A cleaned display without a processing record

A technologist prepares an attractive summary figure after excluding channels, removing components and changing filter settings. The only raw file is about to be overwritten by the cleaned output because storage is limited. Another reviewer notices that the displayed laterality labels differ from the original acquisition log. The result has not yet been used clinically. The team must protect the original evidence, resolve the labeling discrepancy and preserve a reproducible account of the changes. A figure that looks clear can still mislead if its identity, geometry or transformations are wrong. The appropriate quality process should establish what happened and whether any previous derived output needs correction before a responsible clinician interprets the study.