Bruce is correct (he usually is): I have some opinion on this.
Please see the attached poster from last year that plots total number of
hippocampal interneurons along the anterior-posterior axis of the human
hippocampus.
We have similar data for pyramidal cells and subsector volume.
The bottom line: CA 1 is the largest sector in the uncus, but about 40% of
the uncus is NOT CA1.
It seems to me that the neuroimaging community is waking up and realizing
that subfield anatomy of the hippocapmus varies quite a bit along the
anterior-posterior axis.
We have many whole human hippocampal specimens and have quite a bit of
data on the subfields.
We might have to publish this now ...
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On 11/17/11 12:46 PM, "Bruce Fischl"
fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
>Hi Joshua
>
>I'll cc Jean Augustinack and Stephan Heckers, who I know have opinions on
>this issue :)
>
>cheers
>Bruce
>
>On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>>
>> There is great variability between the different segmentation protocols
>>used
>> by different research groups, and I think people are eager for a
>>standard to
>> facilitate comparison and replication. By becoming part of Freesurfer, I
>> suspect that your segmentation algorithm will become that standard.
>>
>> Luckily, I think it is one of truest I've seen to conforming to the
>>Duvernoy
>> atlas. Whether Duvernoy's work is the appropriate standard I am not
>> qualified to say, but he does seem to be cited quite often as the basis
>>for
>> the various protocols in the wild. However, there might still be some
>> differences between Duvernoy and the scheme used by the Freesurfer
>>subfield
>> segmentation.
>>
>> Particularly, Duvernoy seems to indicate that in the head and the tail
>>CA1
>> seems to be the only subfield present in the anterior 1/3 of the head
>>and
>> posterior 1/3 of the tail. Looking coronally, subiculum seems to extend
>> further laterally in the head and tail than in the body of the
>>hippocampus.
>> Lastly, CA1 seems to continue further medially on the superior side of
>>the
>> hippocampus in the head and tail than in body. CA3, by my reading of
>> Duvernoy, seems to be tiny in the head and tail.
>>
>> All these are fairly minor points. Still, I wouldn't mind some comments
>>on
>> these observations, as they were changes I have been proposing to make
>>in
>> the segmentation protocol used in my lab.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Joshua
>>
>> Joshua Lee
>> Graduate Student
>> Center for Mind and Brain &
>> Department of Psychology
>> University of California, Davis
>> 530.747.3805
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Koen Van Leemput
>>
koen@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>> wrote:
>> Hi Joshua,
>>
>> I'm not a neuroanatomist so I can't really answer that question.
>> My
>> aim has just been to replicate what a human expert has given us
>> as
>> segmentation examples on a number of different subjects.
>>
>> I know that different labs follow very different conventions for
>> labeling the subfields manually. Perhaps someone else can chime
>> in?
>>
>> Koen
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Joshua Lee
jkilee@ucdavis.edu
>> wrote:
>>> At least by my reading of the Duvernoy Human Hippocampus atlas, the
>> most
>>> anterior and posterior extents of the hippocmapus (perhaps just a
>> slice at
>>> the tips in most scans) are almost entirely composed of the CA1
>> subfield.
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Joshua
>>> -
>>> Joshua Lee
>>> Graduate Student
>>> Center for Mind and Brain &
>>> Department of Psychology
>>> University of California, Davis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Alan Francis
>>
alandarkenergy@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Koen.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Koen Van Leemput
>>>>
koen@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The answer is close to what Shashwath suggested, except that the
>>>>> "Hippocampus" segmentation is really computed at the same time as
>> all
>>>>> the other subfields. For unfortunate reasons, the tail of the
>>>>> hippocampus that is not further subdivided in our manual training
>>>>> segmentations was called "Hippocampus" for lack of other good
>> names -
>>>>> it really should have been "Part of the Hippocampus Tail that We
>>>>> Didn't Subdivide Manually".
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want to compute the total volume of the hippocampus, you'll
>>>>> need to add the volume of this part, though..
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> Koen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Alan Francis
>>
alandarkenergy@gmail.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks Shashwath.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Shashwath
>>
shashwath123@gmail.com
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alan- I believe the label "hippocampus" here refers to the
>> remaining
>>>>>>> hippo
>>>>>>> segment after the algorithm has completed labelling of all
>> subfields.
>>>>>>> In
>>>>>>> essence this would not be a measure that conveys very
>> meaningful info.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Nov 16, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Alan Francis
>>
alandarkenergy@gmail.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Koen and FreeSurfers:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have a 3T dataset that has undergone processing using 5.1.
>> I have
>>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>>> run the Hippo sub fields command. Here are my results:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [root@NeuroImage-Gamma mri]#
>> kvlQuantifyPosteriorProbabilityImages
>>>>>>>> $FREESURFER_HOME/data/GEMS/compressionLookupTable.txt
>>>>>>>> posterior_right_*
>>>>>>>> posterior_Right-Hippocampus.mgz
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> volumeInVoxels:
>>>>>>>> right_CA1: 2473.34
>>>>>>>> right_CA2-3: 7530.08
>>>>>>>> right_CA4-DG: 4160.99
>>>>>>>> right_fimbria: 520.14
>>>>>>>> right_hippocampal_fissure: 376.772
>>>>>>>> right_presubiculum: 2780.65
>>>>>>>> right_subiculum: 4230.04
>>>>>>>> Right-Hippocampus: 2277.69
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My question is : Since these are "subfields" of the
>> Hippocampus,
>>>>>>>> should
>>>>>>>> not the sum of all subregions be equal the volume of the
>> Right
>>>>>>>> Hippocampus?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks so much!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Alan Francis
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, BOSTON
>>>>>>>>
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