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Dear AFNI users-

We are very pleased to announce that the new AFNI Message Board framework is up! Please join us at:

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The current Message Board discussion threads have been migrated to the new framework. The current Message Board will remain visible, but read-only, for a little while.

Sincerely, AFNI HQ

History of AFNI updates  

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May 31, 2017 09:11PM
Hey,

Is 3dAutomask (generally) more generous in it's estimation of the brain when skullstripping EPI images than 3dSkullStrip?

I ask because in this screen shot (run on the same data from the same subject), on the left can be seen an invocation of align_epi_anat.py with 3dSkullStrip as the default and on the right is an invocation of aea with 3dAutomask as the skull stripper. Both invocations produce good alignments but the extent of the brain from the invocation involving 3dAutomask is clearly bigger.

Is there a reason to prefer 3dAutomask over 3dSkullStrip fro skullstripping EPI data?

LEFT AFNI:
align_epi_anat.py -anat2epi			\
		  -anat ${anatFile}		\
		  -epi ${epiFile}		\
		  -epi_base 0			\
		  -volreg off			\
		  -tshift off			\
		  -cost lpc			\
		  -multi_cost lpa lpc+ZZ mi

RIGHT AFNI:
align_epi_anat.py -anat2epi -anat bc002b.anat_unif+orig \
       -suffix _al_keep                                 \
       -epi vr_base+orig -epi_base 0                    \
       -epi_strip 3dAutomask                            \
       -cost lpc                                        \
       -volreg off -tshift off
Subject Author Posted

3dSkullStrip vs 3dAutomask for stripping EPI data

Colm Connolly May 31, 2017 09:11PM

Re: 3dSkullStrip vs 3dAutomask for stripping EPI data

rick reynolds June 08, 2017 08:31PM

Re: 3dSkullStrip vs 3dAutomask for stripping EPI data

Daniel Glen June 09, 2017 04:06PM