https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/mri/ Recent content in Mri on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-12-afni-vs-mrtrix3-vs-nipype-neuroimaging-pipelines/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-12-afni-vs-mrtrix3-vs-nipype-neuroimaging-pipelines/ <h2 id="a-single-study-terabytes-of-data-and-three-grown-up-toolkits">A Single Study, Terabytes of Data, and Three Grown-Up Toolkits</h2> <p>One diffusion MRI dataset from a moderate cohort easily reaches several hundred gigabytes before any processing begins. Add functional runs, anatomical scans, and longitudinal follow-ups and you are managing petabytes. The bottleneck stopped being the scanner years ago — it is now the analysis pipeline, and the difference between a defensible result and an unpublishable one is often which toolkit produced it and whether a reviewer can rerun it.</p>