Need help understanding columns in merged.tsv from clinica tsvtools

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Muhammad Orhan

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May 8, 2025, 6:43:10 AMMay 8
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Hello Clinica team,
I am using clinica 0.9.4 and used `clinica tsvtools merge` to combine several TSV files, but I'm unsure about the meaning/description of several columns in the resulting `merged.tsv`.
Could anyone clarify where (if yes) I can find documentation on the variables in tsv files generated using clinica?

Bit irrelevant, but while I’m here… might anyone help me with this.

Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Muhammad

Alice Joubert

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May 12, 2025, 9:14:46 AMMay 12
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Hello Muhammad,

Can you indicate what kind of TSV file you merged and if these were originally generated by clinica ?

Best,

Alice

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Muhammad Orhan

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May 12, 2025, 9:20:12 AMMay 12
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Dear Alice,
Thanks for your reply.
I am asking about the headers' information of the merged tsv file obtained using https://aramislab.paris.inria.fr/clinica/docs/public/dev/IOTools/merge_tsv/
clinica iotools merge-tsv [OPTIONS] BIDS_DIRECTORY OUTPUT_TSV -caps CAPS_DIR
Thanks.

Alice Joubert

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May 12, 2025, 10:17:42 AMMay 12
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Do you also remember how the BIDS and CAPS were generated ? For example, for the BIDS if you used a converter and for the CAPS (if you added one) which pipeline you used ?

Alice

Muhammad Orhan

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May 12, 2025, 10:21:31 AMMay 12
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Yes, 
for BIDS, only Converter. 
And for CAPS, I ran:
  • T1 and PET Linear
  •  T1 and PET volume.
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Alice Joubert

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May 13, 2025, 10:03:25 AMMay 13
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The information from the BIDS are the ones from the participants.tsv, sessions.tsv and scans.tsv. Depending on the converter you used, you will find information about the metadata here if it was ADNI or here in any other case. 

If there are any other additional columns it would come from the pipeline outputs and you might find corresponding information in the pipeline description in the documentation.

Don't hesitate if you have any interrogation about a specific metadata.

Hope this helps,

Alice

Muhammad Orhan

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May 14, 2025, 5:16:48 AMMay 14
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Dear Alice,
Thank you so much, That's exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks & Best,
Muhammad


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