AFIDs

An open framework for evaluating correspondence in brain images and teaching neuroanatomy using anatomical fiducial placement

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Introduction

The AFID protocol is an anatomical fiducial placement protocol that has been validated and used for teaching at a number of local and BHG-related events including https://github.com/BrainhackWestern/BrainhackWestern.github.io/wiki/Tutorials.
AFID placement is reproducible, not overtly manually intensive (20-40 minutes once trained), and more sensitive to local registration errors than standard voxel overlap measures.
This protocol and study framework leverages open resources and tools, and has been developed with full transparency in mind so that others may freely use, adopt, and modify.
60+ raters trained to date.

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