Hi yeah that should be fine.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:25 PM, André Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Many thanks, it works well. Is it fine to use fslmaths -dilM for the dilation of the original SLF mask?
>
> BW andre
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2014 14:49
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> Betreff: Re: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] Calculating the skeleton white matter mean FA
>
> You can do something like : fslmaths <tbss_skeleton> -mas
> <original_slf_mask> -bin tbss_skeleton_slf_only_mask
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:28 PM, André Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Ok, that's probably the reason why the values are so low. Sorry for asking again, but how can I create a mask of the TBSS skeleton with the SLF mask?
>>
>> BW
>> andre
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>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2014 13:32
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>> Betreff: Re: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] Calculating the skeleton white matter mean FA
>>
>> One potential issue there is that fslmeants gives you the mean of ALL
>> voxels in the mask (including voxels with a value of zero). So in case
>> you haven't already done that, you will need to first create a mask of
>> the TBSS skeleton with the SLF atlas, and then provide that result as
>> the option to -m (and as Steve said earlier, you may perhaps want to
>> dilate the tract mask beforehand.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:12 PM, André Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Great, thank you, this works well. In order to extract individual's FA value in the SLF, I am correct doing the following:
>>>
>>> e.g. for the temporal part of the SLF: fslmeants -i all_FA_skeletonised -m SLFtemporalpartR
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>> BW
>>> Andre
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>>> Von: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [[log in to unmask]]" im Auftrag von "Niels Bergsland [[log in to unmask]]
>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2014 12:23
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>>> Betreff: Re: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] Calculating the skeleton white matter mean FA
>>>
>>> Hi - the easiest point and click way to do it is via fslview by
>>> enabling the atlas tools, clicking the Structures button, and then
>>> changing to the JHU atlas, selecting your structure of interest,
>>> enabling "Preview selected structures' probability map" and then
>>> saving it from fslview. You can also do this all from the command line
>>> with the appropriate commands, but if you are unsure about that, the
>>> safest thing is just from within fslview as I described.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:08 PM, André Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you. I see all the files in the JHU folder and that the SLF is indexed with 14, 15, 18 and 19 (as described in the JHU-tract.xml file). But I don't know how I can extract a mask from these files (which one exactly) which only contains the SLF - can you please tell me how to do this?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>>>> Andre
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>>>> Von: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [[log in to unmask]]" im Auftrag von "Niels Bergsland [[log in to unmask]]
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2014 10:08
>>>> An: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Betreff: Re: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] Calculating the skeleton white matter mean FA
>>>>
>>>> Take a look at the JHU WM Tractography atlas. Both of those are in there.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:53 AM, André Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you. Is there a good mask for the SLF (and corticospinal) available in
>>>>> fsl/data/atlases, or do I need to create one by myself?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again.
>>>>> BW
>>>>> Andre
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>>>>> Von: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [[log in to unmask]]" im Auftrag von
>>>>> "Stephen Smith [[log in to unmask]]
>>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2014 09:24
>>>>> An: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Betreff: Re: [FSL] AW: [FSL] Calculating the skeleton white matter mean FA
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi - sure you can always use tract-specific masks by intersecting (eg) atlas
>>>>> tract masks (potentially dilated) with the mean FA skeleton mask.
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18 Nov 2014, at 08:21, André Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Steve,
>>>>>
>>>>> I had the same question in mind, thanks for the hint. I guess this will
>>>>> provide each subject's "global" FA value - is there even a way to get these
>>>>> values depending on the specific WM tracts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>> André
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>>>>> Von: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [[log in to unmask]]" im Auftrag von
>>>>> "Stephen Smith [[log in to unmask]]
>>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2014 09:14
>>>>> An: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Betreff: Re: [FSL] Calculating the skeleton white matter mean FA
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi - it's simpler than this - just run a full default TBSS fed from all
>>>>> subjects in one analysis - and then take all_FA_skeletonised and summarise
>>>>> that per subject:
>>>>>
>>>>> fslmeants -i all_FA_skeletonised -m mean_FA_skeleton_mask
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18 Nov 2014, at 02:26, M. alshikho <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Mark,
>>>>> I Have a suspicion that my question is not posted before so I am posting it
>>>>> again!
>>>>>
>>>>> I have two groups of subjects. I ran the TBSS analysis and I got the results
>>>>> after running the randomise command line.
>>>>> Now if I want to calculate the mean FA on the subject's skeleton (for every
>>>>> subject). Is it valid to generate a skeleton for the white matter for every
>>>>> subject by running the TBSS scripts (1---> 4) for the subjects one by one
>>>>> i.e running the TBSS scripts on one subject every time ? then by running the
>>>>> following command line (fslstats -t all_FA -k mean_FA_skeleton_mask -M) I
>>>>> can calculate the mean FA on the skeleton for every subject?
>>>>>
>>>>> I highly appreciate your opinion and any other ideas!
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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