Ratings & Reviews   User Reviews  ( 21 )   
Overall: 4.5 out of 5Installation: 4 out of 5Documentation: 3.5 out of 5
Individual Rating Results for FreeSurfer

Review 21 of FreeSurfer on Apr 19, 2010
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  5 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  3 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  2 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  The software provides automatic and precise extraction of cortical surface.
Other Comments/Similar Tools:  Software components are accessible from command line interface.
Review 20 of FreeSurfer on Oct 20, 2009
Version Reviewed:  FS 4.0
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  5 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  4 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  3 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  I think for accuracy of group averaging that FreeSurfer is your best bet. However, it is not for the computer illiterate. I would find it very difficult to navigate FreeSurfer without having someone who has used it before me show me what I need to do. That said, the FreeSurfer mailing list is an excellent resource as is the mail archive. Another great benefit of FreeSurfer is that it is very easy to automate many processing streams. If you know what you are doing, you can save a lot of time. I would definitely recommend FreeSurfer but I would qualify that you should find an experienced user before you try to surf on your own.
Review 19 of FreeSurfer on Oct 20, 2009
Version Reviewed:  4.0.4 - 4.1
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  4 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  -amazing support from MGH group -VERY automated but may need manual editing -recent paper (Morey et al., 2009; NeuroImage) underscores subcortical segmentation may be less valid than some realize -can create study/site specific atlas for parcellation or segmentation
Review 18 of FreeSurfer on Oct 19, 2009
Version Reviewed:  4
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  2 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  3 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  documentation is somewhat sparse but updated regularly
Other Comments/Similar Tools:  relatively easy to use at the command line
Review 17 of FreeSurfer on Oct 18, 2009
Version Reviewed:  NA
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  4 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  2 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  good and easy use but bad documant Actually I met some difficult to follow the manual.
Review 16 of FreeSurfer on Oct 18, 2009
Version Reviewed:  4.5.0
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  5 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  5 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  4 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  Very useful and robust tool for cortical surface analysis. Developers are dedicated to continued product development as well as providing support. Wiki and mailing lists can be difficult to navigate at times, but overall very helpful.
Review 15 of FreeSurfer on Oct 18, 2009
Version Reviewed:  4.5
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  5 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  4 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  3 out of 5
Review 14 of FreeSurfer on Jun 21, 2009
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  3 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  5 out of 5
Review 13 of FreeSurfer on Jun 21, 2009
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  3 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  5 out of 5
Review 12 of FreeSurfer on Jun 21, 2009
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  5 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  5 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  3 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  Does what it says it does, but I have no idea what is going on under the hood of that massive recon-all script. Wonderful for cortical surface and white matter surface extraction, and for surface based analysis.
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