Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) - New release v7.1

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Dear neuroimaging community,

We are happy to announce the release of SCT v7.1.

The most notable changes for this release include:

  • Installation: Add support for Apptainer installations for use on HPC systems. View pull request
  • Installation: Update SCT’s virtual environment to use Python 3.10 instead of 3.9. View pull request
  • Feature: Implement “tissue bridge ratio” metrics in sct_analyze_lesion. View pull request
  • Feature: Add flag -discfile to sct_process_segmentation to allow for determining VertLevel using projected disc labels. View pull request
  • Enhancement: Update lesion_ms DeepSeg model from r20241101 to r20250626 (ESMRMB 2025). View pull request
  • Enhancement: Use centerline of -vertfile in sct_extract_metric for more accurate mapping of VertLevel to z slices. View pull request
  • Bug: Prevent repeated slices during the straightening step of template registration by correctly zeroing out duplicate slices in the warping field. View pull request
  • Bug: Prevent “phantom copy” of registered image by masking output of sct_apply_transfo when applying -initwarp during multimodal registration. View pull request
  • Documentation: Update and reorganize Docker installation instructions. View pull request

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