should i cite if i do? is surface area represented vertex-wise, with a vertex' adjacent face's area added and divide

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area measurement method

2013-06-05 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Andreas, it is not the same method but somewhat related. The method assures that total area (or volume) is preserved when mapping between subjects. How much detail do you need? doug On 06/04/2013 05:21 AM, Andreas Berger wrote: > Hello FreeSurfers, > > after reading this [1] paper about me

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area computation

2013-02-16 Thread Shantanu Ghosh
Dear Anderson, Thanks for the suggestions. I will give it a go. All the best, Shantanu On Sat, February 16, 2013 10:14 am, Anderson M. Winkler wrote: > Dear Shantanu, > > An implementation that runs in Matlab or Octave is available here: > http://brainder.org/download/areal > > I was planning t

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area computation

2013-02-16 Thread Anderson M. Winkler
Dear Shantanu, An implementation that runs in Matlab or Octave is available here: http://brainder.org/download/areal I was planning to write a compiled version that could be integrated more easily in FS. However, just by the time as the paper was published, I moved to another country and started

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area of a patch in fsaverage_sym white and pial surface

2012-09-06 Thread Douglas N Greve
Yes, it is probably best to do it with those as those have the averages across the subjects used to create the atlas. If you just use the area of the cluster on the pial, it will be somewhat smaller. doug On 09/06/2012 01:53 PM, Ritobrato Datta wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I need to dump the surfa

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-22 Thread Bruce Fischl
hmmm, something seems badly wrong here. You shouldn't have any vertex indices over 150K or so. If you load that annot file onto the surface in tksurfer does it look right? Does tksurfer complain when you try to load it? On Fri, 18 May 2012, Inês Violante wrote: Hi, It repeats this several t

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Inês Violante
Hi, It repeats this several times and MRISreadAnnotationIntoArray: vertex index out of range: 775162420 i=2E340A34, in_array_size=157940 annot file: CS/label/lh.aparc.annot MRISreadAnnotationIntoArray: vertex index out of range: 775162420 i=2E340A34, in_array_size=157940 annot file: CS/la

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Ines, this is a good thing to post to the list since there are others that might know better than me. Also, please include the full terminal output. thanks doug On 05/18/2012 11:51 AM, Inês Violante wrote: > Thanks a lot! > > Just another question: > I get this message for one of my subjec

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
yes, but you might want to change the name of the stats file so that you don't overwrite the one that is there doug On 05/18/2012 11:39 AM, Inês Violante wrote: > Thank you. > > I've tried this command: > > mris_anatomical_stats -f AC/stats/lh.aparc.stats -b -a > AC/label/lh.aparc.annot -c ./apar

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Inês Violante
Thank you. I've tried this command: mris_anatomical_stats -f AC/stats/lh.aparc.stats -b -a AC/label/lh.aparc.annot -c ./aparc.annot.ctab AC lh pial Would this be appropriate? ines On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote: > And you can get the full command line from the > $subj

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
And you can get the full command line from the $subject/scripts/recon-all.log file doug On 05/18/2012 10:41 AM, Michael Harms wrote: > The last argument of mris_anatomical_stats allows you to specify the > surface to use (pial in your case) > > cheers, > -MH > > > NAME > mris_anatomical_

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Harms
You should be able to get the correct syntax by checking the recon- all.log file for an example. cheers, -MH On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 15:48 +0100, Inês Violante wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Michael. > However, when I try to do this using the aparc.annot file: > > mris_anatomical_stats -l CS/label/lh.a

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Inês Violante
Hi, Thanks Michael. However, when I try to do this using the aparc.annot file: mris_anatomical_stats -l CS/label/lh.aparc.annot -b CS lh pial I receive this error: mris_anatomical_stats: could not scan # of lines from CS/label/lh.aparc.annot I imagine this happens because the mris_anatomical_s

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area aparc from pial surface

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Harms
The last argument of mris_anatomical_stats allows you to specify the surface to use (pial in your case) cheers, -MH NAME mris_anatomical_stats SYNOPSIS mris_anatomical_stats [options] [] On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 15:18 +0100, Inês Violante wrote: > Hi, > > I need to know the s

