After the evaluations done by Klein et al (published in NeuroImage), I
figured that the use of slightly more regularisation may increase the
accuracy slightly. Klein's evaluations seemed to show that the
algorithm was aligning GM with GM with a very good overlap of tissue
type, but that its extrapolation of the deformations into other regions
may not be as accurate as it could have been. A slight decrease in the
amount of regularisation should therefore improve the extrapolation, and
the overall accuracy.
In practice, the amount, and form, of regularisation used by the
registration model will often have a bigger effect on the resulting
accuracies than the differences between the actual implementations
themselves. Also, because of inherent bias-variance trade-offs, the
optimal amount of regularisation will depend on the aims of the study,
and possibly how many subjects are included.
Best regards,
-John
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 20:10 -0800, Fumiko Hoeft wrote:
> Dear experts,
> I was wondering if one discrepancy we found between SPM5 and SPM8
> dartel is a bug or feature. The section we are referring to is the
> regularisation parameters of the last outer iteration. SPM5 is "0.125
> 0.0625 1e-06" but in SPM8, the default is "0.25 0.125 1e-06". Could
> someone let me know?
> Thank you.
> Best,
> Fumiko
>
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