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Dear Denis, you might want to try SPM5 and the corresponding volumes toolbox for that - the toolbox is available from the SPM extensions page. SPM5 brings some batch facilities and the volumes toolbox for SPM5 might help you to some extent defining your masks. On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Denis Brown wrote: > Dear SPM gurus! > > My group processes structural MRIs from an elderly subject population and > hence face the problems of atrophied brain images, etat crible, and so on. > We find a need to create our own templates for subpopulations and generally I > think do more processing than folks working with "normal" populations. A > desire to use batch processing, once the images have been stripped, AC-PC > aligned, etc is quite high on the agenda. > > I note some discussions especially from September last year on this list > (Yanjun, Neggers, et al), where batch processing was often mentioned in the > context of fMRI. In a nutshell, what is the status of SPM's batch > capabilities as relates to structural work for normalisation, segmentation and > the production of templates? > > It would be wonderful, for example, to be simply able to edit a list of > filenames to include or exclude subjects newly enroled to or deleted from a > study, or to create fresh file lists to automate the process of creating > different subpopulations within our overall cohort (eg. clinical symptoms vs > symptom-free.) The current pointy-clicky GUI interface manual method is > error prone at best. Using imcalc's parameter setup (i1+i2+i3+...+iN)/N can > also be error prone and rather tiresome to input for large N. > > Kind regards, > Denis > (Sorry for a possibly "dumb" question.) > > > -- Volkmar Glauche - Department of Neurology [log in to unmask] Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg Phone 49(0)761-270-5331 Breisacher Str. 64 Fax 49(0)761-270-5416 79106 Freiburg