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area from mri_surfcluster versus mri_segstats

2011-11-30 Thread Douglas N Greve
What is your mri_segstats and mri_surfcluster cmds? The area computed from the triangles of the fsaverage subject are not representative of the average of the individual subjects that go into fsaverage. For this reason, we usually use the lh.area file inside of fsaverage to compute the area (th

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area measure

2011-10-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
I don't know if that has ever been explored. doug krista kelly wrote: > Great! Do you know if it is better to use one surface area (i.e. WM or > pial) over the other when investigating differences between groups? > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Douglas N Greve > mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area measure

2011-10-18 Thread Douglas N Greve
The white surface. doug krista kelly wrote: > When I extract surface area data using the following commands, which > measure of surface area am I getting, the pial surface, the WM > surface, or the total of both combined? > > aparcstats2table --subjects 1 2 3 4 --parc aparc.a2009 --hemi rh > -

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area interpretation confusion

2011-02-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Jürgen, that can happen if the different parts of it are differentially scaled in the spherical warp. For example if an individual has a secondary fold that is uncommon in the atlas population. cheers Bruce On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Jürgen Hänggi wrote: Dear FS experts Sorry, for reposting t

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Harms
Jeff, Posting this back to the list so that others can see your reply. cheers, -MH Forwarded Message From: Jeff Sadino To: Michael Harms Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:29:45 -1000 Hi Michael, After reading your answer

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume

2010-09-30 Thread Nick Schmansky
perhaps an alternative is to use the surface area measure of an ROI, namely the aparc regions, to conduct a group analysis, as the vertex distribution problem is averaged-out over the region. n. On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 21:02 -0700, Don Hagler wrote: > The area maps do contain the actual surface are

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume

2010-09-29 Thread Douglas Greve
The surface area is the actual area of the surface. I think you may be thinking of the jacobian, which measures the amount of stretching needed to register with the surface atlas. Total cortical volume is available from the "header" of the aseg.stats file, and that is a surface-based measure.

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume

2010-09-29 Thread Don Hagler
The area maps do contain the actual surface area of each vertex with units of mm^2. The problem is that the area at a given vertex depends on how many vertices a given patch of cortex was divided into, which is initially uniform but then varies arbitrarily due to topology correction, rend

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface-Area Weighted Average of Cortical Thickness

2010-06-29 Thread Liang, Kelvin
ne 29, 2010 5:26 PM To: Liang, Kelvin Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface-Area Weighted Average of Cortical Thickness I doubt it's going to make that much difference, but if I had to choose, I'd choose the formula that you have below (note the the areas

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface-Area Weighted Average of Cortical Thickness

2010-06-29 Thread Douglas N Greve
I doubt it's going to make that much difference, but if I had to choose, I'd choose the formula that you have below (note the the areas should be added together in the denominator). doug Liang, Kelvin wrote: > Dear FreeSurfer Experts, > > I'd like to merge my cortical thickness measures across

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of subcortical structures

2009-11-02 Thread Elizabeth Selgrade
, 2009 3:16 PM To: Douglas N Greve Cc: Elizabeth Selgrade; 'freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu' Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of subcortical structures or use mri_extract_label instead of mri_binarize, like this, to get the left hippocampus: mri_extract_label aseg.mgz 17 lh

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of subcortical structures

2009-09-16 Thread Bruce Fischl
sure, you could use mri_tessellate to cover it with triangles, then mris_info to get the surface area. You'll need to get the structure index from the FreeSurferColorLUT.txt file to pass to mri_tessellate cheers, Bruce On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Elizabeth Selgrade wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a wa

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of subcortical structures

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Schmansky
or use mri_extract_label instead of mri_binarize, like this, to get the left hippocampus: mri_extract_label aseg.mgz 17 lh.hippo.mgz mri_tessellate lh.hippo.mgz 128 lh.hippo.unsmoothed mris_smooth lh.hippo.unsmoothed lh.hippo mris_info lh.hippo |& grep total_area this seems to work. '17' is the

