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Dear Christian, Which characteritics, resolution, number of slices, etc, must have the T1 and FLAIR images? Thanks John Ochoa Universidad de Antioquia On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Christian Gaser < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear SPM users, > > we are happy to announce the first release of the Lesion Segmentation Tool > (LST) for the segmentation of lesions in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for SPM. > It is able to detect T2 hyperintense lesions based on a T1 and a FLAIR > image. Beside the segmentation a utility function for filling lesions in T1 > images is implemented. Even though it is still under construction, we hope > that the tool will be able to contribute to current MS research. The > toolbox was developed, see Schmidt et al. (2012), by a coorperation of the > following organizations: Morphometry Group, Department of Neurology, > Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Department of Statistics, > Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, and Structural Brain > Mapping Group, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, > Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany. The reason for its > development was the need for an implemented open source tool for the > segmentation of lesions MS. > > At this point in time, only a lesion growth algorithm is implemented, see > Schmidt et al. (2012). We may include further lesion segmentation > algorithms and other utility functions to this toolbox in the future. > > Plese note that for using the LST toolbox the installation of the VBM8 > toolbox is necessary: > > http://dbm.neuro.uni-jena.de/vbm8 > > The paper can be downloaded at: > http://dbm.neuro.uni-jena.de/pdf-files/Schmidt-NI11.pdf > > > Regards, > > Christian Gaser (on behalf of the authors) >