Full morphology processing of a T1 anatomical image using FreeSurfer recon-all script [Dale et al. 1999]. Includes:
- Image pre-processing: intensity normalization, skull-stripping.
- Tissue segmentation into CSF, cortical grey matter, subcortical grey matter, white matter, brainstem and cerebellum.
- Atlas-based parcellation and labeling using DKT40 scheme.
- Cortical thickness computation for cortical regions.
Volumetric report output samples
Fig 1 - Volumetric information
Fig 2 - Freesurfer recon-all segmentation
Required inputs:
- T1: anatomical 3D image
- Isotropic resolution recommended
- Must be labeled as 'T1' modality
Optional inputs:
- T2: anatomical 3D image
- Isotropic resolution recommended
- Must be labeled as 'T2' modality
- T2 FLAIR: anatomical 3D image
- Isotropic resolution recommended
- Must be labeled as 'T2' modality and have a ‘flair’ tag
Minimum input requirements:
- Image must contain full skull (not be brain extracted). For optimal result reliability, isotropic resolution is recommended
- Recommended resolution: 1 mm isotropic.
- Minimum reliable resolution: 2 mm isotropic.
Outputs:
- Workflow main output:
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- report.pdf: report file with results summary.
- Aseg_stats CSV files: Freesurfer volumetry and thickness complete results.
- Volumetric.csv: CSV file with gray matter parcellated regions volume and cortical thickness information
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- Images in RECONALL step:
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- T1.nii.gz: the input T1 image used in the tool.
- T1brain.nii.gz: preprocessed T1 image acpc-aligned.
- labeled.nii.gz: preprocessed and skull-stripped T1 image.
- tissueSegmentation.nii.gz: 5-tissue (csf, gm, wm, brainstem, cerebellum) tissue segmentation image.
- Folders:
- FREESURFER: Folder with full outputs of the FreeSurfer recon-all script [More information on FreeSurfer outputs].
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Typical execution time:
- 7 hours.
References:
- FreeSurfer: [Dale et al. 1999], [Fischl et al. 1999], [Fischl et al. 2000], [Fischl et al. 2002], [Fischl et al. 2004]
License Information:
- Users of this tool should be in possession of a FreeSurfer license. Obtaining a license is free and comes in the form of a license.txt file.
- More information on the FreeSurfer license can be found here.
- Follow this link to obtain a license key.