Hi Kie Woo
can you run mris_euler_number on those surfaces to see if they are topologically correct?
cheers Bruce
On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Nam, Kie Woo wrote:
Dear experts,
I’m trying to calculate local gyrifcation index using CIVET’s surface file (‘.obj’).
First, I’ve successfully done ‘CIVET --> FreeSurfer’ conversion and created a ‘.pial’ file - below are the commands that worked for ‘CIVET --> FreeSurfer’ and ‘FreeSurfer --> CIVET’ conversions.
CIVET (MNI obj) --> FreeSurfer (ASCII) --> FreeSurfer (BINARY_BE (Big Endian)): “ConvertSurface -i_mni CIVET_2.0_icbm_avg_mid_sym_mc_left.obj -o_fs lh.pial; mris_convert lh.pial.asc lh.pial”
FreeSurfer (BINARY_BE (Big Endian)) --> CIVET (MNI obj): “ConvertSurface -i_fs lh.pial -o_mni lh.pial”
Then, I ran “recon-all -s Subject -localGI”, but it keeps crashing with the following message.
lGI for vertex number 5501 of the outer mesh is 4.1122
lGI for vertex number 5601 of the outer mesh is 0.86156
lGI for vertex number 5701 of the outer mesh is 3.8343
... remeasuring lGI value for vertex iV = 5801. It may take a few minutes.
WARNING -- Problem for vertex iV = 5801, lGI value is aberrantly high (lGI=62.3205)...
...lGI computation will be stopped. This may be caused by topological defects, check mris_euler_number on the pial surface.
The link below suggests rerunning “recon-all -autorecon2-wm -randomness”, but it’s not an option for me because I have no other FreeSurfer compatible files except “.pial”.
http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg18228.html
So, could there be any solution for this?
Best wishes,
Kie Woo