Hello FreeSurfer Developers,
I ran longitudinal samseg on a group of subjects with MS (each with 5 MRI timepoints over 2 years) and found that the average volume of the pallidum increased over time, while other subcortical volumes (caudate, putamen, thalamus) decreased. I also tried longitudinal samseg using the --pallidum-separate flag and had similar results. As the putamen gets smaller it looks like the pallidum volume grows to fill in the space. Have you encountered this issue before?
I am using enhanced T1 images (made from T1, FLAIR, and FA data) as the input for run_samseg_long (FreeSurfer v7).
Thank you, Andrew
Andrew Russo Clinical Research Coordinator Multiple Sclerosis Imaging Lab Massachusetts General Hospital 149 13th Street | Boston, MA 02129 617-726-7531