Thank you Bruce, this works great.

This is just for the records:

$ mris_expand -thickness surf/lh.white 0.35 surf/lh.white_outer0.35GM
using distance as a % of thickness
expanding surface surf/lh.white by 35.0% of thickness and writing it to surf/lh.white_outer0.35GM
 
$ mris_expand surf/lh.white -1 surf/lh.white_inner1mmWM
expanding surface surf/lh.white by -1.0 mm and writing it to surf/lh.white_inner1mmWM

Thanks again!



2014-03-27 13:29 GMT+01:00 Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
Hi Markus

use mris_expand.

cheers
Bruce

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Markus Gschwind wrote:

Thank you, Doug!
One last question: 
- Using which command would one construct the "?h.white -1mm surface" and
the "?h.white+30%GM surface" for visualisation purposes as in Salat  Figure
1(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811910013261?via=ihu
b)?

Thank you!
Markus



2014-03-26 15:36 GMT+01:00 Douglas Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:

      On 3/26/14 8:24 AM, Markus Gschwind wrote:
      Dear Doug and Bruce,
I have three more questions concerning 'pctsurfcon'.

1) The inner sampling distance is set to 1mm by default, but the
outer sampling is done at a 30% of the cortical thickness. I saw
that I could easily change the parameters or modify the script,
but I wonder why this has been chosen like this. What was the
rationale?

A fixed distance of 1mm was used to help prevent the WM sample from
projecting so far back that it samples GM "behind" it. I can't
remember how I choose 30% (instead of 50%). I think David Salat used
slightly different parameters in his paper. 



2) I think it is possible to run glmfit on the ?h.w-g.pct.mgh
file in order to get some group stats, right?

Yes

3) Is it also possibe to run the xhemi on the w-g.pct.mgh file?

Yes
doug


Thank you so much!
Markus


2014-03-24 23:51 GMT+01:00 Markus Gschwind
<markus.gschwind@gmail.com>:
      Whow that is great!! Thank you so much Doug, I was
      not aware of this! That's what I needed it seems. 
      Thanks Bruce and Doug!
Markus


2014-03-24 23:21 GMT+01:00 Douglas N Greve
<greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:

      you might want to look at the pctsurfcon
      script to see if that gets you
      where you want to be

