Week of 5.22.23 to 5.26.23

• v1.8.5 Release.
  • The v1.8.5 release tag was set.
  • In-progress: the processing of the PR backlog for features and additions slated for version 1.8.6.
• fmriprep ingress.
  • The fmriprep desc-confounds_timeseries TSV ingress functionality now includes:
    • The ability to select which columns to include in your nuisance regression model in the C-PAC pipeline configuration file.
    • Guard rails for non-existent selections.
    • Guard rails for incomplete confounds data.
  • Testing of the compatibility of template-space derivatives (ALFF + f/ALFF, ReHo, Network Centrality) run on ingressed fmriprep data in-progress.
    • A few changes were needed to update the interfaces of the derivative nodeblocks, namely:
      • The naming of the template-space mask that accompanies the template-space BOLD data.
      • The addition of the functional write-out resolution version of the BOLD data to the accepted inputs for the derivatives. Originally, only C-PAC's specific res-deriative_* version of the BOLD data was accepted by the derivative nodeblocks. Now, as a secondary option via list, it also accepts original resolution to accommodate ingressed data.
• Testing Automation.
  • A script prototype was developed which produces an HTML dashboard of mask overlays - for example, the T1w and bold masks overlaid their respective data, and the segmentation tissue masks.
  • This is slated to be integrated into the automated test runs so that the developers can have more frequent data visualization reports.
  • Next, the script will be expanded in both functionality and appearance.
• Motion estimate filter updates.
  • The filtfilt operation was re-introduced into the motion estimate filter code, and an erroneous filter loop was removed.