[MINC-users] Watershed treshold and amygdala volume

[Andrew Janke]

Hi Hendrikx,

I am not that familiar with the details of freesurfer. Freesurfer does
use some MINC components internally though.

perhaps your question would be better asked on one of the freesurfer
mailing lists?

   http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FreeSurferSupport



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On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 00:00, Hendrikx, A.A.E.M. (Anne)
<a.hendrikx at fcdonders.ru.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We, members from the Donders Institute Nijmegen (The Netherlands), are using FreeSurfer to calculate amygdala volumes on MRI's. After a couple of tests we are suprised about the following:
>
> We are wondering why the amygdala volume changes, after changing the watershed threshold. Besides, if we should nog change the ws-treshold, but manually remove remaining skull, the amygdala volume will not change.
>
> We don't understand this. Can anyone explane this to us? And besides, what consequences are there for the accuracy of the calculations?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anne Hendrikx
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