Continuous MRS Analysis

This is a repository holding an automated MRS analysis workflow for continous QA and processing.

Getting started

Installation

Download the compiled Osprey code matching your OS from the release page, follow the installation instructions, copy the basissets folder into the application folder on your machine.

First steps

Follow the Setup & Installation instructions to download and install the required packages. Next, follow the configuration steps to setup the continuous workflow on your system.

Contact, Feedback, Suggestions

For any sort of questions, feedback, suggestions, or critique, please visit the MRSHub. We also welcome your direct contributions here in the GitHub repository.

Developers

• Helge J. Zöllner
• Aaron T. Gudmundson
• Christopher W. Davies-Jenkins
• Georg Oeltzschner

Should you publish material that made use of the workflow, please cite the following publication:

Helge J. Zöllner, Christopher W. Davies-Jenkins, Erik G. Lee, Timothy J. Hendrickson, William T. Clarke, Richard A. E. Edden, Jessica L. Wisnowski, Aaron T. Gudmundson, Georg Oeltzschner. Continuous automated MRS data analysis workflow for applied studies. bioRxiv (2022).

External tools

If you are interested in using any of the tools outside of the implemented workflow please visit their respective GitHub repository:

• Osprey
• spec2nii
• bidscoin

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by NIH grants R00 AG062230, R21 EB033516, R01 EB016089, R01 EB023963, and P41 EB031771. We also wish to thank the following individuals for their contributions to the development of the workflow:

• William T. Clarke (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
• Marcel P. Zwiers (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognitive and Behaviour, Radboud University)