Re: [Freesurfer] [FREESURFER] atlas applicability. (fwd)

2012-03-29 Thread Lilla Zollei


Hi Cheol,

I am using freesurfer for patients with various neural disease. I wonder the 
the

freesurfer atlas is applicable to them: dementia (with Lewy bodies, DLB),
epilepsy, schizophrenia, ADHD, Alzheimer, stroke. (I know some studies 
already

used freesurfer for some of the diseases in the list,) I believe epilepsy
patients with lobectomy cannot be applicable.  


If the malformation or the difference between normal control acquisitions 
and your scans is significant the FS pipeline, using the FS atlas is not 
going to be successful. Withuot seeing your data I cannot tell which 
population from the above is going to be affected, but if in doubt just 
try processing one or two representative samples from the different 
populations and assess how successful the processing is.


Also is there age limit for the freesurfer atlas? How young can the atlas 
work

for? 4 year-old? 6 year-old? or more than 10 year-old? How about the upper
bound? 80 year-old? 


The lower bound, in our experience, is about 4-5 yrs. Of course, it 
depends on your data quality but we had success all the way down to that 
age. I am not aware of any upper limits. Again, if you are processing 
these kind of extreme populations, make sure that you inspect the 
outcome of the FS recon pipeline carefully before proceeding with any 
type of analysis.


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Re: [Freesurfer] [FREESURFER] atlas applicability. (fwd)

2012-03-29 Thread Cheol Han
Dear Lilla

I appreciate your answers. It was very helpful. Just another follow-up
question. I think freesurfer itself ended without errors and the
skull-stripped and surfaces look okay. I think in the recommended
reconstruction Pipeline, check segmentation is related to checking atlas
worked. Still, I wonder there is a gold standard to check the atlas
(Deksian atlas) works okay. .

Thanks again!

Best
Cheol


Cheol Han, Ph.D
Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Seoul National University
Korea


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Lilla Zollei
lzol...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote:


 Hi Cheol,


  I am using freesurfer for patients with various neural disease. I wonder
 the the
 freesurfer atlas is applicable to them: dementia (with Lewy bodies, DLB),
 epilepsy, schizophrenia, ADHD, Alzheimer, stroke. (I know some studies
 already
 used freesurfer for some of the diseases in the list,) I believe epilepsy
 patients with lobectomy cannot be applicable.


 If the malformation or the difference between normal control acquisitions
 and your scans is significant the FS pipeline, using the FS atlas is not
 going to be successful. Withuot seeing your data I cannot tell which
 population from the above is going to be affected, but if in doubt just try
 processing one or two representative samples from the different populations
 and assess how successful the processing is.


  Also is there age limit for the freesurfer atlas? How young can the atlas
 work
 for? 4 year-old? 6 year-old? or more than 10 year-old? How about the upper
 bound? 80 year-old?


 The lower bound, in our experience, is about 4-5 yrs. Of course, it
 depends on your data quality but we had success all the way down to that
 age. I am not aware of any upper limits. Again, if you are processing these
 kind of extreme populations, make sure that you inspect the outcome of
 the FS recon pipeline carefully before proceeding with any type of analysis.

 Lilla


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Re: [Freesurfer] [FREESURFER] atlas applicability. (fwd)

2012-03-29 Thread Lilla Zollei


Hi Cheol,

I am a bit confused by your question. The atlases that we use help with 
the segmentation on the surface reconstruction steps when we process a new 
volume. If the outcomes look resonable to you, then all is good. Did I 
answer your question?


Lilla

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Cheol Han wrote:


Dear Lilla 
I appreciate your answers. It was very helpful. Just another follow-up question. I think 
freesurfer itself ended without errors and the skull-stripped and surfaces look okay. I 
think in the recommended reconstruction Pipeline, check segmentation is 
related to
checking atlas worked. Still, I wonder there is a gold standard to check the 
atlas (Deksian atlas) works okay. .

Thanks again!

Best
Cheol


Cheol Han, Ph.D
Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Seoul National University
Korea


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Lilla Zollei lzol...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu 
wrote:

  Hi Cheol,

I am using freesurfer for patients with various neural disease. I 
wonder the the
freesurfer atlas is applicable to them: dementia (with Lewy bodies, 
DLB),
epilepsy, schizophrenia, ADHD, Alzheimer, stroke. (I know some 
studies already
used freesurfer for some of the diseases in the list,) I believe 
epilepsy
patients with lobectomy cannot be applicable.  


If the malformation or the difference between normal control acquisitions and 
your scans is significant the FS pipeline, using the FS atlas is not going to 
be successful. Withuot seeing your data I cannot tell which population from the 
above is going to be
affected, but if in doubt just try processing one or two representative samples 
from the different populations and assess how successful the processing is.

  Also is there age limit for the freesurfer atlas? How young can the atlas 
work
  for? 4 year-old? 6 year-old? or more than 10 year-old? How about the upper
  bound? 80 year-old? 


The lower bound, in our experience, is about 4-5 yrs. Of course, it depends on your data 
quality but we had success all the way down to that age. I am not aware of any upper 
limits. Again, if you are processing these kind of extreme populations, make 
sure
that you inspect the outcome of the FS recon pipeline carefully before 
proceeding with any type of analysis.

Lilla


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Re: [Freesurfer] [FREESURFER] atlas applicability. (fwd)

2012-03-29 Thread Cheol Han
Dear Lilla

Yes, It is clear now!

Best
Cheol



Cheol Han, Ph.D
Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Seoul National University
Korea


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Lilla Zollei
lzol...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote:


 Hi Cheol,

 I am a bit confused by your question. The atlases that we use help with
 the segmentation on the surface rec



 onstruction steps when we process a new volume. If the outcomes look
 resonable to you, then all is good. Did I answer your question?

 Lilla


 On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Cheol Han wrote:

  Dear Lilla
 I appreciate your answers. It was very helpful. Just another follow-up
 question. I think freesurfer itself ended without errors and the
 skull-stripped and surfaces look okay. I think in the recommended
 reconstruction Pipeline, check segmentation is related to
 checking atlas worked. Still, I wonder there is a gold standard to check
 the atlas (Deksian atlas) works okay. .

 Thanks again!

 Best
 Cheol


 Cheol Han, Ph.D
 Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics
 Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
 Seoul National University
 Korea


 On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Lilla Zollei 
 lzol...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

  Hi Cheol,

I am using freesurfer for patients with various neural
 disease. I wonder the the
freesurfer atlas is applicable to them: dementia (with Lewy
 bodies, DLB),
epilepsy, schizophrenia, ADHD, Alzheimer, stroke. (I know some
 studies already
used freesurfer for some of the diseases in the list,) I
 believe epilepsy
patients with lobectomy cannot be applicable.


 If the malformation or the difference between normal control acquisitions
 and your scans is significant the FS pipeline, using the FS atlas is not
 going to be successful. Withuot seeing your data I cannot tell which
 population from the above is going to be
 affected, but if in doubt just try processing one or two representative
 samples from the different populations and assess how successful the
 processing is.

  Also is there age limit for the freesurfer atlas? How young can the
 atlas work
  for? 4 year-old? 6 year-old? or more than 10 year-old? How about the
 upper
  bound? 80 year-old?


 The lower bound, in our experience, is about 4-5 yrs. Of course, it
 depends on your data quality but we had success all the way down to that
 age. I am not aware of any upper limits. Again, if you are processing these
 kind of extreme populations, make sure
 that you inspect the outcome of the FS recon pipeline carefully before
 proceeding with any type of analysis.

 Lilla


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