Hi Jon,
I'll leave this to Krish, as he's the local expert on mris_volmask, but
it definitely could. Do you want to upload an example of a subject that
failed for us to try out?
Bruce
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Jonathan Winawer wrote:
> Hmm. At least when I use tkmedit, the surfaces seem to be correctly
> registered to both the high resolution volume (rawavg.mgz) and the 1x1x1
> volume (T1.mgz). So it does not look like a coordinate problem, at least to
> my un-expert eyes. But maybe tkmedit does a different transform of the
> surfaces than mris_volmask?
>
> In any case, the failure of mris_volmask to produce a good ribbon file
> follows a very characteristic pattern that looks more like a topology
> confusion to me, as you can see in the attached png. I say this because
> voxels along the gray-white border are labeled white (with some gaps) and
> voxels along the pial surface are labeled as gray. Also, some of the regions
> which are unlabeled holes in the correct (original) ribbon become labeled
> islands in the new, high-res ribbon. So it looks like the surfaces are in the
> right place, but they are somehow not filled in correctly. This precise
> pattern happens with every high-resolution brain I use when I try to re-run
> mris_volmask. In contrast when I rerun mris_volmask on bert, it works
> perfectly, though in this case the rawavg.mgz is already registered to T1.mgz
> and has the same resolution.
>
> Could a coordinate problem cause this?
>
> Sorry for all the questions. I seem to be stuck though. Many thanks again
> for your quick responses!
>
> Jon
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