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Our approach is to locally compute the cortical thickness and establish local cortical correspondence in order to compare our populations.
 
Our approach is to locally compute the cortical thickness and establish local cortical correspondence in order to compare our populations.
  
Our plan for the project week is to learn how to use FreeSurfer in a pediatric age group, and run it on several cases.  
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Our plan is to learn how to use FreeSurfer in a pediatric age group, and run it on several cases.  
 
We would also like to use our itkEMS Tissue Segmentation tool to incorporate its results in the FreeSurfer pipeline.
 
We would also like to use our itkEMS Tissue Segmentation tool to incorporate its results in the FreeSurfer pipeline.
A study comparison between our CortThick tool and Freesurfer needs to be done to compare methods' reliabilities.
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Moreover a study comparison between our CortThick tool and Freesurfer needs to be done to compare methods' reliabilities.
  
 
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<h1>Progress</h1>
 
<h1>Progress</h1>
  
* Hans Johnson and Jeremy Bockholt worked with Clement to convert gipl t1 images into NIFTI for 4 cases.  We used the ITK package  '''ConvertBetweenFileFormats''' built into BRAINS2.
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* Jeremy Bockholt helped Clement with how to set up freesurfer autorecon processes.
* Jeremy helped Clement convert NIFTI into the standard MGH format using mri_convert
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* Several pediatric cases are running on the UNC system using FreeSurfer
* Jeremy helped Clement with how to set up autorecon processes
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* Clement with work with Jeremy to review the results of recon1 and recon2 on several cases before the end of the week
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 15:38, 4 December 2007

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Key Investigators

  • UNC: Heather Cody Hazlett, Martin Styner, Clement Vachet
  • MGH: Lilla Zollei

Objective

Our goal is to begin a longitudinal study of early brain development by cortical thickness in autistic children and controls (2 years with follow-up at 4 years). We want to be able to make statistical group comparisons.


Approach, Plan

Our approach is to locally compute the cortical thickness and establish local cortical correspondence in order to compare our populations.

Our plan is to learn how to use FreeSurfer in a pediatric age group, and run it on several cases. We would also like to use our itkEMS Tissue Segmentation tool to incorporate its results in the FreeSurfer pipeline. Moreover a study comparison between our CortThick tool and Freesurfer needs to be done to compare methods' reliabilities.

Progress

  • Jeremy Bockholt helped Clement with how to set up freesurfer autorecon processes.
  • Several pediatric cases are running on the UNC system using FreeSurfer




References

Additional Information