Hi Doug,

I am interested in coming back to rawavg space because we have the caudates
segmented manually and we would like to compare the volumes obtained
automatically with those obtained with a manual segmentation. In this
case, is it necessary to come back to rawavg space, istn't it?

Yolanda

2011/2/11 Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

> Hi Yolanda, that looks correct, though you might want to use mri_label2vol
> instead of mri_vol2vol. mri_label2vol will handle certain cases better (like
> when multiple conformed voxels land in a single rawavg voxel). But why do
> you need to go to rawavg space anyway? If you're going to just count voxels,
> it would be better to do it in the conformed space and not worry about what
> happens to the segmentation when you go do a lower res space.
>
> doug
>
> Yolanda Vives wrote:
>
>> Thank you Bruce!
>>  I would like to segment a set of caudates into head and body and then
>> obtain the real volume of these two parts. The procedure that I am applying
>> is the following:
>>  1.- Applying the standard recon-all process
>> 2.- Extracting the "conformed" voxel geometry caudate with the following
>> command:  ./mri_extract_label $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subj/mri/aseg.mgz 11
>> $PROJDIR/$subj.nii.gz
>> 3.- Segmenting the caudates into head and body
>> 4.- Transforming the head/body into the native sapece with the following
>> command:
>>  mri_vol2vol --mov Head_Left-Caudate.mgz --targ rawavg.mgz --regheader --o
>> Head_Left-Caudate-in-rawavg.mgz
>> 5.- Voxel counting
>>  Would it be correct?
>>  Thank you in advance,
>> Yolanda
>>
>>  2011/2/10 Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:
>> fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>
>>
>>
>>    Hi Yolanda,
>>
>>    the first command maps the aseg from the "conformed" voxel
>>    geometry back to the voxel geometry on the scanner, and the second
>>    extracts the caudate from that volume. If you want the caudate in
>>    the conformed space, just use aseg.mgz in the mri_extract_label
>>    command instead of aseg-in-rawavg.mgz
>>
>>    cheers
>>    Bruce
>>
>>
>>    On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Yolanda Vives wrote:
>>
>>        Dear freesurfer's,
>>
>>        I have run a conventional recon-all process and I am
>>        interested in isolating
>>        the caudate from my subjects. I have applied the following
>>        commands:
>>
>>        *./mri_label2vol --seg $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subj/mri/aseg.mgz --temp
>>        $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subj/mri/rawavg.mgz --o
>>        $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subj/mri/aseg-in-rawavg.mgz --regheader
>>        $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subj/mri/aseg.mgz
>>        *
>>        *./mri_extract_label $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subj/mri/aseg-in-rawavg.mgz 11
>>        $PROJDIR/$subj.nii.gz
>>        *
>>
>>        I had seen in the wiki that these commands should be used when
>>        we need the
>>        images in native space. ¿Does it mean that my caudates are
>>        "denormalized" or
>>        on the contrary, that the images have only been resliced to
>>        the original
>>        size? If it is the second case, how could I obtain the
>>        caudates from the
>>        original image?
>>
>>        Thank you for your help,
>>        Yolanda
>>
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