[Neuroimaging] Announcing Quickshear v1.0

[Christopher Markiewicz]

Hi all,

Quickshear[0] is a defacing utility that calculates the convex-hull of a
skull-stripped brain to split the volume into brain and face regions, and
then zeros out the face region of an anatomical image. It comes out of a
computer security lab that had a brief flurry of activity in neuroimaging
privacy a few years back.

I contacted the authors a couple weeks ago to try it out, and they kindly
agreed to let me publish it. As it is a standalone program, rather than
immediately try to include it in existing projects, I've made some very
minor modifications and released their code as v1.0 to stand as a reference
implementation.

Beyond this reference implementation, though, I'm not committed to the idea
that it must be a separate project; while I'm happy to maintain it in this
form, if a larger existing project would like to include it, that would
only lower the barrier to use.

Best,
Chris Markiewicz

[0]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262319696_Quickshear_defacing_for_neuroimages
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