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. 2017 Oct 12;12(10):e0186071. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186071

Fig 1. Illustration of the pre-processing pipeline.

Fig 1

OASIS data are first converted into structural NIfTI (ORIG) and MGZ files. MGZ files are processed via FreeSurfer (FS). NIfTI files are rotated (RROT) which are then N4-bias corrected (N4BC). Also, RROT files are skull-stripped (N4SS; which has its own bias correction step). The output of each pipeline step is registered with a segmented template, and ROI masks are warped from template to participant pipeline-step space. ROI volumes are then extracted from the segmentation masks. FreeSurfer pre-processing is entirely self-contained, and produced its own set of ROI volumes.