Hi Younghoon

what structure are you talking about? In general it doesn't make sense to
flatten volumetric structures. We flatten the cortex, which is a folded
2D sheet. What would you do with the interior of the volume?

cheers
Bruce
On Wed, 20 Jul
2016, Younghoon Kim wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a volumetric data (mgz file) of a segmented brain region. We want to detect
> the surface of this segmented brain volume (i.e. deep brain region) and flatten it
> into a 2D image with its original surface texture.
>
> We’ve noticed that Freesurfer supports an algorithm to flatten volumetric data. We
> wonder if this could be adapted to our data set. Can anyone offer some advice on
> how to apply FreeSurfer to this more generic task?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Younghoon Kim
>
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> Younghoon Kim,Dep. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
> OMICS Lab
> Wellman Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
> Bouma’s Lab
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> younghoon.h.kim@gmail.com
> aktivhoon@kaist.ac.kr
>
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