Dear FreeSurfer folks,
We recently had an error occur while processing two brains in recon2. We are using FreeSurfer version 4.0.1 for these subjects. The error message in both cases mentions that mri_fill could not find points where lh and rh wm were "nbrs" (I assume this is short for neighbors). Upon inspecting the aseg.mgz files for both brains, I found that, while there were one or two spots in each brain where lh and rh wm voxels did touch, it was much less than in other version 4.0.1 asegs that we have processed and inspected. In other words, there were plenty of places where the connection between the l and r wm was mediated by the corpus callosum label, but almost none where the wm were direct neighbors. Is there any way known for fixing this problem? Could it be related to the new corpus callosum label in the version 4 segmentation which was not present in earlier versions? Thanks in advance for any help anybody might be able to lend.
Here is the end of the error message:
#-------------------------------------------- #@# Fill Fri Dec 14 07:12:09 CST 2007 /disk/conte_raid1/freesurfer/Geller/02681/mri
mri_fill -a ../scripts/ponscc.cut.log -xform transforms/talairach.lta -segmentation aseg.mgz wm.mgz filled.mgz
logging cutting plane coordinates to ../scripts/ponscc.cut.log... INFO: Using transforms/talairach.lta and its offset for Talairach volume ... using segmentation aseg.mgz... reading input volume...done. searching for cutting planes...voxel to talairach voxel transform 1.033 -0.026 0.146 -14.846; 0.010 1.114 0.190 -60.985; -0.140 -0.203 0.988 38.624; 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000; voxel to talairach voxel transform 1.033 -0.026 0.146 -14.846; 0.010 1.114 0.190 -60.985; -0.140 -0.203 0.988 38.624; 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000; reading segmented volume aseg.mgz... mri_fill: could not find any points where lh and rh wm are nbrs Linux eureka 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Jan 5 17:13:01 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
recon-all exited with ERRORS at Fri Dec 14 07:12:31 CST 2007