Dear Freesurfer Experts,
 
thanks for helping me! I run the following comand line:
 
mri_surfcluster --in qdec/lh-Avg-thickness-XXX_TOTAL-Cor/sig.mgh --no-adjust --subject fsaverage --hemi lh --thmin 2 --minarea 100 --sum TestClusters
 
After a while, I got this answer:

thsign = abs, id = 0
version $Id: mri_surfcluster.c,v 1.48 2010/04/12 17:36:58 greve Exp $
hemi           = lh
srcid          = qdec/lh-Avg-thickness-XXX_TOTAL-Cor/sig.mgh
srcsubjid      = fsaverage
srcsurf        = white
srcframe       = 0
thsign         = abs
thmin          = 2
thmax          = -1
fdr            = -1
minarea        = 100
xfmfile        = talairach.xfm
nth         = -1
sumfile  = TestClusters
subjectsdir    = /Users/dhirjak/MRI/Freesurfer/XXX
FixMNI = 1
------------- XFM matrix (RAS2RAS) ---------------
/Users/dhirjak/MRI/Freesurfer/XXX/fsaverage/mri/transforms/talairach.xfm
 1.000   0.000   0.000   0.000;
 0.000   1.000   0.000   0.000;
 0.000   0.000   1.000   0.000;
 0.000   0.000   0.000   1.000;
----------------------------------------------------
Reading source surface /Users/dhirjak/MRI/Freesurfer/XXX/fsaverage/surf/lh.white
Done reading source surface
Computing metric properties
Loading source values
mghRead(qdec/lh-Avg-thickness-XXX_TOTAL-Cor/sig.mgh, -1): could not open file
ERROR: could not read qdec/lh-Avg-thickness-XXX_TOTAL-Cor/sig.mgh as type

However, as you can see, it is still not functionning. What am I doing wrong? How should I correct my command line? Which other commands do I have to use?
 
Thanks for your help!
 
Dusan

 
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:38:07 -0400
> From: greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> To: dusanhirjak@hotmail.com
> CC: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Cluster-Size in Qdec
>
> In this case, the input file would be the sig.mgh file that you want to
> extract clusters from. For this, you would not use a csd file (which is
> created by the simulation, unless you want to exclude clusters based on
> their p-values instead of size). You would set the --thmin to set the
> voxel-wise threshold. You would also set --minarea to exclude clusters
> smaller than a certain size.
> doug
>
> Dusan Hirjak wrote:
> > Dear Freesurfer experts,
> >
> > after a partial correlation (cortical thickness in different brain
> > regions of 24 Subjects correalted with socres on different
> > neuropsychological scales) I tried to define the minimal and maximal
> > cluster size in Qdec in order to show only the largest effects.
> > I run "mri_surfcluster" and other commands described on
> > http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mri_surfcluster. Unfortunately,
> > it did not work. Should I use all the command lines? What is exactly
> > meant by "inputfile" and "csd csdfile"? I guess my inputfile should be
> > the "table.dat" File and T1-weighted images of all 24 Subjects...?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Dusan
> >
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:34:02 -0500
> > > From: greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> > > To: dusanhirjak@hotmail.com
> > > CC: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Cluster-Size in Qdec
> > >
> > > I don't think tthere is a way in qdec to define either. You can run
> > > mri_surfcluster externally to remove clusters under a certain size.
> > With
> > > a few tricks you can remove the ones over a certain size too.
> > > doug
> > >
> > > Dusan Hirjak wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > I am a beginner in using Freesurfer. I did an explorative study
> > > > where I correlated cotical thickness with different
> > neuropsychological
> > > > parameters: I found positive correlations between cortical thickness
> > > > and higher scores on different neuropsychological scales in different
> > > > brain regions. However, some of these brain regions (clusters) with
> > > > cortical thinning are only covering a very small surface area (blue
> > > > color). I was now wondering if there is a possibility in Qdec to
> > > > manually define the minimal and maximal cluster size, which I want to
> > > > show?
> > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > > Dusan
> > > >
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