Latest Release: Version 1.8.6 Beta (Jan 15, 2024)#

New Features

  • C-PAC can now ingress` fMRIPrep <https://www2.childmind.org/e/908232/en-stable-/3mvpmy/2326103788/h/_5fpbWs4zmSoHM8JlOMzlLaQ62nt_LTCkOtj1s5TL_E>`_ output data.

    • Users can now perform further processing on fMRIPrep-processed data through C-PAC, using any template-space processing they wish to employ. This includes using the nuisance confounds generated by fMRIPrep to perform nuisance denoising on the preprocessed BOLD data.

    • A fMRIPrep-ingress pre-configured pipeline configuration (pre-config) has been created to make it easy to get started. This pre-config can be modified to suit a user’s specific processing needs.

    • This is part of a wider project leading to the ability to easily ingress any BIDS-format output directory.

Improvements

  • The motion parameter and motion derivative outputs have been converted to BIDS-compliant formats.

  • A tip box has been added to appear when C-PAC returns with a “missing outputs” error.

  • The data configuration builder tool can now easily add` FreeSurfer <https://www2.childmind.org/e/908232/2023-12-21/3mvpn2/2326103788/h/_5fpbWs4zmSoHM8JlOMzlLaQ62nt_LTCkOtj1s5TL_E>`_ output directories for the purpose of ingressing FreeSurfer data into your C-PAC pipeline.

  • A large number of C-PAC’s dependencies has been upgraded to more recent versions, including

    • Ubuntu (18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’→22.04 ‘Jammy Jellyfish’)

    • Python (3.7.13→3.10.6)

    • AFNI (21.1.00 ‘Domitian’→23.3.09 ‘Septimius Severus’)

    • ANTs (2.3.3 ‘Leptomyrmex’→2.4.3 ‘Emplastus’)

    • FSL (5.0.9→6.0.6.5)

    • Nipype (1.5.1→1.8.6)

  • Please refer to the “Upgraded dependencies” section of the changelog for 1.8.6 or the release notes in the user guide for a full list of these upgrades.

  • torch, a large dependency that is used by U-Net and nothing else in C-PAC, has been removed from the pre-installed dependencies in the C-PAC image and is now installed in the container at runtime if U-Net is selected in the configuration being run.

Bug Fixes

  • When motion parameters are filtered, C-PAC now uses the filtered version of the motion parameters downstream - for example, in nuisance regression/denoising.

  • Fixed a bug where some connectivity matrices wouldn’t generate if anatomical and functional outputs were in different resolutions.

  • Repaired the handling of 3dECM (network centrality) outputs for AFNI≥21.1.1.

  • Fixed a bug (introduced in v1.8.0) where sparsity thresholds were not being scaled for network centrality.

  • Fixed a bug where calculate_motion_first would not calculate motion at all.

  • Fixed an error message that was reporting missing resources in pipeline nodeblocks, but was referring to the incorrect nodeblock in question.