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

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/460675v2

Manuscript: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24693

Documentation: https://afids.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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• 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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• Website for the AFID protocol as taught as a training workshop for BHG18
• Tutorial given as part of BHG18 [video]
• Download Slicer
• AFID validator (alpha stage); started at BHG18-Western
• Scicrunch (RRID:SCR_016623)