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 ## Pipeline example
-### Processing pipeline schematic diagram
-[![pipeline schematic](docs/journal.pone.0086576.g001.png) "Click here for the paper with detailed description of the processing pipeline"](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0086576)
 ### pipeline demo
  
  A [demo script](demo/mas_demo.sh) is provided, which contains a complete end-to-end demonstration showing how to build and run the pipeline. It first download the atlas and test image from the [mouse brain atlas](https://github.com/dancebean/mouse-brain-atlas). It then run the following steps in sequential: brain extraction => N4 Bias Field Correction => brain structural parcellation (which itself consists of 3 sub-steps: atlas-to-test image registration (using dilated mask and bias-field-corrected brain image) -> atlas label propagation -> and multi-atlas label fusion).