Precon_all: A species-agnostic automated pipeline for non-human cortical surface reconstruction

precon_all is an open-source, species-agnostic cortical surface reconstruction pipeline that generalizes neocortical surface outputs to multiple non-human species with FreeSurfer and Connectome Workbench compatibility.

• Why it matters: Species-specific atlases and tissue priors limit surface reconstruction where those resources are missing, constraining comparative neuroimaging across diverse animals and imaging setups.
• What they did: The pipeline uses a modular design mirroring FreeSurfer’s recon-all, requiring only T1-like contrast plus five user-defined masks, and supports both in-vivo and post-mortem data.
• The result: It has been used across primates, carnivores, and ungulates from multiple sites, enabling automated high-throughput reconstruction and template-based common spaces for group morphometry in new species.

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