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Corrected Initial T1w and T2w pediatric templates
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@NadiaBlostein NadiaBlostein released this 10 Oct 11:18
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Initial templates generated the structural MRI data of 18 pediatric subjects. The T1w and T2w templates were created separately and averaging was stopped after 8 iterations.

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Summary of template-generation (repeated from comment above)

  1. An initial template space is generated based on the average length of the intervertebral levels of the subjects in the dataset of interest. It gets saved downstream as a file called template_mask.mnc.

  2. The straightening and normalization method straightens all of the spinal cord images of the subjects and brings them into the same space as template_mask.mnc.

  3. An iterative vowel-wise inter-subject averaging begins.

Current templates + previous error explained

  1. An initial template space is generated based on the average length of the intervertebral levels of the subjects in the dataset of interest. It gets saved downstream as a file called template_mask.mnc. CHECKPOINT 1:

    • For the T1w images of the pediatric dataset, template_mask.mnc has xyz dimensions 201 x 201 x 688.
    • For the T2w images of the pediatric dataset, template_mask.mnc has xyz dimensions 201 x 201 x 680.

  2. The straightening and normalization method straightens all of the spinal cord images of the subjects and brings them into the same space as template_mask.mnc.

    • For the T1w images of the pediatric dataset, all of the straightened images have xyz dimensions 201 x 201 x 688.
    • For the T2w images of the pediatric dataset, all of the straightened images have xyz dimensions 201 x 201 x 680.
    • ERROR EXPLAINED: The reason why this was not the case prior was due to an error on my part: the straightening and normalization has to be performed on ALL of the subjects at once such that template_mask.mnc is generated correctly. I originally performed the straightening and normalization in batches, meaning that the dimensions of template_mask.mnc were not based on an average across all subejcts. Is this clear?

  3. The iterative vowel-wise inter-subject averaging begins.

    • For the T1w images of the pediatric dataset, this outputs a file (saved as pediatric-template_T1w.nii.gz after 8 iterations) with dimensions 201 x 201 x 688.
    • For the T2w images of the pediatric dataset, this outputs a file (saved as pediatric-template_T2w.nii.gz after 8 iterations) with dimensions 201 x 201 x 680.
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