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Re: [Freesurfer] Updating stats from 4.2 to 4.5
by Judith Segall 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi Freesurfer community. We have run several hundred subjects though freesurfer using version 4.2 with additional bug patches for the aparcstats2table bug. We would like to update our stats from aparc.a2005s to the aparc.a2009s atlas. Is this possible? If so, what is the appropriate command? Is this methodologically sound? Aside from longitudinal analysis streams, I am not seeing any large differences between 4.2 and 4.5, but wanted to make sure. Thanks for help on this. - Judith S Mind Research Network

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-autorecon-all error
by Evangelou, Iordanis (NIH/NINDS) [E] 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi all I am using freesurfer 4.5.0 and i get the following message after i execute recon-all -s 10272009 -autorecon-all #@# Nu Intensity Correction Tue Jan 26 08:18:31 EST 2010 mri_nu_correct.mni --i orig.mgz --o nu.mgz --n 2 opening /usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/FreeSurferEnv.ninds Setting=up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL) FREESURFER_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0 FSFAST_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/fsfast FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT=nii SUBJECTS_DIR=/home/evangeloui/freesurfer/subjects MNI_DIR=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/mni FSL_DIR=/usr/local/fsl opening /usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/FreeSurferEnv.ninds Setting=up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL) FREESURFER_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0 FSFAST_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/fsfast FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT=nii SUBJECTS_DIR=/home/evangeloui/freesurfer/subjects MNI_DIR=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/mni FSL_DIR=/usr/local/fsl ERROR: flag opening not recognized #-------------------------------------------- #@# Talairach Tue Jan 26 08:18:31 EST 2010 /home/evangeloui/freesurfer/subjects/10272009/mri talairach_avi --i nu.mgz --xfm transforms/talairach.auto.xfm opening /usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/FreeSurferEnv.ninds Setting=up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL) FREESURFER_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0 FSFAST_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/fsfast FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT=nii SUBJECTS_DIR=/home/evangeloui/freesurfer/subjects MNI_DIR=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/mni FSL_DIR=/usr/local/fsl opening /usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/FreeSurferEnv.ninds Setting=up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL) FREESURFER_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0 FSFAST_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/fsfast FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT=nii SUBJECTS_DIR=/home/evangeloui/freesurfer/subjects MNI_DIR=/usr/local/freesurfer-4.5.0/mni FSL_DIR=/usr/local/fsl ERROR: flag opening not recognized cp transforms/talairach.auto.xfm transforms/talairach.xfm cp: cannot stat `transforms/talairach.auto.xfm': No such file or directory any help would be appreciated thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------- Iordanis E. Evangelou, DPhil Staff Scientist Neuroimmunology Branch National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institutes of Health Building 10, Room 5C203B Bethesda, MD 20892

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Using Clusters as ROIs
by Dankner, Nathan (NIH/NIMH) [F] 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hello all, I sent this last week but I think it may have slipped through the cracks. I have recently run a cluster correction on some data, and was hoping to use these clusters as ROIs and pull stats from them. What is the best way to do so? Thank you in advance for your help, Nathan

