[MINC-users] Mincextract to get voxel values and coordinates?

[Najmeh Khalili M.]

I just want to throw in my two cents in defense of mincbet:
what I like about it is that it is somewhat more generous (especially in
frontal areas) than the method on WIKI. Also, it allows you to strip the
skull prior to classification, which in my experience, improves the
classification. I should add, that I have never quantified my former
statement about bet's frontal generosity; I have just come to this
conclusion by eyeballing many many images. :)

Najma

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Jason Lerch wrote:

>
> On Nov 16, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Dylan WAGNER wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >       Also thank you for the location of mincbet. So now I'm confronted
> > with three choices. Mincbet, skullstrip and the preprocessing method on
> > on the wiki page for VBM. It's a bloody buffet of skullstripping
> > methods!
> > Any reason why one would be better? The method on the VBM seems more
> > tailored to each individual subject, though longer to carry out.
>
> The basic answer: they all suck. I think that the method on the VBM
> pages sucks least of the lot, but I know that others disagree. There
> has never been a study which compared all these methods, though this
> paper here might help (it does not compare our cortical_surface method
> that is described in the VBM pages):
>
> Boesen K, Rehm K, Schaper K, Stoltzner S, Woods R, Luders E, Rottenberg
> D.
> Quantitative comparison of four brain extraction algorithms.
> Neuroimage. 2004 Jul;22(3):1255-61.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
> >              Best,
> >                    DDW
> >
>
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