Recover subject ID from BIDS ID

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help BIDS experts,

We converted our data to BIDS format. What is the best way to see how the subjects were matched? Which subjects ID corresponds to BIDS ID?

cheers,

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Hi,

How did you convert to BIDS?

Best,
Steven

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hi Steven,

we used dcm2bids pipeline.

cheers,

4

In dcm2bids, the -p argument should contain the subject ID of the written out subject. What was the full command you used to run dcm2bids?

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hi Steven,

just waiting for my script file. It was some time ago, since then I changed jobs, so trying to find it :wink: I will let you know asap. thanks for your help A LOT.

Roma

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hi Steven,

so our function looks like this when we run it in cycle:

bids_cmd = " dcm2bids -d " + participant + ‘/*’ + " -p %03d " % (n+1) + "-o " + out_dir +
" -c /imaging/bids/config.json "

cheers,

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Is that command defined in Python? I want to make sure I am understanding this string generation correctly.

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I am just guessing here because there’s clearly some variables that are defined before this command is defined:

I am guessing participant is drawn out from a list of participants, (e.g. participant = participants[n]). Based on the -p argument, the nth participant in that list is being coded as sub-(n+1).

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yes, something like that :wink:

the output looks liek this:

sbatch --mem-per-cpu=6gb --time=01:00:00 --job-name=dcm2bids --output /imaging/bids/sub-001-dcm2bids.out dcm2bids -d /imaging/data/100.tgz/* -p 001 -o /imaging/bids/ -c /imaging/bids/config.json

the problem is how to recover correct information or fron log file? or there is another way to read it out.

thanks

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Is 100 a subject ID from your original set? If so, for this particular subject, 100 (original) = 001 (BIDS).

In the future, assuming your original IDs are deidentified, it might just be easier to just use that as your BIDS ID for lack of confusion.

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I get it if I ran it one per one, I know this: 100 = 001 (in BIDS). But I think when all analysis is done how can i find all subjects with this input output data?
Is there is a place where this information is automatically saved?
If I will rerun this convertion, will I get the same result?

any ideas?
thanks

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make sense!!! good tip for the same ID.

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Can you see how participant Is defined in your script? Again, if this is all happening in a loop, then the nth subject in that list goes to n+1 for BIDS subject ID.