Dear Eugenio,
I have a couple of questions regarding the hippocampus subfields segmentation on the dev FS 6.0 which I hope you could help me with.
We are comparing the volumes of hippocampal subregions of patients and controls, and we would like to be as consistent as possible with the input so that the output reflects only the differences we expect to see.
The problem is that we have a large number of controls but not all of them have the same sequences (T1, T2 or FLAIR) as the patients. So our questions are:
If the T1s from some subjects have a 1x1x1 resolution and others have 0.8x0.8x0.8 isotropic resolution, do we have to create two groups of controls and patients for each sequence? In other words, does the resolution of the T1 affect the freesurfer segmentation in a way that we can't compare 1x1x1 with 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.8?
Also, we would like to use T2s or FLAIRs as additional inputs to improve the results. Which sequence is preferably recommended? In our case, most controls and patients have the same FLAIR sequence, so to keep it consistent we would probably use FLAIR if that's worth it.
Finally, we also have different T2s: some isotropic, some anisotropic and partial cooverage of the brain, and some anisotropic that are aligned to the hippocampus (resolution: 1x1x3, best resolution on coronal slices). Considering that they are just additional inputs, do they have to be consistent as well? In other words, should we *only* compare patients and controls that had the same T2 sequence as additional input and same T1 sequence as main input, or can we "mix and match" the additional inputs?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Renata