Eugenio and Freesurfer team,

 

Many thanks for responding to these questions. My question relates to 
hippocampal volume overestimation. I believe that a European team recently 
evaluated the performance of hippocampus segmentation using different automated 
segmentation methods including Freesurfer on more than 400 scans from several 
previous studies, and found that Freesurfer and FSL-FIRST may include tissue 
that is not part of the hippocampus. Liedlgruger et al, “Variability Issues in 
Automated Hippocampal Segmentation”, 2017, also reported that Freesurfer 
overestimated volumes vs. other methods tested. I wondered if version 6.0 
addresses the overestimation issue?  It appeared that the FS 6.0 release web 
page figure (which showed the hippocampal portion of an MRI at left, the 5.3 
subfield segmentation in the middle, and the 6.0 subfield segmentation at 
right) showed that a portion of gray tissue superior to hippocampus was 
included in the 5.3 segmentation but not in the 6.0 version – was that an 
example of 5.3 overinclusion, addressed in 6.0?

 

Thank you again for your help and for the team’s continued advances.

 

Dawn

 

 

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