Open larsoner opened 2 years ago
+1 to support a different template that fsaverage and make sure it contains the same derivatives as for fsaverage so they can be swapped easily
Message ID: <mne-tools/mne-bids-pipeline/issue/581/issue_event/7103147426@ github.com>
As part of https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-bids-pipeline/issues/574, I've created a single subject with a
mne coreg
warp of theANTS6-0Months3T
infant template provided byfetch_infant_template
. There is currently no "nice" way for me to include this AFAIK in the dataset. I see two options (maybe we want to support both?):1. Include as freesurfer derivative
I could add the warped MRI as
derivatives/freesurfer/<subject>
, butmne-bids-pipeline
doesn't seem to have the logic to look for already-existing BEM solutions. I could add this support and upload to openneuro with the warped MRI as a FreeSurfer derivative, then I think everything could "just work".2. Add support for non-
fsaverage
templatesThis would be a potentially cleaner solution since it would only require me shipping one small text file rather than a whole FreeSurfer subject directory. It would require something like
fsaverage
templates in MNE-BIDS-Pipeline (at least theANTS*
templates).-trans.fif
plus theMRI scaling parameters.cfg
file that tellsmne.coreg.scale_mri
how to scaleANTS6-0Months3T
to make the template subject. This could be done in a backward compatible way forfsaverage
where, if not found, uses the current trans (and uniform scaling?) method.From this the necessary FreeSurfer subjects could be created.
Notably, in either of these cases, the BEM code would need to be updated a bit -- the data are MEG-only, which triggers MNE-BIDS-Pipeline to want to use 1-layer BEMs, but the ones for ANTS* templates are all 3-layer (and I think it should be okay/acceptable to use 3-layer BEMs with MEG data if you want and they are already available).
We could have a quick video chat about this at some point to hash out the ideas @hoechenberger @agramfort