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DOC: Indicate that 2 T1w images are not merged to an unbiased template #2885

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effigies opened this issue Oct 26, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2905
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DOC: Indicate that 2 T1w images are not merged to an unbiased template #2885

effigies opened this issue Oct 26, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2905
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Following https://neurostars.org/t/specify-anatomic-image/23853/9, it seems our docs are inaccurate.

In the case of multiple T1w images (across sessions and/or runs), T1w images are merged into a single template image using FreeSurfer’s mri_robust_template. This template may be unbiased , or equidistant from all source images, or aligned to the first image (determined lexicographically by session label). For two images, the additional cost of estimating an unbiased template is trivial and is the default behavior, but, for greater than two images, the cost can be a slowdown of an order of magnitude. Therefore, in the case of three or more images, fMRIPrep constructs templates aligned to the first image, unless passed the --longitudinal flag, which forces the estimation of an unbiased template.

This seems to indicate that we make an unbiased template for two images but not three or more. In fact, we always use --fixtp unless --longitudinal is set.

@effigies effigies added this to the 22.1.0 milestone Dec 3, 2022
effigies added a commit that referenced this issue Dec 7, 2022
The text previously indicated that we make an unbiased template for two
images but not three or more. In fact, we always use --fixtp unless
--longitudinal is set.

Closes #2885.
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