Hi Mageshwar
gcs is a surface-based format for cortical segmentation. And it wouldn't be
a conversion as much as it would be a training. If you can sample your
regions onto the surface in .annot format you can use mris_ca_train to
build a new gcs that you can then apply with mris_ca_label
cheers
Bruce
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Mageshwar Selvakumar wrote:
> Dear Bruce,Â
>
> We would like to use a probabilistic atlas built upon by us (with 170 regions) on top of the harvard
> oxford atlas and would like to use this extended atlas to perform segmentation and analysis on
> freesurfer. We have these 170 regions in 170 different nifti files. I would like to know if we could
> use these regions in .nii or .mgz format and convert it to gcs format.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Â
> Kind regards
> Mageshwar Selvakumar, M.Sc
> Department of Pharmakologische Bildgebung und Bildanalyse
> Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg
>
> Office: Fahrstr. 17, 91054 Erlangen
> Phone:Â + 49-9131-8522898
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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> Bruce Fischl <fischl(a)nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 3:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] query regarding creating an atlas from nifti volumes. Â
> Hi Mageshwar
>
> what kind of an atlas are you talking about? We have multiple atlases for
> different purposes.
>
> cheers
> Bruce
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Mageshwar Selvakumar wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am a newbie to freesurfer and I would like to use our in-house built probabilistic atlas(each
> > region as a binary mask and available as nifti files). I would like to create an atlas out of it
> and
> > use it for our analysis. On searching the previous mailing list I came across a discussion where
> the
> > volume information was converted into surface information and can be converted to labels and
> > annotations but I couldn't find much documentation on creating an atlas directly from the volume
> or
> > surface information. It would be nice if someone can point me out if this is possible and some
> > relevant information to continue on it.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Mageshwar Selvakumar, M.Sc
> >
> > Department of Pharmakologische Bildgebung und Bildanalyse
> >
> > Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg
> >
> >
> > Office: Fahrstr. 17, 91054 Erlangen
> >
> > Phone:Â + 49-9131-8522898
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>