AFNI HISTORY

level 2 and higher

The levels of importance go from 1 to 5, with meanings:
       1 - users would not care
       2 - of little importance, though some users might care
       3 - fairly important
       4 - a big change or new program
       5 - IMPORTANT: we expect users to know


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---- log of AFNI updates (most recent first) ---- 12 Mar 2009, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) warn user about masking in orig space - if despiking and no regression mask, apply -nomask - added 'MASKING NOTE', to suggest no regresion mask until group space 12 Mar 2009, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -regress_reml_exec and -regress_3dD_stop One can execute 3dREMLfit and/or 3dDeconvolve. Error blur is from each.
11 Mar 2009, RW Cox, 3dANOVA, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Add -mask option to 3dANOVA, 3dANOVA2, 3dANOVA3
10 Mar 2009, DR Glen, 3dLocalstat, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Sum option Sum option (for functional weighting of interiorosity measure)
06 Mar 2009, RW Cox, 3dDeconvolve, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Add 'WAV' function (from waver) to -stim_times repertoire. 06 Mar 2009, RC Reynolds, 3dDeconvolve, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) if mri_automask_image() input is not really 3D, only apply clip 3dD uses automask for misfit warning, let this apply to niml.dset
05 Mar 2009, RC Reynolds, afni, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) free vox_warp via KILL_list rather than directly when deleting dataset Fixes afni crash: set acpc markers -> acpc view -> orig view -> new markers -> acpc view -> death ...
04 Mar 2009, RC Reynolds, X-general, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) added openmotif build tree, updated @build.Xlib and README under X
03 Mar 2009, RC Reynolds, @build.Xlib, level 2 (MINOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) this is a build script for the local X packages
02 Mar 2009, RW Cox, zfun, level 2 (MINOR), type 0 (GENERAL) add compression functions (using zlib) to libmri in zfun.c
27 Feb 2009, RC Reynolds, X-general, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) added lesstif and libXt trees to cvs
11 Feb 2009, RW Cox, 3dvolreg, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) replace DMAT_svdrot_old with DMAT_svdrot_newer Old function fails sometimes, making the output rotation be garbage and producing junk image results; the newer one seems more robust.
09 Feb 2009, RW Cox, imseq.c, level 2 (MINOR), type 3 (NEW_ENV) Add AFNI_ANIM_DUP environment variable. Allows user to duplicate images when writting an animation (AGIF or MPEG) file. A simple and stoopid way to slow down an MPEG. 09 Feb 2009, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) random updates, plus those for Fedora 10
04 Feb 2009, RC Reynolds, vol2surf, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) fixed norm reversal application and norm dir check computation Thanks to Xiaopeng Zong for finding these problems.
02 Feb 2009, ZS Saad, SurfDist, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) SurfDist now outputs distances from one node to a set of other nodes 02 Feb 2009, ZS Saad, DriveSuma, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Added load_col option to DriveSuma 02 Feb 2009, RW Cox, parser (calc programs), level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Add hrfbk4 and hrfbk5(t,T) functions to parser To imitate the BLOCK4 and BLOCK5 response functions in 3dDeconvolve.
13 Jan 2009, ZS Saad, afni-matlab, level 2 (MINOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Added GS_orth_1D.m to perform Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization 13 Jan 2009, ZS Saad, afni-general, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) AFNI should now be Lesstif compliant Made numerous changes with Rick Reynolds. The biggest modification regards buttons inside popup menus. Those buttons are no longer inside rowcolumn widgets and had to be directly managed by afni.
05 Jan 2009, ZS Saad, MapIcosahedron, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Program no longer confined to FreeSurfer surfaces The program now allows the user to specify any morph sphere, not just sphere.reg or sphere. This required rewriting much of of the program's main section but the algorithm for the mapping remains unchanged.
31 Dec 2008, RC Reynolds, afni, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) fix for lesstif crash on 'where am i', along with ziad
30 Dec 2008, RW Cox, 3dTfitter, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) For FALTUNG, use sparse matrix operations for pure least squares. Deconvolution + penalty matrix is sparse. Uses the 'rcmat' functions originally developed for 3dREMLfit. Speeds things up a lot when the time series is long.
22 Dec 2008, G Chen, 3dICC.R, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) IntraClass Correlation (ICC) This is an R program that calculates ICC on 3D volume data based on a two- or three-way random-effects ANOVA scheme. See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/ICC
16 Dec 2008, G Chen, 3dGC.R, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Bivariate Granger causality analysis This is an R program that runs Granger causality analysis with a seed region versus the rest of the brain. See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/3dGC
13 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, afni-matlab, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) RetroTS creates regressors for cardiac, respiratory, and RVT filtering RetroTS.m and accompanying functions create slice-based regressors for regressing out the effects of cardiac, respiratory, and RVT effects from FMRI time series. The regressors generated are meant to be used with 3dREMLfit.
11 Dec 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) Fixed -slibase bug. Oopsie. -slibase didn't work properly with more than 1 added column per slice. Also, per the request of ZSS, you can now input more than 1 column set per image file, in repetitive slice order: 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 if there are 4 slices in the dataset, for example.
