Dear All,
this is just a brief announcement that the new "Optimized Censoring
Toolbox" for spm12 is now available for free download at our website at
www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/kinder/en/research/neuroimaging/software/
Based on three different outlier criteria, it aims to identify outlying
datapoints in single-subject fMRI sessions. It is applicable to
task-based as well as resting-state fMRI, and (despite the name) allows
for automated censoring, interpolation, or both. It is mainly meant to
be helpful when you cannot afford to loose an individual session despite
it being of moderate quality, i.e., particularly in the setting of
clinically-indicated fMRI, or when investigating small groups.
It was developed as part of a cooperation between the Institute of Child
Health Developmental Neurosciences Programme, University College London,
and the Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging Group here in Tuebingen.
Important input came from Tom Nichols and Paul Mazaika. The toolbox is
(I hope) fully integrated into the SPM12 batch system but can of course
also be run interactively and from the command line.
The paper describing the approach and some aspects regarding censoring
vs. interpolation is available at
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.02.008
A preprint is also included in the toolbox download itself.
As always, we hope this helps.
Cheers,
Marko
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Prof. Dr. med. Marko Wilke
Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
Leiter, Experimentelle Pädiatrische Neurobildgebung
Oberarzt der Abteilung Neuropädiatrie
Universitäts-Kinderklinik
Marko Wilke, MD, PhD
Pediatrician
Head, Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging
Consultant in Pediatric Neurology
University Children's Hospital
Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 1
D - 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Tel. +49 7071 29-83416
Fax +49 7071 29-5473
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