AFQ with HCP data#

This example demonstrates how to use the AFQ API to analyze HCP data. For this example to run properly, you will need to gain access to the HCP data. This can be done by following this instructions on the webpage here. We will use the Cloudknot library to run our AFQ analysis in the AWS Batch service (see also this example). In the following we will use Cloudknot to run multiple configurations of pyAFQ on the HCP dataset. Specifically, here we will run pyAFQ with different tractography seeding strategies.

Import cloudknot and set the correct region. The HCP data is stored in us-east-1, so it’s best to analyze it there.

import configparser
import itertools
import cloudknot as ck
import os.path as op

ck.set_region('us-east-1')

Define a function to run. This function allows us to pass in the subject ID for the subjects we would like to analyze , as well as strategies for seeding tractography (different masks and/or different numbers of seeds per voxel).

def afq_process_subject(subject, seed_mask, n_seeds,
                        aws_access_key, aws_secret_key):
    # define a function that each job will run
    # In this case, each process does a single subject
    import logging
    import s3fs
    # all imports must be at the top of the function
    # cloudknot installs the appropriate packages from pip
    from AFQ.data.fetch import fetch_hcp
    from AFQ.api.group import GroupAFQ
    import AFQ.definitions.image as afm

    # set logging level to your choice
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

    # Download the given subject to the AWS Batch machine from s3
    _, hcp_bids = fetch_hcp(
        [subject],
        profile_name=False,
        study="HCP_1200",
        aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key,
        aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret_key)

    # We make a new seed mask for each process based off of the
    # seed_mask argument, which is a string.
    # This is to avoid any complications with pickling the masks.
    if seed_mask == "roi":
        seed_mask_obj = afm.RoiImage()
    elif seed_mask == "fa":
        seed_mask_obj = afm.ScalarImage("dti_fa")
    else:
        seed_mask_obj = afm.FullImage()

    # Determined if n_seeds is per voxel or not
    if n_seeds > 3:
        random_seeds = True
    else:
        random_seeds = False

    # set the tracking_params based off our inputs
    tracking_params = {
        "seed_mask": seed_mask_obj,
        "n_seeds": n_seeds,
        "random_seeds": random_seeds}

    # use segmentation file from HCP to get a brain mask,
    # where everything not labelled 0 is considered a part of the brain
    brain_mask_definition = afm.LabelledImageFile(
        suffix='seg', filters={'scope': 'dmriprep'},
        exclusive_labels=[0])

    # define the api GroupAFQ object
    myafq = GroupAFQ(
        hcp_bids,
        brain_mask_definition=brain_mask_definition,
        tracking_params=tracking_params)

    # export_all runs the entire pipeline and creates many useful derivates
    myafq.export_all()

    # upload the results to some location on s3
    myafq.upload_to_s3(
        s3fs.S3FileSystem(),
        (f"my_study_bucket/my_study_prefix_{seed_mask}_{n_seeds}"
         f"/derivatives/afq"))

In this example, we will process the data from the following subjects

subjects = ["103818", "105923", "111312"]

We will test combinations of different conditions: subjects, seed masks, and number of seeds

seed_mask = ["fa", "roi"]
n_seeds = [1, 2, 1000000, 2000000]

The following function creates all the combinations of the above lists, such that every subject is run with every mask and every number of seeds.

args = list(itertools.product(subjects, seed_mask, n_seeds))

We assume that the credentials for HCP usage are stored in the home directory in a ~/.aws/credentials file. This is where these credentials are stored if the AWS CLI is used to configure the profile. We use the standard lib configparser library to get the relevant hcp keys from there.

CP = configparser.ConfigParser()
CP.read_file(open(op.join(op.expanduser('~'), '.aws', 'credentials')))
CP.sections()
aws_access_key = CP.get('hcp', 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
aws_secret_key = CP.get('hcp', 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')

The following function will attach your AWS keys to each list in a list of lists We use this with each list being a list of arguments, and we append the AWS keys to each list of arguments, so that we can pass them into the function to be used on AWS Batch to download the data into the AWS Batch machines.

def attach_keys(list_of_arg_lists):
    new_list_of_arg_lists = []
    for args in list_of_arg_lists:
        arg_ls = list(args)
        arg_ls.extend([aws_access_key, aws_secret_key])
        new_list_of_arg_lists.append(arg_ls)
    return new_list_of_arg_lists

This calls the function to attach the access keys to the argument list

args = attach_keys(args)

Define the Knot() object to run your jobs on. See this example for more details about the arguments to the object.

knot = ck.Knot(
    name='afq-hcp-tractography-201110-0',
    func=afq_process_subject,
    base_image='python:3.8',
    image_github_installs="https://github.com/yeatmanlab/pyAFQ.git",
    pars_policies=('AmazonS3FullAccess',),
    bid_percentage=100)

This launches a process for each combination. Because starmap is True, each list in args will be unfolded and passed into afq_process_subject as arguments.

result_futures = knot.map(args, starmap=True)

The following function can be called repeatedly in a jupyter notebook to view the progress of jobs:

knot.view_jobs()

You can also view the status of a specific job:

knot.jobs[0].status

When all jobs are finished, remember to clobber the knot to destroy all the resources that were created in AWS.

result_futures.result()  # waits for futures to resolve, not needed in notebook
knot.clobber(clobber_pars=True, clobber_repo=True, clobber_image=True)

We continue processing to create another knot which takes the resulting profiles of each combination and combines them all into one csv file

def afq_combine_profiles(seed_mask, n_seeds):
    from AFQ.api import download_and_combine_afq_profiles
    download_and_combine_afq_profiles(
        "my_study_bucket", f"my_study_prefix_{seed_mask}_{n_seeds}")


knot2 = ck.Knot(
    name='afq_combine_subjects-201110-0',
    func=afq_combine_profiles,
    base_image='python:3.8',
    image_github_installs="https://github.com/yeatmanlab/pyAFQ.git",
    pars_policies=('AmazonS3FullAccess',),
    bid_percentage=100)

the arguments to this call to map() are all the different configurations of pyAFQ that we ran

seed_mask = ["fa", "roi"]
n_seeds = [1, 2, 1000000, 2000000]
args = list(itertools.product(seed_mask, n_seeds))

result_futures2 = knot2.map(args, starmap=True)
result_futures2.result()
knot2.clobber(clobber_pars=True, clobber_repo=True, clobber_image=True)

Estimated memory usage: 0 MB

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