Mishkin,

Try appending .asc to your file (ie, lh.mystats.asc) and try again. freesurfer interprets .asc as an ascii file (otherwise it tries to read it as binary).

Nick

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:23 -0400, Mishkin Derakhshan wrote:

Hi, I have my own stats files that I would like to incorporate into the freesurfer stream, if possible. Ie. after running FreeSurfer, I create a ?h.mystats (containing something like image intensities for example), where the format of ?h.mystats is just an ascii file, where each line is the value at that vertex.

What I ultimately want to do, is to transform ?h.mystats into fsaverage space, that way I can compare ?h.mystats across subjects. I was hoping I could use the given sphere.reg which has already been calculated to do this.

I renamed ?h.mystats to ?h.thickness and tried the following which I think will work: mris_preproc --s mysubject --hemi lh --meas thickness --target fsaverage --out lh.thickness.fsaverage.mgh

But it complains that:

Reading curvature file /lab1/FreeSurfer/4.0.5/ms-mni/testing//tester/surf/lh.thickness MRISreadBinaryCurvature: incompatible vertex number in file /lab1/FreeSurfer/4.0.5/ms-mni/testing//tester/surf/lh.thickness

I checked and I have the same number of lines in my file as vertices on my object so my questions are:

1. Do I have to convert my ascii ?h.mystats to a curvature (binary)

file like ?h.thickness, and if so how does one do this? 2. Is this the right way to get what I ultimately want to do, or is there another method?

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