this wiki page has just been created to hold this info:

http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BrainVolume


On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 14:14 -0500, Doug Greve wrote:
> This is from mri_segstats --help
> 
> MEASURES OF BRAIN VOLUME
> 
> There will be four measures of brain volume in the output summary file:
>   (1) BrainSegNotVent - sum of the volume of the structures identified in
>       the aseg.mgz volume this will include cerebellum but not ventricles,
>       CSF and dura. Includes partial volume compensation with --pv.
>       This is probably the number you want to report.
>   (2) BrainMask - total volume of non-zero voxels in brainmask.mgz. This 
> will
>       include cerebellum, ventricles, and possibly dura. This is 
> probably not
>       what you want to report.
>   (3) BrainSeg - sum of the volume of the structures identified in the 
> aseg.mgz
>       volume. This will  include cerebellum and ventricles but should 
> exclude
>       dura. This does not include partial volume compensation, so
>       this number might be different than the sum of the segmentation 
> volumes.
>   (4) IntraCranialVol (ICV) - estimate of the intracranial volume based 
> on the
>       talairach transform. See surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/eTIV 
> for more
>       details. This is the same measure as Estimated Total Intracranial 
> Volume
>       (eTIV).
> 
> 
> Akram Bakkour wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I want to pull the measure of whole brain volume. In the aseg.stats 
> > there is a BrainMaskVol and a BrainSegVol. Which one do I want?
> > As I understand it, BrainMaskVol is the volume of the brainmask 
> > (including the ventricles) whereas BrainSegVol is the volume of brain 
> > matter and not including the ventricles, so I think this is the one I 
> > want, but I want to make sure and I couldn't find a straight answer on 
> > the wiki.
> > Thanks!
> > Akram.
> >
> 

_______________________________________________
Freesurfer mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer

Reply via email to