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http://www.wholebraincatalog.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 26, 2016. An open source, downloadable, 3d atlas of the mouse brain and its cellular constituents that allows multi-scale data to be visualized in a seamless way, similar to Google earth. Data within the Catalog is marked up with annotations and can link out to additional data sources via a semantic framework. This next generation open environment has been developed to connect members of the neuroscience community to facilitate solutions for today's intractable challenges in brain research through cooperation and crowd sourcing. The client-server platform provides rich 3-D views for researchers to zoom in, out, and around structures deep in a multi-scale spatial framework of the mouse brain. An open-source, 3-D graphics engine used in graphics-intensive computer gaming generates high-resolution visualizations that bring data to life through biological simulations and animations. Within the Catalog, researchers can view and contribute a wide range of data including: * 3D meshes of subcellular scenes or brain region territories * Large 2D image datasets from both electron and light level microscopy * NeuroML and Neurolucida neuronal reconstructions * Protein Database molecular structures Users of the Whole Brain Catalog can: * Fit data of any scale into the international standard atlas coordinate system for spatial brain mapping, the Waxholm Space. * View brain slices, neurons and their animation, neuropil reconstructions, and molecules in appropriate locations * View data up close and at a high resolution * View their own data in the Whole Brain Catalog environment * View data within a semantic environment supported by vocabularies from the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) at http://www.neuinfo.org. * Contribute code and connect personal tools to the environment * Make new connections with related research and researchers 5 Easy Ways to Explore: * Explore the datasets across multiple scales. * View data closely at high resolution. * Observe accurately simulated neurons. * Readily search for content. * Contribute your own research.

Proper citation: Whole Brain Catalog (RRID:SCR_007011) Copy   

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http://mcx.sourceforge.net/

A Monte Carlo simulation software for photon migration in 3D turbid media. It uses Graphics Processing Units (GPU) based massively parallel computing techniques and is extremely fast compared to the traditional single-threaded CPU-based simulations. Using an nVidia 8800GT graphics card (14MP/114Cores), the acceleration is about 300x~400x compared to a single core of Xeon 5120 CPU; this ratio can be as high as 700x with a GTX 280 GPU and 1400x with a GTX 470.

Proper citation: Monte Carlo eXtreme (RRID:SCR_007001) Copy   

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http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/downloads/manual_align_rts2000.shtm

Software program to adjust the alignment of two adjacent images. Allows to correct for any misalignment that may occur during auto-alignment step. Serves as a bootstrap to get the images in approximately the right place.

Proper citation: Manual Align RTS2000 (RRID:SCR_007107) Copy   

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http://www.birncommunity.org/collaborators/function-birn/

The FBIRN Federated Informatics Research Environment (FIRE) includes tools and methods for multi-site functional neuroimaging. This includes resources for data collection, storage, sharing and management, tracking, and analysis of large fMRI datasets. fBIRN is a national initiative to advance biomedical research through data sharing and online collaboration. BIRN provides data-sharing infrastructure, software tools, strategies and advisory services - all from a single source.

Proper citation: Function BIRN (RRID:SCR_007291) Copy   

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http://www.brainvisa.info/

BrainVISA is a modular an customizable software platform built to host heterogeneous tools dedicated to neuroimaging research. Many toolboxes have already been developed for BrainVISA (T1 MRI, sulcal identification and morphometry, cortical surface analysis, diffusion imaging and tractography, fMRI, nuclear imaging, EEG and MEG, TMS, histology and autoradiography, etc.). Anatomist is a software for interactive visualization of multimodal data and for manipulation of structured 3D objects. It allows to build scenes that merge or combine images, meshes, regions of interest, fibers, textures, color palettes, referential changes, etc. A user can interact in 3D and in real time with the objects of an Anatomist scene: change point of view, select objects, add/suppress objects, change colors, draw regions of interests, do manual registration, etc. BrainVISA main features are: * Harmonization of communications between different software. For instance, BrainVISA toolboxes are using home-made software but also third-party software such as FreeSurfer, FSL, SPM, nipy, R-project, Matlab, etc. * Ontology-based data organization allowing database sharing and automation of mass of data analysis. * Fusion and interactive visualization of multimodal data (using Anatomist software). * Automatic generation of graphical user interfaces. * Workflow monitoring and data quality checking. * Full customization possible. * Runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. * Programming Language: C++, Python * Supported Data Format: ANALYZE, DICOM, GIfTI, MINC, NIfTI-1, Other Format

