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mriqc: image quality metrics for quality assessment of MRI
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MRIQC is developed by `the Poldrack Lab at Stanford University
<https://poldracklab.stanford.edu>`_ for use at the `Center for Reproducible
Neuroscience (CRN) <http://reproducibility.stanford.edu>`_, as well as
for open-source software distribution.
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About
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MRIQC extracts no-reference IQMs (image quality metrics) from
structural (T1w and T2w) and functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
data.
MRIQC is an open-source project, developed under the following
software engineering principles:
#. **Modularity and integrability**: MRIQC implements a
`nipype <http://nipype.readthedocs.io>`_ workflow to integrate modular
sub-workflows that rely upon third party software toolboxes such as
FSL, ANTs and AFNI.
#. **Minimal preprocessing**: the MRIQC workflows should be as minimal
as possible to estimate the IQMs on the original data or their minimally
processed derivatives.
#. **Interoperability and standards**: MRIQC follows the the `brain imaging data structure
(BIDS) <http://bids.neuroimaging.io>`_, and it adopts the `BIDS-App
<http://bids-apps.neuroimaging.io>`_ standard.
#. **Reliability and robustness**: the software undergoes frequent vetting sprints
by testing its robustness against data variability (acquisition parameters,
physiological differences, etc.) using images from `OpenfMRI <https://openfmri.org>`_.
Its reliability is permanently checked and maintained with
`CircleCI <https://circleci.com/gh/poldracklab/mriqc>`_.
MRIQC is part of the MRI image analysis and reproducibility platform offered by
the CRN. This pipeline derives from, and is heavily influenced by, the
`PCP Quality Assessment Protocol <http://preprocessed-connectomes-project.github.io/quality-assessment-protocol>`_.
Citation
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.. topic:: **When using MRIQC, please include the following citation:**
Esteban O, Birman D, Schaer M, Koyejo OO, Poldrack RA, Gorgolewski KJ;
*MRIQC: Advancing the Automatic Prediction of Image Quality in MRI from Unseen Sites*;
PLOS ONE 12(9):e0184661; doi:`10.1371/journal.pone.0184661 <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184661>`_.
Support and communication
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The documentation of this project is found here: http://mriqc.readthedocs.io/.
Users can get help using the `mriqc-users google group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mriqc-users>`_.
All bugs, concerns and enhancement requests for this software can be submitted here:
https://github.com/poldracklab/mriqc/issues.
Authors
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Oscar Esteban, Krzysztof F. Gorgolewski.
Poldrack Lab, Psychology Department, Stanford University,
and Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, Stanford University.
.. topic:: **Thanks**
* The QAP developers (C. Craddock, S. Giavasis, D. Clark, Z. Shezhad, and J.
Pellman) for the initial base of code which MRIQC was forked from.
* W Triplett and CA Moodie for their initial contributions with bugfixes and documentation, and
* J Varada for his contributions on the source code.
License information
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We use the 3-clause BSD license; the full license is in the file ``LICENSE`` in
the ``mriqc`` distribution.
All trademarks referenced herein are property of their respective
holders.
Copyright (c) 2015-2017, the mriqc developers and the CRN.
All rights reserved.