Hi Allison,
Thanks. It is still confusing: for the gm the aseg.stats lists cortical as well as subcortical and the total volumes (being the sum of both). But for wm only cortical volumes are present. Is there no subcortical wm volume present or defined?
Ed
On 27 Oct 2010, at 15:58, Allison Stevens wrote:
Ed, I would use the values in the aseg.stats. I'm not sure why there is this difference (Doug might be able to elaborate on how the values in aseg.stats are calculated) but for v5.0, we went over how all the stats were being calculated and make sure the values in the aseg.stats were the most accurate. Allison
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Ed Gronenschild wrote:
Dear Bruce/Allison,
Could you please try to give response to my question which wm and gm volumes I shoud use, see my today's submission below.
Ed
On 27 Oct 2010, at 14:41, freesurfer-request@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
Dear Christian,
Thanks for your suggestion. I followed the instructions to derive the GM and WM volumes. Here are the (rounded-off) results for one example:
mris_volume lh.pial: 532767 mris_volume rh.pial: 536127
mris_wm_volume lh: 251139 mris_wm_volume rh: 254730
Accordingly: gm lh = 532767 - 251139 = 281628 gm rh = 536127 - 254730 = 281397
Left + right: total = 1068894 wm = 505869 gm = 563025
The aseg.stats file lists the following results:
cortical wm lh: 251139 cortical wm rh: 254730 total wm: 505869
cortical gm lh: 263888 cortical gm rh: 265231 total cortical gm: 529119 subcortical gm: 181270 total gm: 710389
For wm both results are equal but for gm they are not.
So now my question still exists: which wm and gm volumes should I take?
Ed
On 26 Oct 2010, at 20:40, freesurfer-request@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
Dear Ed,
to my knowledge, "mris_wm_volume" is the best option to determine the white matter volume.
See this wiki page for usage: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MorphometryStats
Best wishes, Christian
Christian Scheel Department of Psychiatry University of Cologne
Am 26.10.2010 15:22, schrieb Ed Gronenschild:
Hi,
I post this once again because I didn't get any response.
In the v5.0.0 aseg.stats file I can find the following volumes:
left/right cortical gray mattersubcortical gray mattertotal cortical gray mattertotal gray matter volumeand
left/right cortical white mattertotal cortical white matterHow can I derive the total white matter volume?
Ed
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Nope - the subcortical structures are all gm. Allison
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