MGH Site Summary

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• MGH Site Summary

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MGH Tools Summary

• New Version of FreeSurfer
• New features
• Moving to open source
• BIRND-UP Improvements
• Batch processing, license free version
• Gradient Unwarping Workflow
• Research-Agreement-free
• Portal version operational
• Direct connection to SRB version in progress

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MGH Tools Summary - FreeSurfer

• Subcortical segmentations,
• Integration with 3D-Slicer
• Automated filling of ventricles and basal
  ganglia,
• Improved skull-stripping and cutting plane
  definition,
• New parcellation (Desikan-Killiany),
• Surface-based General Linear Model analysis

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MGH Tools Summary BIRND-UP
Outstanding Issue Is the IRB standard moving
Towards all structural data being defaced?
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MGH Tools Summary Gradient Unwarping
Portal Version
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MGH Data Summary

• Structural Calibration data
• 5 subject, 5 site, 2 scans
• Now posted on nbirn.net Downloads page
• Manuscript in preparation
• Pfizer Study
• 15 subjects scanned twice, different vendors
• Manuscript in preparation
• DTI Calibration Study
• Joint Study with Duke, JHU, UT SW Medical
  Dallas, (Japan site) IRB approved

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MGH Collaborations Summary

• Framingham Heart Study
• 3500 data sets, multiple timepoints
• Data sets from original participants progeny
• Rich set of metadata
• Preliminary FreeSurfer data processing and
• distortion correction
• Enable publishing of imaging and metadata
• Pediatric Data Set Jay Geidd
• 3000 scans over past 10 years
• healthy subjects ADHD Schizophrenia