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Re: [Freesurfer] images with poor resolution
by Nick Schmansky 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Dana, First I would run: recon-all -s subid -clean to remove any prior control points and edits. Then I would open nu.mgz: tkmedit subjid nu.mgz and *sparingly* put control points well into white matter areas on a few different slices. you only need a half dozen or so. to add control points, see: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/ControlPoints except you will add them to nu.mgz, to make sure that T1.mgz gets created properly. Then create a file name xopts.txt containing these lines: mri_normalize -gentle Then run: recon-all -s subjid -autorecon1 -expert <path_to>/xopts.txt and when done, open brainmask.mgz tkmedit subjid brainmask.mgz and check again to get a sense of the low value for white matter and high value for gray matter, then run: recon-all -s subjid -autorecon2 -seg-wlo wlo -seg-ghi ghi replacing wlo and ghi with those values. if the surfaces still look bad, you can add a line to the xopts.txt file : mris_make_surfaces -max_gray val -min_gray_at_white_border val replacing the two 'val's with something you find appropriate, then run: recon-all -s subjid -autorecon2-pial -autorecon3 \ -expert <path_to>/xopts.txt good luck! Nick On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:56 -0400, Dana W. Moore wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Below is Bruce's response to a problem I'm having with the gray/white > segmentation. (Pasted below, you can see the brainmask.mgz volume and > surfaces--the entire brain is labeled as white matter). I could use > some guidance in carrying out his advice. He says to adjust the > intensity normalization using control points and then use expert opts > for mri_segment and mris_make_surfaces. > > When I look at the brain.mgz volume, the white matter tends to have an > intensity of 110, as it should, but the gray matter at times goes as > high as 115. I was thinking, I could set ghi to 115 and wlo to 110. > Then, I am not sure how to actually run the corrections and what > language to use to implement the control points and mri_segment > adjustments. I will save control points and then run: recon-all > -autorecon2-cp -autorecon3 -subjed <subject>. Can I somehow include > the mri_segment adjustments into this command, or do I have to run > that separately? > > I am also not sure how options for mris_make_surfaces might help. > > I appreciate your help with this! > > Thanks, > dana > > > > > [] > > At 04:40 PM 10/2/2009, Bruce Fischl wrote: > > Hi Dana, > > > > it looks like the gray/white density estimation failed. Try setting > > them with the expert opts for mri_segment and mris_make_surfaces > > (Nick can point you in the right direction if you can't figure it > > out). Things like max gm at white border and such. > > > > cheers, > > Bruce > > > p.s. it also looks like the intensity normalization went too far due > to the low contrast. You'll probably need to add some control points > and run it with the -gentle option > > > > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Dana W. Moore wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I am trying to salvage some images that were done with poor > > > gray/white boundary contrasts. First, FreeSurfer includes an area > > > of dura in the skull strip. I tried adjusting the watershed but > > > it made no differences. FreeSurfer is subsequently unable to > > > detect the gray/white boundary and labels the dura as cortex: > > > > > > [] > > > > > > > > > > > > Looking at the raw images, the gray/white boundaries are faint but > > > visible. Is there anything I can adjust to try to make this work > > > with FreeSurfer? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dana > > > > > > > > > Dana W. Moore, Ph.D. > > > Neuropsychology Fellow > > > Cornell Neuropsychology Service > > > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > > > New York Presbyterian Hospital > > > Department of Neurology & Neuroscience > > > 428 East 72nd Street, Suite 500 > > > New York, NY 10021 > > > Phone: 212-746-2823 > > > Fax: 212-746-5584 > > > Email: dwm2003(a)med.cornell.edu > > Dana W. Moore, Ph.D. > Neuropsychology Fellow > Cornell Neuropsychology Service > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > New York Presbyterian Hospital > Department of Neurology & Neuroscience > 428 East 72nd Street, Suite 500 > New York, NY 10021 > Phone: 212-746-2823 > Fax: 212-746-5584 > Email: dwm2003(a)med.cornell.edu > >

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selxavg3-sess questions
by Sebastian Moeller 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi List, hi Doug, I just started to use freesurfer 4.5.0 for functional data (before I only used 3.0.5). Now I see that the whole analysis workflow has changed from mkanalysis-sess.new -> selxavg-sess -> mkcontrast-sess -> stxgrinder-sess to mkanalyss-sess -> mkcontrast-sess -> selxavg3-sess, now what happens when I want to add/change contrasts after running selxavg3-sess? Do I still run stxgrinder-sess or rerun selxavg3-sess (can I avoid recalculating the full GLM)? And more interesting, I seem to use mkanalysis-sess.new incorrectly as I get much worse results from the selxavh3 analysis than from the old one. Is there anything special to take into consideration of non human primate analysis (I already fix up the gamma function and autocorrelation timewindows to reflect the use of mion in monkeys). If anyone has a good idea what to try I am all ears... best Sebastian

