Normalization pipeline¶
Morphometrics measures are output from sct_process_segmentation and include cross-sectional area (area), anteroposterior diameter (diameter_AP), right-left diameter (diameter_RL), eccentricity and solidity. Metrics are normalized using the non-compressed levels above and below the compression site using the equation in the figure below.
Additionally, if the -normalize-hc 1
flag is used, metrics are normalized using a database
built from adult healthy participants. This database uses the PAM50 template as an anatomical
reference system.

Normalized metric ratio using a database of healthy controls.¶
- Legend:
mi
: metric at the compression level.ma
: metric above the compression levels.mb
: metric below the compression level.