Surfing is a Matlab / Octave toolbox for surface-based voxel neighborhood selection on the cerebral cortex, intended for informationg mapping of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.
- voxel selection based on cortical surface reconstruction.
- support for Euclidian, Dijkstra and geodesic distance metrics.
- selection of voxels across the brain based on either a fixed radius or a fixed number of voxels.
- support for twin surfaces (FreeSurfer; pial and white) and single surfaces (Caret and BrainVoyager).
- no GUI: commands are entered in the Matlab command window, or in a matlab script.
- no full processing pipeline: preprocessing, surface reconstruction, classification, statistical analyses, and visualization are not part of the toolbox. Many other programs can be used for this, for example FSL, AFNI, SPM for preprocessing and regression; Freesurfer and Caret for surface reconstruction; several online toolboxes for classification and statistical analyses; and AFNI, Freesurfer and Caret for visualization.
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A working installation of Matlab or Octave
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Using a geodesic distance metric (for measuring distances on the surface), a working mex compiler environment may be required. An alternative metric (that gives similar results but does not require mex) is the dijkstra metric.
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externals have only been tested on Matlab:
- GIFTI surfaces require the GIFTI matlab toolbox: http://www.artefact.tk/software/matlab/gifti
- BrainVoyager surfaces require Neuroelf: neuroelf.net
- AFNI NIML I/O requires the AFNI matlab toolbox: http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/matlab/ [work in progress to make this toolbox Octave-compatible]
- Nikolaas N. Oosterhof [NNO], nikolaas.oosterhof at unitn.it
- Tobias Wiestler [TW], tobias.wiestler at googlemail.com
- Joern Diedrichsen [JD], j.diedrichsen at ucl.ac.uk
- add the "surfing", "misc" and "toolbox_fast_marching" directories (and their subdirectories) to the Matlab / Octave path.
- run "compile_mex" in the "surfing" root directory.
- view the surfing_voxelselection.m function, or consider the examples in the "examples" directory.
The "surfing" toolbox is copyright (c) 2009-2014 Nikolaas N. Oosterhof, Tobias Wiestler, Joern Diedrichsen. All rights reserved. The toolbox "fast marching" (in the toolbox_fast_marching directory) is copyright 2009, Gabriel Peyre. All rights reserved.
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If you use this toolbox for a scientific publication, please cite: Oosterhof, N.N., Wiestler, T, Downing, P.E., & Diedrichsen, J. (in press). A comparison of volume- based and surface-based information mapping. Neuroimage. Available online http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.270
If you use geodesic distances, please also cite: Gabriel Peyre (2008), Toolbox Fast Marching. https://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~peyre/matlab/fast-marching/content.html