I've found the article "Within-subject template estimation for unbiased longitudinal image analysis" by Reuter et al. It only examines a limited number of structures for the reproducibility of longitudinal Freesurfer. Are there any other paper that examines the cerebellum as well? Any suggestion from the authors of Freesurfer about accuracy of longitudinal Freesurfer for the cerebellum in healthy subjects?

Best,
Gabor

2016-12-06 11:44 GMT+01:00 Gabor Perlaki <petzinger.gabor@gmail.com>:
Dear all,

We've run longitudinal Freesurfer on 30 healthy subjects. We have two subgroups (n=15) and we found a significant longitudinal change in the left and right cerebellar cortex in one of our subgroups. However, this change is very small: mean=0.67% range: -1.61-2.3% for the right cerebellar cortex; mean=0.86% range: -1.64-3.7% for the left cerebellar cortex. Although statistics indicate significant cerebellar cortex increase, we are sceptical that Freesurfer's accuracy allows reliable detection of such small differences. Is there any article on how accurate the longitudinal Freesurfer for cerebellum segmentation or any suggestion on how to decide whether our results are reliable?

Best,
Gabor




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Gabor Perlaki
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Diagnostic Center of Pécs
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