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Hello, I am a graduate student working on diffusion MRI processing. I have been using the Camino toolbox to calculate structural connectivity matrices and have run into an error. For some subjects, when I run the conmat function, I get a structural connectivity
matrix of all 0's with no error message. I wasn't able to find a fix in the help archives.
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Below is a link to a down-sampled version of the .trk tractography files, .Bfloat Camino tractography files, the registered atlases with labels, and the output connectivity matrices. The set of data that is processed successfully by conmat has the header 'Working',
while the set that fails has the header 'NotWorking'. The error is reproducible on my end with these down-sampled files.
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Link to files: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sg8u7ev2kg1chtn/AACEpfuv-gArroEa95VwTk6wa?dl=0">
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sg8u7ev2kg1chtn/AACEpfuv-gArroEa95VwTk6wa?dl=0</a>
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<div>Exact commands with camino 9cf8bef17561e88d730df3bc6a8bc111ed1d93aa :</div>
<div> conmat -inputfile WorkingStreamlines.Bfloat -targetfile WorkingRegisteredAtlas.nii.gz -outputroot Working_</div>
<div> conmat -inputfile NotWorkingStreamlines.Bfloat -targetfile NotWorkingRegisteredAtlas.nii.gz -outputroot NotWorking_
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<div>Previously completed conversion steps:</div>
<div> trackvis_to_camino -i WorkingStreamlines.trk -o WorkingStreamlines.Bfloat</div>
<div> trackvis_to_camino -i NotWorkingStreamlines.trk -o NotWorkingStreamlines.Bfloat</div>
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No error messages are generated.
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Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated! Thank you,
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-Cooper Mellema </div>
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