Have your say in the design of BIP - The UK Biobank Brain Imaging Pipeline!

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The image processing pipeline for UK Biobank brain imaging (1), has been used to process more than 72k UKB datasets, and >500 papers have used its outputs. The pipeline works with T1, T2 FLAIR, swMRI, dMRI, rfMRI, tfMRI (and ASL in recent subjects) and consists of a mix of scripts in bash, Python and Matlab, with the underlying tools coming primarily from FSL and FreeSurfer (Fig 1). It applies image processing and QC, and generates thousands of Imaging-Derived Phenotypes (IDPs). The pipeline was optimised for UKB data and has been adapted for other studies with some effort (2, 3, 4).

By 2023, 72k brain imaging datasets had been acquired and processed. 63k were usable data from the first imaging visit and 5k from the second. The goal is 100k first-visit and 60k repeat-visit scans. Fig 2 shows pairwise associations between 4k brain IDPs and 27k non-imaging variables.