      On 03/24/2014 06:18 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
      > it really depends on the size of the
      abnormality. I would guess 2 is
      > too big, and you want something more like 1,
      and sampling not averaging
      > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, Markus Gschwind wrote:
      >
      >> Hi Bruce!
      >> Ok I see, great! Tank you!
      >>
      >> So to double check, this will be something
      like :
      >>
      >> mri_vol2surf \
      >>
      >>
      >>   --mov /mri/nu.mgz \
      >>   --ref /mri/nu.mgz \
      >>
      >>   --surf /surf/lh.white
      >>   --projdist mmdist -2 \ # for inside white
      >>
      >>
      >>   # --projdist mmdist 2 \ # for outside
      white
      >>   --interp trilinear \
      >>   --hemi lh \
      >>   --out lh.nu_inside_white.mgh
      >>
      >>
      >> I am not sure which one to use from those,
      as I want to compare stable
      >> values but distant from white.
      >>
      >>
      >>    --projfrac-avg min max del : average
      along normal
      >>    --projdist mmdist : distance projection
      along normal
      >>    --projdist-avg min max del : average
      along normal
      >>
      >> What would you recommend?
      >> Thank you again!
      >> Markus
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >> 2014-03-24 21:29 GMT+01:00 Bruce Fischl
      <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
      >>       Hi Markus
      >>
      >>       I wouldn't use brainmask as it has
      been normalized too
      >>       aggressivley. Maybe the nu.mgz. Look
      at the difference between
      >>       values just outside of it and just
      inside of it
      >>
      >>       cheers
      >>       Bruce
      >>
      >>
      >>       On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, Markus Gschwind
      wrote:
      >>
      >>             Dear Bruce,
      >>             Thanks for the rapid answer!
      >>
      >>             Do you mean that I take the
      voxel values of
      >>             brainmask.mgz at the place
      where
      >>             the ?h.white surface passes,
      right?
      >>
      >>             I thought that the ?l.white
      surface marks the limit
      >>             between GM and WM as a
      >>             result of a binary decision.
      >>             I would be interested in the
      local certainty of this
      >>             decision. I thought
      >>             this is represented by the
      slope between the values
      >>             around 70 and those
      >>             >100.
      >>
      >>             Thanks again,
      >>             Markus
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>             2014-03-24 19:26 GMT+01:00
      Bruce Fischl
      >>             <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
      >>                   Hi Markus
      >>
      >>                   I would think that
      looking at the gray/white
      >>             contrast across the
      >>                   ?h.white surface would be
      more informative
      >>
      >>                   cheers
      >>                   Bruce
      >>                   On Mon, 24 Mar 2014,
      Markus Gschwind wrote:
      >>
      >>                         Dear all,
      >>                         I would like to
      capture regions where
      >>             the gray
      >>                         matter/ white
      matter junction is blurred
      >>             in order to
      >>                         detect possible
      focal
      >>                         cortical
      dysplasias.
      >>
      >>                         As I understood the
      WM/GM segmentation
      >>             is done by
      >>                         the script
      mri_segment.
      >>
      >>                         Would it be
      possible detect those
      >>             regions where the
      >>                         gradient between GM
      and WM regions is
      >>             low?
      >>
      >>                         I imagined that
      running mri_segment
      >>             several times,
      >>                         with each time a
      different lower GM
      >>             threshold and
      >>                         higher WM
      threshold, and
      >>                         then calculating
      the diference between
      >>             the results,
      >>                         might give such
      information.
      >>
      >>                         I am very much
      interested in what you
      >>             think about
      >>                         this approach and
      how to do it
      >>             practically.
      >>
      >>                         For info here are
      the optional flags of
      >>             mri_segment:
      >>
      >>                         -slope <s>
      >>
      >>                         set the curvature
      slope (both n and p)
      >>
      >>                         -pslope <p>
      >>
      >>                         set the curvature
      pslope (default=1.0)
      >>
      >>                         -nslope <n>
      >>
      >>                         set the curvature
      nslope (default=1.0)
      >>
      >>                         -debug_voxel <x y
      z>
      >>
      >>                         set voxel for
      debugging
      >>
      >>                         -auto
      >>
      >>                         automatically
      detect class statistics
      >>             (default)
      >>
      >>                         -noauto
      >>
      >>                         don't automatically
      detect class
      >>             statistics
      >>
      >>                         -log
      >>
      >>                         log to
      ./segment.dat
      >>
      >>                         -keep
      >>
      >>                         keep wm edits.
      maintains all values of 0
      >>             and 255
      >>
      >>                         -ghi, -gray_hi <h>
      >>
      >>                         set the gray matter
      high limit
      >>             (default=100.000)
      >>
      >>                         -wlo, -wm_low <l>
      >>
      >>                         set the white
      matter low limit
      >>             (default=90.000)
      >>
      >>                         -whi, -wm_hi <h>
      >>
      >>                         set the white
      matter high limit
      >>             (default=125.000)
      >>
      >>                         -nseg <n>
      >>
      >>                         thicken the n
      largest thin strands
      >>             (default=20)
      >>
      >>                         -thicken
      >>
      >>                         toggle thickening
      step (default=ON)
      >>
      >>                         -fillbg
      >>
      >>                         toggle filling of
      the basal ganglia
      >>             (default=OFF)
      >>
      >>                         -fillv
      >>
      >>                         toggle filling of
      the ventricles
      >>             (default=OFF)
      >>
      >>                         -b <s>
      >>
      >>                         set blur sigma
      (default=0.25)
      >>
      >>                         -n <i>
      >>
      >>                         set # iterations of
      border
      >>             classification
      >>                         (default=1)
      >>
      >>                         -t <t>
      >>
      >>                         set limit to thin
      strands in mm
      >>             (default=4)
      >>
      >>                         -v
      >>
      >>                         verbose
      >>
      >>                         -p <p>
      >>
      >>                         set % threshold
      (default=0.80)
      >>
      >>                         -x <filename>
      >>
      >>                         extract options
      from filename
      >>
      >>                         -w <w>
      >>
      >>                         set wsize
      (default=11)
      >>
      >>                         -u
      >>
      >>                         usage
      >>
      >>
      >>
      >>                         Thank you very much
      for all comments!
      >>
      >>                         Markus
      >>
      >>
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