Dear Shane,

I would suggest to run:

recon-all -bigventricles -s subject -autorecon2 -autorecon3 (-T2pial or -FLAIRpial if you have 3D T2 or 3D FLAIR). This should help to correct aseg in case of such large ventricles.

Antonin Skoch


From: Shane Schofield <shane.schofield@yahoo.com>
To: Freesurfer Support List <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>, Antonin Skoch <ansk@ikem.cz>
Sent: 4/22/2017 11:30 PM
Subject: Filling in missing ventricles in WM

Hi Freesurfer Experts and Antonin,

About an earlier question on XL Defects

I have used your suggestions to check the orig.nofix surfaces and I think the skull and missing ventricle voxels are causing the problem. Picture pasted.

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I have  removed the WM voxels in the skull, filled in the ventricles by adding WM voxels (brush value = 255 ), and ran the command
recon-all -s subject -autorecon2-wm -autorecon3
Recon-all was completed successfully and the surfaces look good. However, the aseg volume in the lateral ventricles are still wrong.
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At the crosshair, the WM value is 255 and the ASEG value is 0. Should I be editing the aseg now? Or should I be doing something else to the wm.mgz?
Appreciate your tips!
Best Wishes,
Shane