10 Dec 2008, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added new options for extra stimuli, RONI and an external volreg base - allow NIfTI datasets as input (but process as AFNI) - added -regress_extra_stim_files and -regress_extra_stim_labels - added -regress_RONI and -volreg_base_dset (for Jill Weisberg)
09 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, suma, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) Fixed (potential) SUMA crash when Draw ROI interface is first opened 09 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, @Align_Centers, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Added -cm option to allow centering based on the center of mass 09 Dec 2008, RW Cox, 3dDeconvolve, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Added 'dmBLOCK' to the '-stim_times_IM' repertoire.
05 Dec 2008, DR Glen, to3d, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Siemens DICOM handling added -oblique_origin and -reverse_list to help handle Siemens DICOM data. oblique_origin option added to to3d and 3drefit Rick added flipped slice handling to oblique mosaic handling
04 Dec 2008, RW Cox, 3dDeconvolve, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Extend -stim_times_AM2 option to allow multiple amplitudes 04 Dec 2008, RW Cox, 1dMarry, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Allow multiple marriages, to go with 3dDeconvolve changes 04 Dec 2008, RC Reynolds, Makefile.INCLUDE, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) added balloon target for M Belmonte Also modified Makefile.linux_xorg7_64 and macosx_10.4_G5/Intel and 5_Int*.
02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, SpharmReco, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Reconstructs data from spherical harmonics decomposition. See SpharmDeco -help and the demo script @Spharm.examples for details. 02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, SpharmDeco, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Performs spherical harmonics decomposition. This program performs spherical harmonics decomposition for surfaces' geometry and/or surface-based data See SpharmReco -help and the demo script @Spharm.examples for details. 02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, @Spharm.examples, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) A script to demonstrate the usage of SpharmDeco and SpharmReco 02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, @NoisySkullStrip, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) A script to improve skull stripping in noisy of heavily shaded data
01 Dec 2008, RC Reynolds, timing_tool.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) a tool for manipulating and evaluating stimulus timing files This is useful for getting statistics on rest timing.
24 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, Dimon, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added options -infile_list and -show_sorted_list The -show_sorted_list option will print a list of files by run/index.
21 Nov 2008, ZS Saad, @fast_roi, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Creates Atlas-based ROIs in original space for real-time experiments 21 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added Options menu, Show Cosmat and GUI help This is the initial release version, 1.0. 21 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -test_libs option 21 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, python_module_test.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) removed 'R' from basic test list, and applied verb 2 to base usage
20 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, plug_realtime, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) incorportated real-time volume writing from V. Roopchansingh of MCW
18 Nov 2008, RW Cox, 3dANOVA programs, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Add option to output float-valued datasets. Set the AFNI_FLOATIZE environment variable to YES, and the output of 3dANOVA, 3dANOVA2, and 3dANOVA3 will be stored in float format instead of in scaled short format. [Per the request of Paul Hamilton] 18 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -test, -show_col_types, -show_cosmat, -show_fit_ts, -cormat_cutoff also added the main help
13 Nov 2008, ZS Saad, suma, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Added a NIDO sphere as Displayable Object See suma -help_nido for details. 13 Nov 2008, ZS Saad, @SUMA_AlignToExperiment, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Added -al option to use 3dAllineate -lpa
07 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) more updates: - scipy is only tested for when necessary - compute norms locally if no scipy - solve_against_1D, linear_combo: return error string instead of code - added -chrono option, to make all options chronological (so options are essentially scriptable) 07 Nov 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) tlrc view handling fixed view name of tlrc output with tlrc_master set to SOURCE
06 Nov 2008, RW Cox, 3dDeconvolve, level 2 (MINOR), type 0 (GENERAL) Add 'scale to shorts misfit' warning messages. Also added to 3dcalc and some other programs. 06 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) pre-release updates: - added many initial command-line options - added plot_xmat_as_one toggle button - added computation of cosine matrix and cosmat_warnings - separated GUI code into new file gui_xmat.py 06 Nov 2008, RC Reynolds, python_module_test.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added option -full_test 06 Nov 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) Oblique children handling fixed combination of oblique with child epis for epi2anat output
04 Nov 2008, RW Cox, 3dNLfim, level 2 (MINOR), type 0 (GENERAL) Added model_expr2.c Model that uses an arbitrary 3dcalc-like expression with 2 free parameters (any letters but 't', which is used for the time axis). 04 Nov 2008, RW Cox, 3dBlurToFWHM, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) skip all zero sub-bricks in the blurmaster - for Tomski Rosski
03 Nov 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Several changes Finished -gltsym, -Rglt, and -Oglt options = add GLTs on the 3dREMLfit command line and output those exclusively to new files. Modified -addbase and -slibase to do censoring if input 1D files are the same length as the uncensored matrix. Also fixed bugs in -ABfile. Oopsie.
