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Pipelines

Complete multi-step analysis pipelines that chain several operations internally. Each tool orchestrates preprocessing, registration, segmentation, or analysis stages as a single command.

FSL

Docker image: brainlife/fsl

Structural

Tool Description
FSL Anatomical Processing Pipeline Comprehensive automated pipeline for structural T1 processing including reorientation, cropping, bias correction, reg...
Structural Image Evaluation using Normalisation of Atrophy (SIENA) Multi-step pipeline that estimates percentage brain volume change between two timepoints. Internally chains BET brain...
SIENA Cross-Sectional (SIENAX) Multi-step pipeline for cross-sectional brain volume estimation. Internally chains BET brain extraction, atlas regist...
FMRIB's Integrated Registration and Segmentation Tool (FIRST) Multi-step pipeline for subcortical structure segmentation. Internally chains registration, boundary correction, and ...

Functional

Tool Description
FMRI Expert Analysis Tool (FEAT) Complete fMRI analysis pipeline combining preprocessing (motion correction, spatial smoothing, temporal filtering), f...
Multivariate Exploratory Linear Optimized Decomposition into Independent Components (MELODIC) Multi-step ICA pipeline that decomposes fMRI data into spatially independent components. Internally chains brain mask...
FSL Dual Regression Multi-step pipeline that projects group-level ICA spatial maps back to individual subjects. Internally chains spatial...

Diffusion

Tool Description
Bayesian Estimation of Diffusion Parameters Obtained using Sampling Techniques (BEDPOSTX) Multi-step pipeline for Bayesian estimation of fiber orientation distributions. Internally runs multi-fiber MCMC samp...

ASL

Tool Description
Oxford ASL Processing Pipeline Multi-step pipeline for ASL MRI quantification. Internally chains motion correction, registration, BASIL kinetic mode...

ANTs

Docker image: antsx/ants

Structural

Tool Description
ANTs Cortical Thickness Pipeline Complete automated pipeline for cortical thickness estimation using DiReCT, including brain extraction, segmentation,...
ANTs Combined Atropos with N4 Bias Correction Iteratively combines N4 bias field correction with Atropos segmentation for improved results on biased images.

FreeSurfer

Docker image: freesurfer/freesurfer

Surface Reconstruction

Tool Description
FreeSurfer Complete Cortical Reconstruction Pipeline Fully automated pipeline for cortical surface reconstruction and parcellation, including skull stripping, segmentatio...

fMRIPrep

Docker image: nipreps/fmriprep

fMRI Preprocessing

Tool Description
fMRIPrep: Robust fMRI Preprocessing Pipeline Automated, robust preprocessing pipeline for task-based and resting-state fMRI, combining tools from FSL, FreeSurfer,...

MRIQC

Docker image: nipreps/mriqc

Quality Control

Tool Description
MRIQC: MRI Quality Control Pipeline Multi-step quality control pipeline. Internally chains brain extraction, spatial normalization, and computation of do...

ICA-AROMA

Docker image: rtrhd/ica-aroma

Denoising

Tool Description
ICA-based Automatic Removal of Motion Artifacts (ICA-AROMA) Multi-step denoising pipeline for fMRI motion artifact removal. Internally chains MELODIC ICA decomposition, motion a...