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http://www.loni.usc.edu/BIRN/Projects/Mouse/

Animal model data primarily focused on mice including high resolution MRI, light and electron microscopic data from normal and genetically modified mice. It also has atlases, and the Mouse BIRN Atlasing Toolkit (MBAT) which provides a 3D visual interface to spatially registered distributed brain data acquired across scales. The goal of the Mouse BIRN is to help scientists utilize model organism databases for analyzing experimental data. Mouse BIRN has ended. The next phase of this project is the Mouse Connectome Project (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mcp/). The Mouse BIRN testbeds initially focused on mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases. Mouse BIRN testbed partners provide multi-modal, multi-scale reference image data of the mouse brain as well as genetic and genomic information linking genotype and brain phenotype. Researchers across six groups are pooling and analyzing multi-scale structural and functional data and integrating it with genomic and gene expression data acquired from the mouse brain. These correlated multi-scale analyses of data are providing a comprehensive basis upon which to interpret signals from the whole brain relative to the tissue and cellular alterations characteristic of the modeled disorder. BIRN's infrastructure is providing the collaborative tools to enable researchers with unique expertise and knowledge of the mouse an opportunity to work together on research relevant to pre-clinical mouse models of neurological disease. The Mouse BIRN also maintains a collaborative Web Wiki, which contains announcements, an FAQ, and much more.

Proper citation: Mouse Biomedical Informatics Research Network (RRID:SCR_003392) Copy   

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http://cng.gmu.edu:8080/Lm

A freely available software tool available for the Windows and Linux platform, as well as the Online version Applet, for the analysis, comparison and search of digital reconstructions of neuronal morphologies. For the quantitative characterization of neuronal morphology, LM computes a large number of neuroanatomical parameters from 3D digital reconstruction files starting from and combining a set of core metrics. After more than six years of development and use in the neuroscience community, LM enables the execution of commonly adopted analyses as well as of more advanced functions, including: (i) extraction of basic morphological parameters, (ii) computation of frequency distributions, (iii) measurements from user-specified subregions of the neuronal arbors, (iv) statistical comparison between two groups of cells and (v) filtered selections and searches from collections of neurons based on any Boolean combination of the available morphometric measures. These functionalities are easily accessed and deployed through a user-friendly graphical interface and typically execute within few minutes on a set of 20 neurons. The tool is available for either online use on any Java-enabled browser and platform or may be downloaded for local execution under Windows and Linux.

Proper citation: L-Measure (RRID:SCR_003487) Copy   

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http://www.thevirtualbrain.org/

Simulation software for modeling the entire human brain by combining structural and functional data from empirical neuroimaging data. It can generate local field potentials, EEG, MEG and fMRI BOLD data based on neural mass models. The user can also modify the model parameters to match clinical conditions from focal lesions or degenerative disorders.

Proper citation: Virtual brain (RRID:SCR_002249) Copy   

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

Software package for brain image manipulation and analysis, focusing on fMRI and lesion analysis. VoxBo can be used independently or in conjunction with other packages. It provides GLM-based statistical tools, an architecture for interoperability with other tools (they encourage users to incorporate SPM and FSL into their processing pipelines), an automation system, a system for parallel distributed computing, numerous stand-alone tools, decent wiki-based documentation, and lots more.

Proper citation: VoxBo (RRID:SCR_002166) Copy   

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http://wiki.biac.duke.edu/jvs:cigal

Software program that provides accurate real-time stimulus control, behavioral and physiological recording, and synchronization with external devices. It can also provide continuous real-time feedback of task performance and physiological responses. Task programming typically involves a simple text file specifying basic parameter settings (e.g. screen color) and a list of stimulus events, which can include images, animated movies, sound files, text stimuli, video graphics, or commands that communicate with external hardware devices. Multiple video and auditory stimuli can be presented simultaneously. Multi-channel response recording and real-time feedback features require no user programming. Advanced users can add customized stimulus events using CIGAL's real-time programming capabilities. Output files can be automatically created in a variety of output formats (e.g. FSL 3-column files, XML Events files, CSV trial tables).

Proper citation: CIGAL (RRID:SCR_002232) Copy   

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https://www.nitrc.org/projects/uncbcp_4d_atlas/

Software package for constructing longitudinal atlases, which are the necessary steps for many brain-related applications.

Proper citation: 4D Atlases Construction (RRID:SCR_002227) Copy   

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http://omlc.ogi.edu/software/mc/

MCML is a Monte Carlo simulation program for Multi-layered Turbid Media with an infinitely narrow photon beam as the light source. The simulation is specified by an input text file called, for example, sample.mci, which can be modified by any simple text editor. The output is another text file called, for example, sample.mco. (The names are arbitrary.) CONV is a convolution program which uses the MCML output file to convolve for photon beams of any size in a Gaussian or flat field shape. CONV can provide a variety of output formats (reflectance, transmission, iso-fluence contours, etc.), which are compatible with standard graphics applications.

