BIDS

The BIDS data structure refers to a method of organizing and naming nifti and associated JSON files for each MRI scan. Organizing data according to the BIDS framework opens up access to various software applications that only act on BIDS compliant datasets, such as fmriprep, mriqc, and qsiprep. Additionally, matching structures across datasets makes navigation, exploration, and sharing of datasets much easier. A short introduction to BIDS along with examples of BIDS compliant file structures can be found in these docs. Read more about the BIDS framework at https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/.

Conversion from DICOM to BIDS

While writing custom code to convert from DICOM files to the BIDS framework is possible, tools have been to make this more automatic and reproducible across datasets. This documentation provides information and examples on one of those resources, HeuDiConv.