Proper citation: BrainVISA / Anatomist (RRID:SCR_007354) Copy   

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http://fmri.wfubmc.edu/software/PickAtlas

A software toolbox that provides a method for generating Region of Interest (ROI) masks based on the Talairach Daemon database. The atlases include Brodmann area, Lobar, Hemisphere, Anatomic Label (gyral anatomy), and Tissue type. The atlases have been extended to the vertex in MNI space, and corrected for the precentral gyrus anomaly. Additional atlases (including non-human atlases) can be added without difficulty., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: WFU PickAtlas (RRID:SCR_007378) Copy   

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http://mipav.cit.nih.gov

A Java-based application that enables quantitative analysis and visualization of medical images of numerous modalities such as DTI, PET, MRI, CT, or microscopy. Using MIPAV's standard user-interface and analysis tools, researchers at remote sites (via the internet) can easily share research data and analyses, thereby enhancing their ability to research, diagnose, monitor, and treat medical disorders. MIPAV can be run on any Java-enabled platform such as Windows, UNIX, or Macintosh OS X. Functionality includes segmentation, inter- and intra multi-modality registration, surface rendering, volume rendering and reading and writing a large number of biomedical file formats including: DICOM 3.0, Analyze, NIFTI, SPM, MINC, Phillips, GE, Zeiss, Biorad, jpeg, png, tiff, mrc, fits, interfile, and many more.

Proper citation: MIPAV: Medical Image Processing and Visualization (RRID:SCR_007371) Copy   

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http://rtimage.sourceforge.net/

Software application to visualize, segment, and quantify three-dimensional images. Multiple datasets may be loaded, displayed, fused, processed, and quantitatively analyzed simultaneously. Data may be imported from any DICOM-compatible three dimensional imaging modality. Regions-of-interest may be defined using a number of manual, semi-automatic, and automated tools to segment three-dimensional pixel volumes. They may also be imported from and exported to DICOM structure sets. This software has been applied to preclinical and clinical computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and optical imaging data.

Proper citation: RT Image (RRID:SCR_002535) Copy   

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http://www.jeiglesias.com

An automatic whole-brain extraction tool for T1-weighted MRI data (commonly known as skull stripping). Whole-brain segmentation is often the first component in neuroimage pipelines and therefore, its robustness is critical for the overall performance of the system. Many methods have been proposed in the literature, but they often: * work well on certain datasets but fail on others. * require case-specific parameter tuning ROBEX aims for robust skull-stripping across datasets with no parameter settings. It fits a triangular mesh, constrained by a shape model, to the probabilistic output of a supervised brain boundary classifier. Because the shape model cannot perfectly accommodate unseen cases, a small free deformation is subsequently allowed. The deformation is optimized using graph cuts.

Proper citation: ROBEX (RRID:SCR_002534) Copy   

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https://www.nitrc.org/projects/rex/

A stand-alone MATLAB-based toolkit for the rapid and flexible exploration of Region of Interest (ROI) response waveforms and other signals from across large fMRI datasets. An alpha-release is currently available for use with an example dataset and tutorial.

Proper citation: REX (RRID:SCR_002532) Copy   

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https://code.google.com/p/niak/

Software library of modules and pipelines for fMRI processing with Octave or Matlab(r) that can run in parallel either locally or in a supercomputing environment. Linux OS and MINC file format are supported. NIAK currently includes a preprocessing, a region growing and a connectome pipelines. NIAK features powerful pipeline management capabilities, including parallel computing, generation of detailed logs and automatic handling of pipeline failures or updates.

Proper citation: NeuroImaging Analysis Kit (NIAK) (RRID:SCR_002497) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/rdti/

The package dti provides methods for structural adaptive smoothing of diffusion weighted data in the context of the diffusion tensor model. Through its edge preserving properties they reduce data noise without compromizing significant structures.

