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Connectome Workbench CIFTI Dense Timeseries Creation

Library: Connectome Workbench | Docker Image: khanlab/connectome-workbench

Function

Creates a CIFTI dense timeseries file (.dtseries.nii) combining cortical surface data with subcortical volume data in a single grayordinates representation.

Modality: Surface GIFTI files (left/right hemisphere) plus subcortical volume NIfTI, or volume-only input.

Typical Use: Creating CIFTI format fMRI data for HCP-style surface-based analysis.

Key Parameters

-volume

Key Points

Core format for HCP-style analysis. Combines cortical surfaces and subcortical volumes. Standard grayordinate space is 91k (32k per hemisphere + subcortical).

Inputs

Name Type Required Label Flag
cifti_out string Yes Output CIFTI dense timeseries file (.dtseries.nii)
volume_data File No Volume file containing all voxel data for volume structures -volume
structure_label_volume File No Label volume identifying CIFTI structures
left_metric File No Metric file for left cortical surface -left-metric
roi_left File No ROI of vertices to use from left surface -roi-left
right_metric File No Metric file for right cortical surface -right-metric
roi_right File No ROI of vertices to use from right surface -roi-right
cerebellum_metric File No Metric file for cerebellum surface -cerebellum-metric
timestep double No Time step between frames in seconds (default 1.0) -timestep
timestart double No Starting time in seconds (default 0.0) -timestart
unit enum No Unit of timestep (default SECOND) -unit

Accepted Input Extensions

  • volume_data: .nii, .nii.gz
  • structure_label_volume: .nii, .nii.gz
  • left_metric: .func.gii, .shape.gii
  • roi_left: .func.gii, .shape.gii
  • right_metric: .func.gii, .shape.gii
  • roi_right: .func.gii, .shape.gii
  • cerebellum_metric: .func.gii, .shape.gii

Outputs

Name Type Glob Pattern
cifti_output File $(inputs.cifti_out)
log File wb_cifti_create_dense_timeseries.log
err_log File wb_cifti_create_dense_timeseries.err.log

Output Extensions

  • cifti_output: .dtseries.nii

Docker Tags

Available versions: latest

Categories

  • Functional MRI > Connectome Workbench > CIFTI Operations

Documentation

Official Documentation