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FreeSurfer Surface Anatomical Statistics

Library: FreeSurfer | Docker Image: freesurfer/freesurfer

Function

Computes surface-based morphometric measures (thickness, area, volume, curvature) for each region in a parcellation.

Modality: FreeSurfer subject directory with completed recon-all.

Typical Use: Extracting regional cortical thickness, area, and volume measures.

Key Parameters

-a (annotation file), -f (output stats file), -b (output table format)

Key Points

Outputs per-region cortical thickness, surface area, gray matter volume, and curvature.

Inputs

Name Type Required Label Flag
subjects_dir Directory Yes FreeSurfer SUBJECTS_DIR
fs_license File Yes FreeSurfer license file
subject string Yes Subject name
hemi enum Yes Hemisphere (lh or rh)
annotation File No Annotation file for parcellation -a
tablefile string No Output table filename -f
white string No White surface name (default white)
pial string No Pial surface name -pial
label File No Limit stats to label region -l
cortex File No Cortex label file -cortex
th3 boolean No Use tetrahedra for volume (recommended) -th3
thickness string No Thickness file name -t
b boolean No Report total brain volume -b
noglobal boolean No Do not compute global stats -noglobal
log string No Log file name -log
ctab File No Color table file -ctab
mgz boolean No Use mgz format -mgz

Accepted Input Extensions

  • annotation: .annot
  • label: .label
  • cortex: .label
  • ctab: .txt, .ctab

Outputs

Name Type Glob Pattern
stats_table File $(inputs.tablefile)
stats File *.stats
log_file File mris_anatomical_stats.log

Output Extensions

  • stats_table: .txt, .csv, .dat
  • stats: .stats

Docker Tags

Available versions: latest, 8.1.0, 8.0.0, 7.2.0, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.4.1, 7.1.1, 6.0

Categories

  • Structural MRI > FreeSurfer > Morphometry

Documentation

Official Documentation