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Hi FreeSurfer experts,
I have a few questions regarding the infant freesurfer tool, which I'm
currently trying to get up and running on my neonatal data.
Question 1: I've run the command infant_recon_all --s SUBJ --age 0, but I
was wondering if there are specific additional flags that you would
recommend. The main thing we're wanting to look at right now is total
cortical gray and cerebral white matter volumes (L and R hemispheres
separate). Should I be including --gmwm2 and --force (or any others)?
Questions 2,3: After running that command (without the extra flags) I
couldn't find any aseg.stats. I was wondering if there's something I've
either done wrong, or should be including. Also, which of brainvol.stats,
lh.aparc.stats and rh.aparc.stats should I use for the most accurate
measure of cortical gray volume and cerebral white volume?
Question 4: I saw on this mailing list a thread about quality-checking/
manual editing of the outputs, and that this is currently not available for
the infant tool. Is that still the case, i.e. we can check the outputs
visually but not make corrections. If so, would we then just run the
infant_recon_all command and use those outputs as is?
Sorry for the load of questions. I've attached the infant_recon_all log
file in case that's needed.
Thanks very much,
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Fleur Warton
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Division of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town