Proper citation: R-package for adaptive DWI analysis (RRID:SCR_002528) Copy   

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http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/SIFT

A GUI-enabled EEGLAB plugin for modeling and visualizing dynamical interactions between electrophysiological signals (EEG, ECoG, MEG, etc), preferably after transforming signals into the source domain. The toolbox consists of four modules: (1) Data Preprocessing, (2) Model Fitting and Connectivity Estimation, (3) Statistical Analysis, (4) Visualization, with a fifth Group Analysis module in development. Module 2 currently includes several adaptive multivariate autoregressive modeling (AMVAR) algorithms, including segmentation AMVAR and Kalman filtering. This subsequently allows the user to validate the model and estimate (in the time-frequency domain) a wide range of multivariate Granger-causal and coherence measures published to date. Module 3 includes routines for parametric and non-parametric significance testing. Module 4 contains routines for interactive visualization of dynamical interactions across time, frequency and anatomical source location.

Proper citation: Source Information Flow Toolbox (RRID:SCR_002561) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/wmls/

Segmentation tool that uses image analysis and machine learning techniques (Support Vector Machines). Image intensities from multiple MR acquisition protocols, after coregistration, are used to form a voxel-wise attribute vector which is used to perform the segmentation. Computer algorithms have started to complement expert-readings of MRI as they may improve throughput and consistency, in addition to providing more accurate quantitative measures of lesion type and volume. Computerized segmentation methods can also offer more precise measurements of longitudinal change of a lesion with disease progression or treatment response.

Proper citation: Brain lesion segmentation tool using SVM (RRID:SCR_002583) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/unlmeans/

A fast and robust software implementation of the popular Nonlocal Means for MRI-Rician denoising. It works by computing the non-local weights based on distances in a features space comprising the local mean value and gradients of the image. It can reach an acceleration factor of 20x over the original implementation, with an improved performance for medium-low SNR images. They use a bias correction step for Rician noise based on the well-known Conventional Approach. This software can be compiled either as a Slicer module or a stand-alone: http://www.nitrc.org/snapshots.php?group_id=518

Proper citation: Fast Nonlocal Means for MRI denoising (RRID:SCR_002586) Copy   

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http://tools.robjellis.net/

Simple, menu-driven software toolbox for SPM 5/8 for exploratory data analysis for functional or structural images (.img / .nii) provides the user with several options: # a histogram of all non-zero voxel values in a brain image; # a scatter plot, Q-Q plot, or Bland-Altman plots comparing two images; # a surface plot of all voxel values at a particular axial slice; # easy Region of Interst (ROI)-based extraction of voxel values. Note: the toolbox calls various SPM 5/8 functions. The Q-Q plot function requires the MATLAB stats toolbox.

Proper citation: vis: SPM Visualized Statistics toolbox (RRID:SCR_002619) Copy   

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https://github.com/incf-nidash/XCEDE

Data management software that provides an extensive metadata hierarchy for describing and documenting research and clinical studies. The schema organizes information into five general hierarchical levels: a complete project, studies within a project, subjects involved in the studies, visits for each of the subjects, the full description of the subject's participation during each visit.

Proper citation: XCEDE Schema (RRID:SCR_002571) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/pyxnat/

Software Python library that relies on the REST API provided by the XNAT platform since its 1.4 version. XNAT is an extensible database for neuroimaging data. The main objective is to ease communications with an XNAT server to plug-in external tools or python scripts to process the data.

Proper citation: pyxnat (RRID:SCR_002574) Copy   

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http://nipy.org/nipy

A complete Python environment for the analysis of structural and functional neuroimaging data. It currently has a full system for general linear modeling of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Proper citation: NIPY (RRID:SCR_002489) Copy   

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http://www.neurobs.com/

Stimulus delivery and experiment control program. Stimuli include auditory, 2D and 3D visual, and multimodal and experimental data include fMRI, ERP, MEG, psychophysics, eye movements, single neuron recording, and reaction time measures.

Proper citation: Presentation (RRID:SCR_002521) Copy   

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