it depends on what measures you want
Bruce
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Valtina Pouegue 
wrote:
 
> Hi Bruces, 
> It's because i'm doing a comparison between brainsuite and freesrufer. So , I would like to export results of
> segmentation with Brainsuite and make measurements with FreeSurfer. In Fact, with freesurfer I can have more parameters
> than with freesurfer. 
> Does it exist another way for get measurements with surfaces ( not generated by Freesurfer)? 
> Thx . 
> 
> VP
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:38:26 -0400
> From: fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> To: pvaltti@hotmail.com
> CC: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Brainsuite --> FreeSurfer
> 
> Hi Valtina
> 
> you can try opening it with freeview if all you want is visualization. If 
> you are trying to produce anatomical stats you will need a lot more than 
> just the pial surface, as mris_anatomical_stats computes many things from 
> an array of inputs (such as the wm.mgz, the aseg.mgz, etc....). Why not 
> just run recon-all and generate them?
> Bruce
>
> 
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Valtina Pouegue wrote:
> 
> > I could  see the  created surface in MAtlab ( 'read_surf,) but I could't open the file in Freesurfer with tksurfer.... 
> > 
> > VP
> > 
> > _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> __
> > From: pvaltti@hotmail.com
> > To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> > Subject: Brainsuite --> FreeSurfer
> > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:34:39 -0400
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I've done a segmentation with Brainsuite ( and FreeSurfer) and I would like to get measurements with FreeSurfer. SO, I
> > convert my rile ( readdfs --> write_surf ) from BRainsuite in Matlab to be usable with Freesurfer. Then, I tried to get
> > measurements with the command .'mris_anatomical_stats' .  with the file created previously in Matlab (I called it
> >  'rh.pial'). But I got this error like the system is not able to read wm.mgz.
> > That's why I thought I could juste replace th 'rh.pial' of the segmentation with Freesurfey by the 'rh.pial' created wi
> th
> > Matalb and then run mris_anatomical_Stats. IS this a good approximation. Could you recommand another way.
> > 
> > 
> > VP
> > 
> >
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