Recent Update Log

May 2026

• Added U-Net based segmentation in DSI Studio for structural MRI.
• Added support for compact segmentation models for T1w/T2w images, allowing users to run brain MRI segmentation directly in DSI Studio without installing Python, PyTorch, or external segmentation packages.
• Improved the segmentation workflow so that model selection, inference, and output label generation can be handled within the DSI Studio interface.

April 2026

• Major code revision to improve computational efficiency.
• Added U-Net segmentation models for T1w/T2w structural images.
• Revised atlas and template storage locations.

March 2026

• Revised the automatic fiber tracking function by reducing the default TIP iteration count and adding debugging features.
• Added a comprehensive set of tract-to-region connectome quantification outputs.

Issues

Please check whether your version is affected by the following issues and update accordingly.

• [versions >= 02/25/2026 <= 06/03/2026] Major issue: Multithread racing causing crash, and GPU-based nonlinear registration did not run correctly due to an error introduced during code revision.
• [versions >= 11/10/2025 <= 02/17/2026] Major issue: NIfTI images displayed in the tracking window may appear flipped due to a bug in reading the NIfTI header.
• [versions >= 08/08/2025 <= 08/11/2025] A bug affected automatic fiber tracking and QSDR reconstruction, causing them to fail.
• [versions >= 06/04/2025 <= 06/20/2025] A bug may cause crashes when making SRC files isotropic. Another bug may create corrupted .sz and .fz files when saving. Any affected .sz and .fz files should be removed.
• [versions >= 04/15/2025 < 05/06/2025] Converting DICOM files to NIfTI may create left-right mirrored T1w images.
• [versions >= 02/01/2025 <= 03/10/2025] Autotrack may produce incorrect results due to a normalization error.
• [versions < 05/01/2025] Bug fixes include: (1) medial lemniscus tracts were incorrectly treated as MNI-space tracts, (2) a multithreading error may cause incorrect tract statistics in the connectometry database, and (3) a bug may cause alignment problems between .tck files and structural images.

Past Updates

2025

• Added issue checking, the multi-metric database .dz format, QA-ISO ratio (QIR), command-line T1w tissue segmentation, and support for NDA restricted datasets.
• Improved differential tractography, connectivity matrix computation, image registration, mask generation, multithreading efficiency, FIB averaging, bias field correction, and phase-distortion correction using T2w images.
• Updated correlational tractography p-value estimation, the Julich Brain atlas, built-in neonate template, and ICBM152 T1w/T2w templates.
• Added command history, empty-tract save/load support, expanded tract-to-region metrics, and restored --action=vis.

2023-2024

• Introduced the Hou generation of DSI Studio with new .fz/.sz formats, the DSI Studio Data Hub, updated registration tools, and a revised GUI.
• Updated tractography atlas organization and automated fiber tracking support for multiple tractography atlases.

2020-2022

• Major revision of QA calculation; nQA replaced QA.