Inspecting the results of processing

After running the entire pipeline, you should have all results under the output/results/ folder.

CSA for T2 data

Here for example, we show the mean CSA averaged between C2-C3 levels computed from the T2 data. Each line represents a subject.

CSA.csv: CSA values in T2 data across 3 subjects

Filename

Slice (I->S)

VertLevel

MEAN(area)

STD(area)

sub-01_T2w_seg.nii.gz

161:203

2:3

83.5690681039387

2.82182217691781

sub-03_T2w_seg.nii.gz

159:199

2:3

60.6215201725797

2.87402688226702

sub-05_T2w_seg.nii.gz

159:190

2:3

68.763579167899

3.19840203029727

The variability is mainly due to the inherent variability of CSA across subjects.

MTR in white matter

Here are the results of MTR quantification in the dorsal column of each subject between C2 and C5. Notice the remarkable inter-subject consistency.

MTR_in_DC.csv: MTR values values in white matter (dorsal columns) across 3 subjects

Filename

Slice (I->S)

VertLevel

Label

Size [vox]

MAP()

STD()

sub-01/anat/mtr.nii.gz

3:16

2:5

dorsal columns

370.15204844543

49.7198531140872

4.99870360243909

sub-03/anat/mtr.nii.gz

3:15

2:5

dorsal columns

282.686966627213

49.3521578793729

5.19981366995629

sub-05/anat/mtr.nii.gz

4:13

2:5

dorsal columns

229.620127825366

49.2113270517532

4.76773091479419

Quality Control report

A QC report is generated under qc/. As shown before, the QC report is useful to quickly assess the quality of the analysis pipeline.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spinalcordtoolbox/doc-figures/master/batch-processing-of-subjects/qc.png