I've found it varies. A couple of brains that didn't go through with the FS brain extraction tool went through with BET. Maybe recon-all could include an option to try BET? Obviously have the most reliable tool as default but allow the user to easily test an alternative tool before starting to dig deep into other things?
simon
On 14 Dec 2007, at 09:40, Martin Kavec wrote:
In my experience, the FreeSurfer's brain extraction works better than the BET. Although, now with an option of iterative BET in the latest FSL, the outcomes are much better than before. In cases where brain extraction failed in my analysis, I found that it was the bias field correction which didn't do the best job, though the images looked ok. In these cases, even playing with watershed parameters didn't provide statisfactory results. So I tried FLS's bias correction followed by the watershed, and this always helped.
Martin
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Bruce Fischl wrote:
Hi Simon,
yes, you would need to skip the watershed step (it is our skull stripping), or better yet, replace it with bet, since at some points we need the skull on e.g. to do TIV estimation. Do you find our skullstripping is failing? In our hands the current version is extremely robust - working on 99% of the brains we test.
cheers, Bruce
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Simon Rushton wrote:
I've been having problems with a few brains (errors during processing). I found advice on the web about running BET (the FSL brain extraction tool) prior to running recon-all http://lcni.uoregon.edu/mediawiki/index.php/SOFT:FSL_FreeSurfer I've tried this and that has helped. (Searching the mail archive I see that at least one other person on this list appears to be doing the same.) My question is, is this a sensible thing to do? I ask because looking at the output I see that at least one of the early processing stages appears to expect a non-stripped brain: mri_watershed -brain_atlas /Applications/freesurfer/average/ RB_all_withskull_2007-08-08.gca transforms/ talairach_with_skull.lta T1.mgz brainmask.auto.mgz Does this suggest that I either should not try the BET trick or that if I do that I should make some modifications to the recon- all scripts? simon _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
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