Hello Aylin,

You should be fine running 'recon-all -autorecon2-wm -autorecon3'

FreeSurfer will not overwrite or ignore the manual edits you have made, even if you begin processing before that volume is created (i.e. edits made to brainmask.mgz will be considered if you run -autorecon2, or the entire recon-all pipeline).

Best,
Jackson

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Hi Jackson,

 

Thank you for the reply!

 

I appreciate the explanation. It makes sense the wm.mgz edits need to be run before the brainmask.mgz edits through the recon-all pipeline. Just to clarify, would it be preferred to run:

 

“recon-all –s subject –autorecon2 –autorecon3” or “recon-all –s subject –autorecon2-wm –autorecon3”

 

when running both the wm.mgz edits and brainmask.mgz edits through the recon-all pipeline?

 

Both –autorecon2 and autorecon2-wm flags run the the wm steps first followed by the pial surface steps.  However, since the –autorecon2 flag starts at an earlier step in the pipeline (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/recon-all#Manual-InterventionWorkflowDirectives), would there be a chance it would ignore/erase any of the manual edits done?

 

Thank you in advance for the clarification!

Aylin

 

 

 

 

Aylin Dincer
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Greetings Aylin,

 

If you have made edits to both the brainmask.mgz and wm.mgz files, I would recommend running recon-all with the -autorecon2 and -autorecon3 flags.

 

Each step in the FreeSurfer recon-all process draws on files generated in previous steps. So, if you have made edits to the wm.mgz volume, you will need to re-run the portion of the recon-all pipeline to incoperate you wm.mgz edits before you run the edits you made to brainmask.mgz through recon-all. This is because the pial surface processing happens after the white matter segmentation.

 

Below is a link to the FreeSurfer wiki page about recon-all. The section "Manual Intervention Workflow Directives" gives a breakdown of the steps in the recon-all pipeline.

 

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Best,

Jackson

 


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Hello FreeSurfer Experts,

 

If I need to manually edit both the brainmask.mgz and the wm.mgz in a FreeSurfer, what are the recommended flags when rerunning recon-all with the edits (-all, -autorecon2, etc)? Or is it recommended to run an edited volume through recon-all one at a time (i.e. editing the brainmask.mgz first, running recon-all using autorecon2-pial flag, editing the wm.mgz afterwards, then running recon-all again with autorecon2-wm)?

 

Thank you for the help!

Aylin

 


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