What’s new

History of changes

Version 1.5.2 (8/26/25)

  • (picachooser) Gracefully handle filtering options if FSLDIR is not defined.

Version 1.5.1 (8/22/25)

  • (picachoser) Write out name of bad component file when saving.

  • (deployment) Attempt to fix pypi deployment.

  • (docs) Fixed document builds on readthedocs, and buffed up the organization.

  • (Docker) Fixed the build script.

Version 1.5.0 (8/21/25)

  • (picachooser) Fixed glm filtering.

  • (picachooser) Fixed groupmelodic processing.

  • (picachooser) Made some changes to batch processing.

  • (package) Moved to pyproject.toml.

  • (package) Fixed version detection.

  • (Docker) Made it easier to move test data.

  • (Docker) Turned on provenance and sbom in Docker builds.

  • (Docker) Rebuilt on the newest basecontainer with several security fixes.

  • Merged LOTS of dependabot changes.

Version 1.4.9.1 (12/31/24)

  • (Docker) Rebuilt on the newest basecontainer with several security fixes.

Version 1.4.9 (11/18/24)

  • (Docker) Modernized build based on a new, uv based basecontainer.

  • (Docker) Fixed a lot of deprecation warnings.

  • (PICAchooser_dispatcher) Included the newer scripts, fixed some regressions caused by updating basecontainer.

Version 1.4.8 (8/4/24)

  • (package) Updated setuptools files to a new, cleaner format, and including more URLs for packaging.

  • Merged dependabot changes.

Version 1.4.7 (6/18/24)

  • (PICAchooser) Fixed timecourse time axis display when no motion timecourses are used.

  • (PICAchooser) Added melodic_dataex mode.

  • (PICAchooser) Cleaned up filtering interface.

  • (PICAchooser) Use absolute paths internally.

  • (PICAchooser) Got filtering working.

  • (PICAchooser) Fixed TR specification.

  • (package) Made some proactive changes to avoid numpy 2.0.0 problems.

  • (package) Cleaned up dependencies for Python 3.12 compatibility.

  • (Docker) Updated to Python 3.12 basecontainer.

  • Merged LOTS of dependabot changes.

Version 1.4.6 (2/23/24)

  • (rtgrader) Added new program - rtgrader - to do quality assessment of rapidtide datasets.

  • (Docker) Updated to basecontainer 0.3.2.

  • (Docker) Added caching to build.

  • Merged of a bunch of dependabot PRs.

Version 1.4.5 (9/13/23)

  • Mass merge of a bunch of dependabot PRs.

  • (Docker) Updated to basecontainer 0.2.3.

Version 1.4.4 (6/29/23)

  • Fixed image pane resizing.

Version 1.4.3 (6/9/23)

  • Added reference file matching - if you specify a set of reference components, any IC with a spatial correlation with any reference component above a threshold is retained.

Version 1.4.2 (5/11/23)

  • (Docker) Updated to python 3.11 basecontainer.

  • (package) Modernized install procedure.

Version 1.4.1 (2/14/23)

  • Upgraded pyqtgraph calls to handle deprecations. NOTE: this only handles versions of pyqtgraph<0.13.

  • Made substantial changes to the Dockerfile to handle changes in basecontainer.

Version 1.4.0 (2/9/23)

  • Added –version and –detailedversion command line flags to PICAchooser, melodicomp, and grader.

  • Accepted several PR’s from dependabot for build scripts.

  • Updated versioneer.

  • Renamed master branch to main.

  • Adapted to the new basecontainer.

Version 1.3.1.2 (8/19/22)

  • Updated Dockerfile for a newer python distribution.

Version 1.3.1.1 (8/19/22)

  • Updated versioneer.

Version 1.3.1 (8/19/22)

  • Tweaked pyproject.ml file to hopefully fix documentation build.

Version 1.3.0 (9/8/21)

  • Reformatted with black and isort.

  • Flipped x axis to display radiological coordinates.

  • Harmonized Dockerfile and automated container building methods with rapidtide.

  • Fixed some formatting in documentation (thank you DMD!)

Version 1.2.3 (4/6/20)

  • Major documentation improvements.

  • Finally fixed picachooser.readthedocs.org.

  • Added reset component keystroke to PICAchooser and melodicomp.

Version 1.2.2 (4/5/20)

  • More fiddling to get deployment working again.

Version 1.2.1 (4/5/20)

  • Fiddled with .gitignore to try to get deployment working again.

  • Added a help line to the bottom of grader GUI window.

Version 1.2.0 (4/5/20)

  • Added a new program - melodicomp - to compare ICs between runs.

  • Added a help line to the bottom of GUI windows.

Version 1.1.4 (4/3/20)

  • Now with pypi! Just pip install picachooser, and off you go!

Version 1.1.0 (4/3/20)

  • Added groupmelodic runmode, for examining group ICAs.

  • Added the ability to select an ROI from the dataset.

  • General code cleanup, reformatting with black.

  • Updated documentation.

Version 1.0.2 (11/24/20)

  • Added line to help QT compatibility with macOS 11 (Big Sur).

Version 1.0.1 (6/30/20)

  • Just bumping the version number to generate an initial Zenodo DOI.

Version 1.0.0 (6/3/20)

  • Motion correlation parameters are now properly output to the terminal when switching components.

  • Turned down default verbosity.

Version 1.0.0rc13 (6/1/20)

  • You can now switch to viewing slices in axial, coronal, or sagittal orientation by pressing the a, c, or s key.

  • Fixed the aspect ratio and padding of the images in the display window.

Version 1.0.0rc12 (5/21/20)

  • The explained variance and total variance of the component are now displayed in the title bar of the window.

Version 1.0.0rc11 (5/15/20)

  • Properly handle the case of the timecourses being shorter than the motion plots (happens when fMRIprep discards (but doesn’t really discard) initial timepoints).

  • Window resizing works somewhat better (but it’s not perfect yet).

Version 1.0.0rc10 (5/7/20)

  • All plot linewidths are now settable from the command line.

  • Added the –scalemotiontodata option to autoscale motion plots (rather than setting the plot limits by the dashed guide lines.)

Version 1.0.0rc9 (4/27/20)

  • keepcolor, discardcolor, transmotlimits and rotmotlimits are now settable via command line arguments. This means docker users can change configuration values.

  • Increased some linewidths to make the display more readable, made the widths settable in the config file.

Version 1.0.0rc8 (4/27/20)

  • Added fixed (but configurable) “normal” limits to motion plots (thank you to Richard Dinga for the suggestion).

Version 1.0.0rc7 (4/26/20)

  • Revamped input file specification to allow for maximum flexibility

  • PICAchooser can now read motion out of fmriprep confounds files.

  • On bad component file save, print the command needed to refilter the dataset.

Version 1.0.0rc6 (4/25/20)

  • Updated the run options for docker and singularity to reflect the current interface

Version 1.0.0rc5 (4/25/20)

  • All timecourse colors are now changeable by editing the ${HOME}/.picachooser.json file (the file is created with default values if it doesn’t exist).

  • Numerous documentation fixes and updates

Version 1.0.0rc4 (4/25/20)

  • Changed help lines to match actual runmode names

  • Calculate and print correlation coefficients (and p values) between current component and all motion timecourses

Version 1.0.0rc3 (4/24/20)

  • Changed option specification

  • Added configuration file to set colors

Version 1.0.0rc2 (4/24/20)

  • Fixed docker build issues

  • Timecourse and spectrum window now show the component number

  • Resolved remaining rapidtide dependencies

  • Still having problems with readthedocs

Version 1.0.0rc1 (4/23/20)

  • Initial release