Overlaying nodal network characteristics onto freesurfer mappings (*.annot)

[rb643]

BrainNet (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/bnv/) has proven a useful tool to visualise brain networks, in their most recent version they have added in the option of loading freesurfer surface files (.pial) and freesurfer mappings (.annot) as well as nodal files created in Matlab (https://github.com/rb643/brains/blob/master/writeNodes.m). I'm looking for a way to write out mapping information from matlab into freesurfer format so I can combine them. The pysurfer code (https://github.com/KirstieJane/DESCRIBING_DATA) already provides a way to write these mapping to standard png's but it could be useful to have them in .annot format as well.

[cMadan]

This isn't quite what you asked for, but I've been reading in the FreeSurfer surfaces files into MATLAB (.pial and .annot, also works with inflated brains) and then rendering the brains within MATLAB. This has the added benefit of being able to easily set the viewing angle and save the render.

This is the code I have been using: http://maki.bme.ntu.edu.tw/?page_id=1378