31 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, make_random_timing.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -show_timing_stats option Also, made a small change affecting timing (old results will not match). 31 Oct 2008, DR Glen, 3drefit, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Time axis attributes Added support in 3drefit for applying time axis attributes
30 Oct 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) AddEdge with epi2anat fixed AddEdge option for epi2anat output
29 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) if the X-matrix has a constant regressor, do not de-mean it In such a case, the cormat would not exactly be a correlation matrix. 29 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, python_module_test.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) program to test python module imports (interface to module_test_lib.py)
28 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, module_test_lib.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) library to test python module imports One might want to apply this module at the top of any python file.
27 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, make_random_timing.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -offset option 27 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, make_random_timing.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) actually applied -min_rest, sorry... 27 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -regress_motion_file option
24 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) program to inspect a .xmat.1D X-matrix, possibly against a time series This is a Graphical tool for plotting a design matrix, reviewing condition numbers or the correlation matrix, and fitting to a 1D time series.
23 Oct 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Added -rout option, by popular 'demand' 23 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, Makefile.INCLUDE, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) removed reference to cdflib, for 'make afni_src.tgz'
20 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, afni_util.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added write_text_to_file function 20 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, afni_driver.c, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added 'GETENV' to the list of DRIVE_AFNI commands
15 Oct 2008, RW Cox, fdrval, level 2 (MINOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Compute FDR value on command line, from dataset header 15 Oct 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) Fixed errts (etc) outputs: censored values not set to zero! 15 Oct 2008, DR Glen, afni plugouts, @AddEdge, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) quiet communications @AddEdge silences communications as plugout
14 Oct 2008, RW Cox, 3dAllineate, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) If source=scaled shorts, then output will be scaled as well. 14 Oct 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) minor updates AddEdge option enhanced and help updated 14 Oct 2008, DR Glen, @AddEdge, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Help and options More user options, improved help, removed temporary files
09 Oct 2008, G Chen, 1dGC.R, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Multivariate Granger causality analysis This is an R program that runs Granger causality analysis among a few pre-select regions.See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/1dGC
06 Oct 2008, DR Glen, 3drefit, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) -atrfloat and -atrint options Allows addition and modification of dataset attributes including modifying IJK_TO_DICOM_REAL. Not all attributes can be modified if fairly basic to dataset.
03 Oct 2008, ZS Saad, suma, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) SUMA accepts text, images, and textures as Displayable Objects See SUMA's interactive help for ctrl+alt+s for more information on Displayable Objects (DOs). The new DOs are in a simple NIML format. It is simplest to look at the script @DO.examples for illustrations of the various forms of DOs that SUMA supports. Sample NIML DOs (called NIDOs) are now provided with the distribution They are called demo.*.niml.do. 03 Oct 2008, ZS Saad, DriveSuma, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) -viewer_position/_width/_height/_size to control window placement See DriveSuma -help for details. 03 Oct 2008, ZS Saad, @DO.examples, level 2 (MINOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) A script that demonstrates the use of Displayable Objects See SUMA's interactive help for ctrl+alt+s for more information on Displayable Objects (DOs).
30 Sep 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -gltsym option Makes it easy for the user to add GLTs without using 3dDeconvolve.
29 Sep 2008, RC Reynolds, 3dmatmult, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) program to multiply AFNI datasets slice-by-slice as matrices
26 Sep 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) -child_anat option Convenience option to align follower anat datasets to epi
25 Sep 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -usetemp option Saves REML setup matrices for various cases to tmp disk files. Is necessary for -slibase and -Grid 5 combined, if anyone ever actually wants to run such a case.
24 Sep 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) -addbase and -slibase options to add baseline columns to matrix In particular, -slibase is intended for per-slice modeling of physiological noise effects. Sucks up a lot of memory and CPU time.
23 Sep 2008, RW Cox, afni, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) save last jumpto_xyz string, etc. 23 Sep 2008, RC Reynolds, gen_epi_review.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) in script, check for existence of given datasets 23 Sep 2008, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -remove_preproc_files option (akin to -move_preproc_files)
19 Sep 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) -giant_move option For data that are very far apart Fixed bug using long path names
18 Sep 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) More options Intermediate file saved optionally now, partial_axial,sagittal,coronal options Edge-based method, nocmass default, resample step optional, Added options to support searching for smaller structures, 3dWarpDrive can be used optionally as volume registration program prep_off option to turn off several preprocessing steps AddEdge option uses simplified names in output in new directory
17 Sep 2008, RC Reynolds, make_stim_times.py, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -labels option, for including labels in filenames
16 Sep 2008, ZS Saad, SurfDist, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) -node_path_do outputs the shortest path between two nodes The shortest path(s) are stored as a SUMA Displayable Object which can be loaded into SUMA with ctrl+alt+s or using DriveSuma. 16 Sep 2008, ZS Saad, DriveSuma, level 2 (MINOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) -load_do sends SUMA Displayable Objects to be rendered See SUMA's interactive help for ctrl+alt+s for more information on Displayable Objects. 16 Sep 2008, RC Reynolds, 3drefit, level 2 (MINOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) allow attribute editing of NIfTI datasets
15 Sep 2008, RW Cox, Draw Dataset plugin, level 2 (MINOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Keystrokes F3 and F3 now decrement/increment drawing value in plugin

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