Hi,
using align_epi_anat.py with an input file ending with .nii.gz leads to an putput that adds "suffix.nii.gz" to the input filename.
e.g. inputfile.nii.gz.suffix.nii.gz
just a minor annoyance.
Also having a heck of a time with anatomical alignment to 1.5T epi scans with a fair amount of frontal dropout (see e.g. "Milwaukee" NITRC dataset). I'd be curious, if you guys are also working with that data set, what parameters you're using to get good epi->anat alignment.
"lpc" works very well when it works but when it fails it seems to fail catastrophically. I wonder if an option to initialize (lpc) registration with a transformation derived from e.g. "nmi" would help in that regard. Does such an option exist?
thanks,
Brad Buchsbaum