Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-23 Thread Bruce Fischl
yes, that was our goal some time ago and we thought we had succeeded in tracking down and fixing any randomness if the same seed is specified Bruce On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Harms, Michael wrote: > > Actually, if you run 'recon-all' a second time (from scratch) on the same > subject, on the same pl

Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-23 Thread Harms, Michael
Actually, if you run 'recon-all' a second time (from scratch) on the same subject, on the same platform/architecture, and you use the default recon-all settings (i.e., don't use the -randomness flag, or specify your random seed via the -rng-seed flag), then you should get identical results, becaus

Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-23 Thread Chiu, Bryan (PHTH)
There of course is some variability in the analysis due to the way the segmentation happens. Your results are certainly not out of the ordinary for the volume you are viewing. On average you can expect a ~1% variance between several scans of the same subject. If you want to know more I certainl

Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-23 Thread Nick Schmansky, MGH
Wang, what command-line flags were included? can you send me the recon-all.log file for these runs? The results should be the same with repeated runs if the default flags were used. Nick On Jun 21, 2014, at 10:20 PM, wangkangcheng_gmail wrote: > Dear Bruce > > Yes. The following is an

Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-21 Thread wangkangcheng_gmail
Dear Bruce Yes. The following is an example result for the subject (The id from Sub_1 to Sub_10 is the same subject) that I calculate ten times. rh.aparc.a2009s.volume rh_G_and_S_frontomargin_volume Sub_1 1713 Sub_2 1950 Sub_3 1789 Sub_4 1783 Sub_5 1879 Sub_6 1778 Sub_7 1892

Re: [Freesurfer] Why the result was not same for the same subject

2014-06-21 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Wang what do you mean "the number of each index"? And do you mean you analyzed the exact same data 10 times on the exact same hardware? cheers Bruce On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, wangkangcheng_gmail wrote: > Dear experts > > I used freesurfer (Version 5.3) to calculate one subject for ten times and