Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) - New release v5.6

Dear neuroimaging community,

We are happy to announce the release of SCT v5.6. :tada:

:bell: Notice for Windows users :bell:

Starting from version 5.6, WSL and Docker are no longer required to install SCT on Windows! :tada:
Please visit the updated Windows installation page of SCT’s documentation to try out this new installation method.

Other notable changes include:

  • sct_deepseg: Added model for T2w lumbar SC segmentation.
  • sct_deepseg: Added new option -list-tasks-long to print in-depth descriptions of deepseg tasks.
  • sct_label_vertebrae: Updated the default label cleaning behavior.
  • Added support for ITK-Snap + multiple viewers to display_viewer_syntax.
  • BUGFIX: sct_analyze_lesion: Fixed computation of estimated lesion length and diameter.
  • BUGFIX: Set a more permissive threshold for reading the qform.

For the full list of changes included in this release, click here.

For installation instructions, click here.

If you have any questions or feature requests, please post in the SCT forum.

Happy processing!

The Spinal Cord Toolbox Team