Hi, Bruce
Filedrop worked great and fast! Thank you for the tip.
It follows the bath I run for each subject:
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfLeftHippo lh.surfHippo
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfLeftHippoHead lh.surfHippoHead
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfLeftHippoBody lh.surfHippoBody
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfLeftHippoTail lh.surfHippoTail
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfRightHippo rh.surfHippo
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfRightHippoHead rh.surfHippoHead
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfRightHippoBody rh.surfHippoBody
   mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfRightHippoTail rh.surfHippoTail

The only file with the problem I reported is surfLeftHippoBody (3rd line). If I could generate an annotation file from surfLeftHippoHead, surfLeftHippoBody and surfLeftHippoTail or the binary masks I used mri_tessellate to make these surfaces it would be a good alternative. Perhaps, even better because I would get a faster processing (smoothing 2 surfaces, surfLeftHippo and surfRightHippo, per subject instead of 8).
Thank you again.
Em Seg, 2013-10-07 às 20:47 -0400, Bruce Fischl escreveu:
sorry, I don't think it completed as unzip can't find the end of directory 
mark in the file. Try our filedrop instead:

https://gate.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/filedrop2/

cheers
Bruce


On 
Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Marcos Martins da 
Silva wrote:

> Hi, Bruce
> I proceeded as explained at
> http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FtpFileExchange .
> Using ftp method, it started at good rate but after I transferred about 3/4
> of the file the transfer rate decreased to some bytes (not Kbytes) per
> second. Tried using curl -T and it seemed to complete after about 50 min but
> I got this message on terminal:
> DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> <html><head>
> <title>405 Method Not Allowed</title>
> </head><body>
> <h1>Method Not Allowed</h1>
> <p>The requested method PUT is not allowed for the URL
> /transfer/incoming.</p>
> <hr>
> <address>Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Port
> 80</address>
> </body></html>
> 
> So I am not sure you received the file. You should find a suj46.zip
> corresponding to the complete folder from my subject 46. You will find the
> usual structure created by recon-all. At mri folder you will find all the
> usual volumes, the posterior* files generated by hippo-subfield processing
> and the files I created on my analysis. Please, could you check if you
> really received the file? If not, I will try again using plain ftp.
> Thank you again for your help.
> Marcos.
> Em Seg, 2013-10-07 às 09:21 -0400, Bruce Fischl escreveu:
> 
> hmmm, I guess you should upload the subject so that we can track it down
> On 
> Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Marcos Martins da Silva wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Bruce.
> > Thank you for your fast answer.
> > I used a script and It took less than 15 min to process all files from all
>  subjects, except
> > the 3 files (surfaces) mris_smooth seems to enter a loop. When I tried to 
> smooth
> > surfLeftHippobody I waited for more than 4 hours. Comparing to the total t
> ime I needed to
> > process all files I concluded something was wrong and esed control + C to 
> interrupt the
> > process. I tested on 2 machines (mine is running CentOS 6 and the second i
> s a Mac, both using
> > Freesurfer 5.3) and got the same result. Including they seem to stop at th
> e same point. Do you
> > think it could need more time to finnish processing?
> > Alternatively, as I can use mris_smooth to process the whole left hippocam
> pus (the problem
> > only appears when processing the body segment), I guess I could get a simi
> lar and perhaps
> > better result if I could make a label from each of the binary masks of the
>  3 segments (head,
> > body, tail), merge them in an annot file and finally load the whole surfac
> e and the annot file
> > so I get the 3 segments discriminated by color. I found on Freesurfer Wiki
>  how to merge the
> > labels into an annot file but not how to make the labels from the binary m
> asks.
> > Thank you for your attention.
> > 
> > 
> > 2013/10/4 Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> >       how long have you waited?
> >
> >       On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Marcos Martins da Silva wrote:
> > 
> >
> >             Hi, Freesurfers
> >             I am getting some interesting hippocampal surfaces with the fo
> llowing
> >             steps:
> >             1- recon-all -all -hippo-subfields
> >             2- mri-concat (only CA1, CA23, CA4DG and the tail complement v
> olumes)
> >             3- a custom OCTAVE script to segment the concatenated volume f
> rom step
> >             2
> >             into Head, Body and Tail
> >             4- mri_binarize Head, Body and Tail volumes from step 3
> >             5- mri_tessellate the binary masks from step 4
> >             6- mri_smooth the surfaces from step 5
> >
> >             Using freeview I got a screenshot showing both hippocampi segm
> ented
> >             (hipposurf3d.png is attached).
> >             This approach worked well for 16 subjects up to step 5. Step 6
>  was
> >             completed
> >             as well in 13 out 16 subjects.
> >
> >             The only problem was during left hippocampal body smoothing in
>  3
> >             subjects
> >             (all the other surfaces from all 16 subjects in were smoothed 
> with no
> >             problem). For these 3 surfaces, mris_smooth simply freezes, wi
> th no
> >             error
> >             message. I must press control + C to quit the program. During 
> the
> >             freezing I
> >             noticed high CPU use.
> >             It follows the exactly command I used and the screen output.
> >
> >             mris_smooth -nw -g 5 2 -a 1 -n 1 surfLeftHippoBody lh.surfHipp
> oBody
> >             using Gaussian curvature smoothing with norm 5.00 with 2 smoot
> h steps
> >             averaging curvature for 1 iterations
> >             smoothing for 1 iterations
> >             smoothing surface tessellation for 1 iterations...
> >             ------------------------------------------------------
> >             ------------------------------------------------------
> >             ------------------ pass 1 (num=2853) ------------------
> >             ------------------------------------------------------
> >             ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >             If I supress the gaussian parameters and run just something li
> ke:
> >             mris_smooth -nw -a 1 -n 1 surfLeftHippoBody lh.surfHippoBody
> >             or even
> >             mris_smooth -nw  surfLeftHippoBody lh.surfHippoBody
> >
> >             I got the smoothed surface with no errors but the final qualit
> y is not
> >             as
> >             good as when I use the gaussian parameters.
> >             I am attaching one of the problematic surface files so you can
>  check
> >             it
> >             (surfLeftHippobody). Intersting if I use a surface with all le
> ft
> >             hippocampus
> >             (including head, problematic body and tail and) smoothing comp
> letes
> >             without
> >             error
> >             Thank you very much for any help.
> >             Marcos
> > 
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