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Key Investigators
- UNC: Heather Cody Hazlett, Martin Styner, Clement Vachet
- MGH: ?
Objective
Our goal is to begin a longitudinal study of early brain development by cortical thickness in autistic children and controls (2 years with follow-up at 4 years). We want to be able to make statistical group comparisons.
Approach, Plan
Our approach is to create an average cortical thickness map for each population.
Our plan for the project week is to learn how to use FreeSurfer, and run it on several cases. We would also like to use our itkEMS lab tool to compute cortical thickness on segmented images. A study comparison between our CortThick tool and Freesurfer needs to be done to compare method's reliability.
Progress
This section will get filled out at the end of the Project week.
