[caret-users] Brain extraction

[Hamied Haroon]

Dear Jochen,

Thanks very much for your message.

I've just registered for and downloaded BrainSuite2. Please could you
share the parameters you used to extract the brain surface in F99UA1
using BSE? This sounds promising.

Many thanks.

Best wishes,
 
Hamied
 

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From: caret-users-bounces at brainvis.wustl.edu
[mailto:caret-users-bounces at brainvis.wustl.edu] On Behalf Of Jochen
Ditterich
Sent: 15 July 2008 18:52
To: Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users
Subject: Re: [caret-users] Brain extraction

Dear all,

I have been successful extracting the brain surface from the F99UA1 
volume (FullHead) using the automatic BSE algorithm implemented in 
BrainSuite2 (http://brainsuite.usc.edu/). Please let me know if you need

help with setting up the parameters.

Best,

Jochen.

Donna Dierker wrote:
> Hi Hamied,
> 
> If you mean generate output similar to FSL's BET, then I'd say, no -- 
> not automatically.
> 
> In the case of F99UA12, the AFNI volume 
> Macaque.F99UA1.BOTH.SEGMENT.clean+orig.HEAD in the September 2006 
> tutorial 
> (http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/archivelist.do?archive_id=6595030), 
> MACAQUE subdirectory, is in the ballpark.  It is a segmentation of
both 
> hemispheres, but it aims for the cortical midthickness, rather than
the 
> pial surface.  Also, the sulci are not filled in, the way a BET-style 
> mask would be.  Using utilities in Caret's Window: Caret Command
Script 
> Builder: VOLUME DILATE and ERODE you could fill in the sulci, and then

> zero out all voxels outside the resulting mask.
> 
> In the case of F6, I could find no segmentation volume, but this
dataset 
> contains both fiducial coord files:
> 
> Macaque.F6.BOTH.VincentEtAl_Nature07_Fig2.73730.spec
> http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/archivelist.do?archive_id=6621813
> 
> You could project these surfaces to volumes; fill the cavity; and get
a 
> segmentation not unlike the F99UA12 volume described above.  You'd
need 
> to similarly dilate and erode to fill the sulci.
> 
> The situation looks similar for M3:  Fiducial surfaces exist and could

> be back projected to volumes; dilated; eroded; and extra-mask voxels
set 
> to zero.
> 
> With the exception of F99UA12, these volumes are affine means of 
> multiple subjects.  While you could segment them in Caret, I wouldn't 
> describe this process as automatic.  While you'd probably have a
handle 
> or two to patch with F99UA12, your work would be far easier with that 
> volume, not only because it is a single subject, but also because the 
> quality is spectacular.  But why do it when it has been done, and the 
> segmentation volume is available?
> 
> How were you planning to use the extracted brains?
> 
> Donna
> 
> On 07/15/2008 09:50 AM, Hamied Haroon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Is there any way in Caret (v5.502) to automatically extract the brain

>> in the MRI volumes of the F99UA12, F6 and M3 macaque atlases, please?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Hamied
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
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