Dear SPM gurus!
My group processes structural MRIs from an elderly subject population and
hence face the problems of atrophied brain images, etat crible, and so
on. We find a need to create our own templates for subpopulations and
generally I think do more processing than folks working with "normal"
populations. A desire to use batch processing, once the images have been
stripped, AC-PC aligned, etc is quite high on the agenda.
I note some discussions especially from September last year on this list
(Yanjun, Neggers, et al), where batch processing was often mentioned in the
context of fMRI. In a nutshell, what is the status of SPM's batch
capabilities as relates to structural work for normalisation, segmentation
and the production of templates?
It would be wonderful, for example, to be simply able to edit a list of
filenames to include or exclude subjects newly enroled to or deleted from a
study, or to create fresh file lists to automate the process of creating
different subpopulations within our overall cohort (eg. clinical symptoms
vs symptom-free.) The current pointy-clicky GUI interface manual method
is error prone at best. Using imcalc's parameter setup
(i1+i2+i3+...+iN)/N can also be error prone and rather tiresome to input
for large N.
Kind regards,
Denis
(Sorry for a possibly "dumb" question.)
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