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of subcortical structures

2009-09-16 Thread Douglas N Greve
There's not an easy way. You could binarize the structure (mri_binarize), then build a surface around it (mri_tessellate), maybe smooth it (mris_smooth), then compute the surface area (mris_info). This would be a completely untested method though:). Elizabeth Selgrade wrote: > Hello, > > Is the

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area of ROI

2009-09-10 Thread Rudolph Pienaar
If you pass 'mris_curvature_stats' a '-l ' it will output, amongst other, the surface area of the ROI, e.g.: $>mris_curvature_stats -l rh curv (will calculate a bunch of stats on the rh.curv file of -- just ignore and look for:) ... ... ROI Surface Area: ... ... -=R Barnali Basu wrote

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area and curvature

2009-04-29 Thread roberto toro
this reference may be relevant: Discrete Differential-Geometry Operators for Triangulated 2-Manifolds (Mark Meyer, Mathieu Desbrun, Peter Schröder and Alan H. Barr), VisMath 2002 the pdf is available at: www.multires.caltech.edu/pubs cheers, roberto On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Richard Frye

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area and curvature

2009-04-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
not that I know of. Bruce On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Richard Frye wrote: What is the best reference regarding the calculation of surface area and surface curvature and are there any studies looking at the reliability of these measures? Thanks Best Wishes, Richard E. Frye, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.P. Assi

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area measurement

2008-09-03 Thread Allison Stevens
You'll find surface area measurements for each cortical parcellation area in your ?h.aparc.stats file within the stats directory for each subject. Allison On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Barkay, Gavriel wrote: Can I do surface area measurement using freesurfer? -- Gavriel Barkay M.D. M.Sc. Psychopharmaco

RE: [Freesurfer] surface area

2007-02-23 Thread Bruce Fischl
I agree. You could look at the jacobians across subjects, which will sort of get at what you want, or surface area by parcellation unit is a good idea. On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Don Hagler wrote: Just a comment: Surface area on a vertex-wise basis doesn't seem very informative. Before topology fi

RE: [Freesurfer] surface area

2007-02-23 Thread Don Hagler
Just a comment: Surface area on a vertex-wise basis doesn't seem very informative. Before topology fixing, the surface area should be about the same for all vertices (differences should be more or less random). Topology fixing will add or remove vertices, so the surface area in a "fixed" regi

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area

2007-02-22 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Aaron, they are generated from the ?h.white and the ?h.pial surfaces, and should be what you want. cheers, Bruce On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Goldman, Aaron (NIH/NIMH) [C] wrote: Hi, I was interested in comparing surface area between two groups on a node-by-node basis (something like average are

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area

2007-02-22 Thread Doug Greve
Yes, that is exactly what this is. You can run mris_preproc with --meas area and then continue with mri_glmfit just as if you were doing a thickness analysis. doug Goldman, Aaron (NIH/NIMH) [C] wrote: Hi, I was interested in comparing surface area between two groups on a node-by-node ba

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area

2006-06-29 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Sasha, it uses the ?h.white by default, but you can change that by giving mris_anatomical_stats an additional argument (e.g. ?h.pial) at the end of the cmd line Bruce On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Sasha Wolosin wrote: Dear all, Are the regional surface areas computed by mris_anatomical_stats usin

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area

2006-06-29 Thread Sasha Wolosin
Thanks. Can I make mris_anatomical_stats use the pial surface instead? >>> Doug Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/29/2006 1:29 pm >>> White. doug Sasha Wolosin wrote: >Dear all, > Are the regional surface areas computed by mris_anatomical_stats >using the ?h.white surface or the ?h.pial surface? >T

Re: [Freesurfer] surface area

2006-06-29 Thread Doug Greve
White. doug Sasha Wolosin wrote: Dear all, Are the regional surface areas computed by mris_anatomical_stats using the ?h.white surface or the ?h.pial surface? Thanks, Sasha Disclaimer: The materials in this e-mail are private and may contain Protected Health Information. Please note that