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TemplateFlow: a community archive of imaging templates and atlases for improved consistency in neuroimaging

View ORCID ProfileR Ciric, View ORCID ProfileR Lorenz, View ORCID ProfileWH Thompson, View ORCID ProfileM Goncalves, View ORCID ProfileE MacNicol, View ORCID ProfileCJ Markiewicz, View ORCID ProfileYO Halchenko, View ORCID ProfileSS Ghosh, View ORCID ProfileKJ Gorgolewski, View ORCID ProfileRA Poldrack, View ORCID ProfileO Esteban
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.10.430678
R Ciric
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA
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R Lorenz
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA
2MRC CBU, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
3Department of Neurophysics, MPI, Leipzig, Germany
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WH Thompson
4Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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M Goncalves
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA
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E MacNicol
5Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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CJ Markiewicz
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA
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YO Halchenko
6Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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SS Ghosh
7McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
8Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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KJ Gorgolewski
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA
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RA Poldrack
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA
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O Esteban
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA
9Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Abstract

Neuroimaging templates and corresponding atlases play a central role in experimental workflows and are the foundation for reporting standardised results. The proliferation of templates and atlases is one relevant source of methodological variability across studies, which has been recently brought to attention as an important challenge to reproducibility in neuroscience. Unclear nomenclature, an overabundance of template variants and options, inadequate provenance tracking and maintenance, and poor concordance between atlases introduce further unreliability into reported results. We introduce TemplateFlow, a cloud-based repository of human and nonhuman imaging templates paired with a client application for programmatically accessing resources. TemplateFlow is designed to be extensible, providing a transparent pathway for researchers to contribute and vet templates and their associated atlases. Following software engineering best practices, TemplateFlow leverages technologies for unambiguous resource identification, data management, versioning and synchronisation, programmatic extensibility, and continuous integration. By equipping researchers with a robust resource for using and evaluating templates, TemplateFlow will contribute to increasing the reliability of neuroimaging results.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • Added author contributions, acknowledgments, and minor corrections. Revised references and remove duplicates.

  • https://www.templateflow.org/

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TemplateFlow: a community archive of imaging templates and atlases for improved consistency in neuroimaging
R Ciric, R Lorenz, WH Thompson, M Goncalves, E MacNicol, CJ Markiewicz, YO Halchenko, SS Ghosh, KJ Gorgolewski, RA Poldrack, O Esteban
bioRxiv 2021.02.10.430678; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.10.430678
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TemplateFlow: a community archive of imaging templates and atlases for improved consistency in neuroimaging
R Ciric, R Lorenz, WH Thompson, M Goncalves, E MacNicol, CJ Markiewicz, YO Halchenko, SS Ghosh, KJ Gorgolewski, RA Poldrack, O Esteban
bioRxiv 2021.02.10.430678; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.10.430678

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