Hi Grant
That's pretty surprising. If you tar and gzip that whole subject's dir I will 
take a look

Cheers
Bruce

> On Apr 12, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Grant O'Brien <grant.o.br...@duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I’m an undergraduate at Duke University working on a study of pediatric 
> structural imaging. We’ve recently come across some segmentation issues with 
> the left thalamus (and very rarely the right thalamus) on many of our scans. 
> Although our study isn’t looking at the thalamus as a region of interest, 
> we’re concerned that it could be indicative of more global segmentation 
> issues. 
> 
> Freesurfer appears to be incorrectly labeling segments of the left thalamus 
> as “left cerebral white matter." We initially thought that perhaps the errors 
> were due to motion artifacts, but we have observed this phenomenon in some 
> scans with striping and some scans without striping (as demonstrated in the 
> two screenshots). 
> 
> My questions are: 
> What could be the possible reasons for this incorrect segmentation? 
> Would scans with this problem need to be excluded? 
> What steps could we take to fix it? 
> Why might it only be occurring in the left thalamus? 
> 
> Thanks so much for your help. 
> 
> Best,
> Grant O'Brien
> Duke University Class of 2017
> 704-467-5449
> 
> <thalamus issues + striping.png><thalamus issues no striping.png>
> 
> 
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