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Re: [Freesurfer] Flip surface model
by Jürgen Hänggi 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi Bruce, Doug, and Mert Thanks a lot Regards Jürgen On [DATE], "Bruce Fischl" <[ADDRESS]> wrote: > I'll take that to mean "no,I don't have anything I am comfortable > distributing yet" :) > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Douglas N Greve wrote: > >> I've been working on this piece-meal. I think it's a bad idea to just throw >> stuff out there without testing it. It will instantly become the standard and >> then it will be a mess to try to undo. >> >> Bruce Fischl wrote: >>> I see, so you don't want to flip it, you want to register left and right. >>> Mert and Doug: do either of you have stuff you would be comfortable >>> distributing yet? >>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Jürgen Hänggi wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Bruce >>>> >>>> We investigated patients with unilateral pain. For some patients, the pain >>>> was on the left side, for others it was on the right side. We would like >>>> to >>>> do a group analysis on cortical thickness maps vertex-wisely but we do not >>>> know whether it is possible to flip a surface model (e.g. the left >>>> cortical >>>> thickness map) so that we can pool patients with pain on the left with the >>>> patients who have pain on the right. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Jürgen >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On [DATE], "Bruce Fischl" <[ADDRESS]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Jürgen, >>>>> >>>>> why would you flip the MR? What problem are you trying to solve? >>>>> >>>>> Bruce >>>>> On Thu, 21 >>>>> Jan 2010, Jürgen Hänggi wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Dear FS experts >>>>>> >>>>>> As far as I know from Doug, there are preliminary tools for flipping a >>>>>> surface model (reversing left and right hemisphere) >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg11896.html >>>>>> >>>>>> Because these tools are not yet available I would like to know whether >>>>>> you >>>>>> would recommend to flip the raw MR image and the running recon-all on >>>>>> this >>>>>> flipped MR image. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance >>>>>> Best regards >>>>>> Jürgen >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> --- >>>>>> Jürgen Hänggi, Ph.D. >>>>>> Division Neuropsychology >>>>>> Institute of Psychology >>>>>> University of Zurich >>>>>> Binzmuehlestrasse 14, PO Box 25 >>>>>> 8050 Zurich, Switzerland >>>>>> 0041 44 635 73 97 (phone office) >>>>>> 0041 76 445 86 84 (phone mobile) >>>>>> 0041 44 635 74 09 (fax office) >>>>>> BIN 4.D.04 (office room number) >>>>>> j.haenggi[at]psychologie.uzh.ch (email) >>>>>> http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/neuropsy/ (website) >>>>>> http://www.juergenhaenggi.ch (private website) >>>>>> >>>>>> This e-mail (and any attachment/s) contains confidential and/or >>>>>> privileged >>>>>> information. 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a question about control points
by Guang Zeng 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi, there, I have some scans which have poor white matter and gray matter contrast, and the results of the intensity normalization step are pretty bad. So I add some controls, the results looks much better now. But I met a question now, I sent these results-improved subjects to FS longitudinal stream without those controls points, the longitudinal results are as bad as before. My command line is: recon-all -base subj_based_id -tp subj1 -tp subj2 -all recon-all -long subj1 subj_base -all recon-all -long subj2 subj_base -all I think the problem is the FS surfer longitudinal stream will copy the orig.mgz of each time point, map them to the base template, and then go through FS stream again. How can I map my added control points to the base template, and use them in the longitudinal stream, or I should map it to somewhere at the recon-all -base subj_based_id -tp subj1 -tp subj2 -all step. Thanks! Guang _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/

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some questions about group analysis
by liyari5018 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi all, When I completed the recommended recon-all step, I want to get the volume(or size) of amygdala for ecah individual subject and to do correlation analysis with psychological scale, how can I do this ??? For a group level analysis , should i do some head size correction befor ??? Thanks for your reply!!! L J

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inflation error
by Davide Rivolta 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Dear all, I am quite a new Freesurfer user and I am having a problem with the brain inflation. This is the error message: ERROR: talairach_afd: Talairach Transform: transforms/talairach.xfm ***FAILED*** (p=0.0034, pval=0.000 < threshold=0.0050) recon-all exited with ERRORS at Mon Dec... I am not sure why because I have used the same procedure without problems for many other participants. Thanks for your help, Regards Davide

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White matter edits and talairach.xfm
by Jesse Bledsoe 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hello FreeSurfer experts, I have been reconstructing many brains and noticed that the surfaces are quite bumpy. Here are a few things I have done to fix or understand more about the consistently bumpy surfaces I seem to generate after reconstruction: 1) Checked the talairach.xfm files with tkmedit and tkregister2 (it looked fine in all planes) 2) I have run mri_convert on original, talairach, and ac-pc aligned dicoms (Bruce, you were right, there did not appear to be any improvement from the original. Actually, the originals produced fewer surface errors). I have attached four .jpg images of white matter errors (bumps) in both tksurfer and tkmedit views with the same white matter points. Can you tell me if you see any errors in tkmedit that I am missing? I dont' seem to see any considerable pial/white matter inconsistencies yet continue to produce very bumpy surfaces. Also, why do some brains produce more bumps than others? I realize that a bad talairach may cause errors but my talairachs seem to be fine. Thanks in advance for all of your time, Jesse

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