Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-30 Thread Nick Oosterhof
On 29 Jul 2015, at 20:57, John Baublitz jb...@bu.edu wrote: Thank you very much for the support. Unfortunately I have tried using this GIFTI file that it outputs with FreeSurfer as an overlay and surface Both at the same time? and it throws errors for all FreeSurfer utils and even AFNI

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-29 Thread John Baublitz
Thank you very much for the support. Unfortunately I have tried using this GIFTI file that it outputs with FreeSurfer as an overlay and surface and it throws errors for all FreeSurfer utils and even AFNI utils. FreeSurfer mris_convert outputs: mriseadGIFTIfile: mris is NULL! found when parsing

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-28 Thread Nick Oosterhof
On 23 Jul 2015, at 17:38, Nick Oosterhof n.n.ooster...@googlemail.com wrote: is there a utility to convert from SUMA surface files to FreeSurfer surface files included in PyMVPA? ConvertDset (included with AFNI) can convert between NIML and GIFTI, and mris_convert (included with

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-23 Thread John Baublitz
Thank you for the quick response. I tried outputting a surface file file before using both niml.write() and surf.write() as my lab would prefer to visualize the results on the surface. I mentioned this in a previous email and was told that I should be using niml.write() and visualize using SUMA. I

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-23 Thread Christopher J Markiewicz
On 07/23/2015 06:45 AM, Nick Oosterhof wrote: On 22 Jul 2015, at 20:11, John Baublitz jb...@bu.edu wrote: I have been battling with a surface searchlight that has been taking 6 to 8 hours for a small dataset. It outputs a usable analysis but the time it takes is concerning given that our

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-23 Thread Nick Oosterhof
On 23 Jul 2015, at 17:43, John Baublitz jb...@bu.edu wrote: The error upon executing suma -spec sl.dset is: Error SUMA_Read_SpecFile: Your spec file contains uncommented gibberish: AFNI_dataset Please deal with it. Error SUMA_Engine: Error in SUMA_Read_SpecFile. You cannot use NIML

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-23 Thread Nick Oosterhof
On 23 Jul 2015, at 16:46, Christopher J Markiewicz effig...@bu.edu wrote: To clarify, are you saying that using SurfaceVerticesQueryEngine runs the classifiers (or other measure) on sets of vertices, not sets of voxels? No, the *input* for classification (or other measure) is from voxels

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-23 Thread Nick Oosterhof
On 23 Jul 2015, at 16:47, John Baublitz jb...@bu.edu wrote: Thank you for the quick response. I tried outputting a surface file file before using both niml.write() and surf.write() as my lab would prefer to visualize the results on the surface. I mentioned this in a previous email and

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-23 Thread John Baublitz
The error upon executing suma -spec sl.dset is: Error SUMA_Read_SpecFile: Your spec file contains uncommented gibberish: AFNI_dataset Please deal with it. Error SUMA_Engine: Error in SUMA_Read_SpecFile. I followed the tutorial on how to generate this so I'm not sure if this is a bug or maybe a

Re: [pymvpa] Surface searchlight taking 6 to 8 hours

2015-07-23 Thread Nick Oosterhof
On 22 Jul 2015, at 20:11, John Baublitz jb...@bu.edu wrote: I have been battling with a surface searchlight that has been taking 6 to 8 hours for a small dataset. It outputs a usable analysis but the time it takes is concerning given that our lab is looking to use even higher resolution