My experience with eTIV is that it's great with a perfect Talairach transform but otherwise is less accurate than other measures. Manually fixing the transforms and reprocessing as necessary will result in great eTIVs but requires quite a bit of manual work.
What we do instead is just use the brainmask volume (but our data are MRIs of non-demented older adults so there's not typically extensive atrophy). We've found that brainmask has a Dice Similarity Coefficient of 0.95 and an ICC of 0.92 with manually traced intracranial masks (inferior termination on a straight line between the lowest portion of the clivus and occipital bone). eTIV had an ICC of 0.67 with our manual masks (but we didn't fix the transformations). Jared ____ Jared Tanner, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Clinical and Health Psychology University of Florida > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu> > To: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> > Cc: > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:10:12 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] eTIV question > > Hi, > Why not use a measurement of brain size rather than “eTIV”? > > cheers, > -MH > > -- > Michael Harms, Ph.D. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders > Washington University School of Medicine > Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 > 660 South Euclid Ave.Tel: 314-747-6173 > St. Louis, MO 63110Email: mha...@wustl.edu > >
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