Hi Jason I would say at least 15, but you can also just check to see when things start to asymptote. I think Christophe found there were diminishing returns after 12 or so, but things have changed somewhat since then, and of course it will depend on the variance on your population.
cheers Bruce On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Jason Tourville wrote: > We are planning to generate a surface template from edited reconstructions > of pediatric cortical surfaces (ages 3-11). Any thoughts on the minimum > number of subjects should be used to generate the template? > > Thanks, > Jason[cleardot.gif] > > > -- > Jason A. Tourville, Ph.D. > Research Assistant Professor > Department of Speech, Language, > and Hearing Sciences > Boston University > 677 Beacon St. > Boston, MA 02215 > Phone: (617)353-9484 > Fax: (617)353-7755 > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.