To HCP-users, This email is a heads-up that data formats for CIFTI-2 are now final. CIFTI-2 addresses a number of limitations in the original CIFTI-1 format (see below).
For neuroimaging software developers, we encourage you to incorporate CIFTI-2 compatibility into your platform, as it has many advantages for visualization of combined surface and volume data, such as those generated by the Human Connectome Project (HCP) and used extensively in Connectome Workbench (see Glasser et al., 2013; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23668970). For neuroimagers using platforms that are not yet CIFTI-compliant: if your research would benefit from using CIFTI files (including the HCP public data release, see http://www.humanconnectome.org/data/), we encourage you to communicate this interest to the software development team for your favorite platform(s). Additional information is available as indicated here: 1) The specifics for CIFTI-2 data formats are spelled out in the "CIFTI-2_Main_FINAL_1March2014.pdf" document (http://www.nitrc.org/forum/message.php?msg_id=9513) 2) The specific changes from CIFTI-1 are described in "CIFTI-2_Appendix_FINAL_1March2014.pdf" (http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=4381&forum_id=1955) 3) Example CIFTI-2 files (cifti-2_test_data.zip) are available in the downloads section (http://www.nitrc.org/frs/?group_id=454). 4) The initial release of the CIFTI-2 XML parsing/manipulating/writing code is available on the NITRC download page, http://www.nitrc.org/frs/?group_id=454. (It also supports CIFTI-1 XML, which requires dealing with reversed dimensions in the NIfTI-2 header; CIFTI-2 does not have this problem.) It does not include code for reading or writing NIfTI-2 files. This code is released under the BSD 2-clause license. 5) A new release of Connectome Workbench that can read and write CIFTI-2 files will be available soon (target date early April; http://www.humanconnectome.org/software/get-connectome-workbench.html). Sincerely, The HCP Software Development Team _______________________________________________ HCP-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.humanconnectome.org/mailman/listinfo/hcp-users