Proper citation: MCML and CONV (RRID:SCR_002419) Copy   

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http://mgui.wikidot.com

An open source Java-based project intended to provide a graphic user interface (GUI) for interactions between scientists (or enthusiasts) and their data. In its current (beta) form, mgui offers the following functionality: * Cross-platform functionality (with a Java Runtime installation, runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, or Solaris) * 2D rendering of data based upon Java2D, and 3D rendering based upon Java3D * The ability to organize complex datasets into intuitive mgui projects * A processing pipeline interface which allows users to process their datasets with any available Java or native software tools * An extensible I/O framework accommodating a variety of standard and non-standard file formats * Database connectivity using JDBC * Graph visualization based upon the JUNG library * An intuitive Swing-based GUI for managing, querying, and visualizing data * Various CAD-type tools for editing and creating geometry * A computational modelling framework

Proper citation: ModelGUI (RRID:SCR_002441) Copy   

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http://air.bmap.ucla.edu/MultiTracer2/MultiTracer.html

A Java application that allows images to be displayed in three dimensions. The tool allows anatomic structures to be traced and the tracings to be saved in a format that facilitates review and revision. It supports NIfTI-1.1 format float, double and signed and unsigned byte, short, and integer formats and provides legacy support for Analyze 7.5 8 and 16 bit images. It provides image display, editing, delineation of structure boundaries, export of traced contours and generation of masked volumes. Images are displayed in 3 orthogonal views. Time series can be displayed as averaged or contrast images and time courses can be visualized graphically. Version 2 provides enhancements to the original MultiTracer feature set.

Proper citation: MultiTracer (RRID:SCR_002445) Copy   

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

Scan-rescan imaging sessions on 21 healthy volunteers (no history of neurological disease) intended to be a resource for statisticians and imaging scientists to be able to quantify the reproducibility of their imaging methods using data available from a generic 1 hour session at 3T. Imaging modalities include MPRAGE, FLAIR, DTI, resting state fMRI, B0 and B1 field maps, ASL, VASO, quantitative T1 mapping, quantitative T2 mapping, and magnetization transfer imaging. All data have been converted to NIFTI format. Please cite: Bennett. A. Landman, Alan J. Huang, Aliya Gifford, Deepti S. Vikram, Issel Anne L. Lim, Jonathan A.D. Farrell, John A. Bogovic, Jun Hua, Min Chen, Samson Jarso, Seth A. Smith, Suresh Joel, Susumu Mori, James J. Pekar, Peter B. Barker, Jerry L. Prince, and Peter C.M. van Zijl. ?Multi-Parametric Neuroimaging Reproducibility: A 3T Resource Study?, NeuroImage. (2010) NIHMS/PMC:252138 doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.047

Proper citation: Multi-Modal MRI Reproducibility Resource (RRID:SCR_002442) Copy   

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

Software package that is a powerful graphical interface that displays, segments, aligns, manipulates, and blends image (pixel) and geometry (real-world coordinates) data simultaneously. Several applications are directly built into MIVA. Registration modes include interactive affine transformations. Fiducial registration tools facilitate rapid alignments for inter-modality volumes. Interactive Region of Interst (ROI) and Volume-of-Interest (VOI) tools exist to segment medical images. Virtually unique to MIVA are its 3D geometry tools and their compatibility with pixel based medical images. A full 3D interactive rat brain atlas is in an fMRI module which walks one through the necessary steps of fMRI. A multiple material surface routine takes segmented medical slices and creates 3D triangulated surfaces that align along all region boarders without overlap or gaps. These surfaces are the direct input into the MIVA tetrahedral mesh generator.

Proper citation: Medical Image Visualization and Analysis (RRID:SCR_002315) Copy   

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

This simple visualization tool allows to load several images at the same time. The cursor across all windows are coupled and you can move/zoom on all the images at the same time. Very useful for quality control, image comparison.

Proper citation: MriWatcher (RRID:SCR_002318) Copy   

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

An efficient level set framework for multi-object segmentation. Its representation inherently prevents overlaps and gaps and it readily preserves object topology and object relationships. MGDM is efficient, storing only a fixed number of functions for any number of objects, and therefore scales well to segmentation problems with many classes and large images. It's representation also avoids some instabilities in other multi-class level set methods. MGDM is cross-platform; MATLAB wrappers, Java source and API are provided, with MIPAV plugins forthcoming.

Proper citation: MGDM: Multi Geometric Deformable Model (RRID:SCR_002311) Copy   

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http://www.med.unc.edu/bric/ideagroup/free-softwares/hammer

Software for both groupwise registration and longitudinal registration, which are the necessary steps for many brain-related applications. Specifically, groupwise registration is important for unbiased analysis of a large set of MR brain images. Therefore, in this software package, they have included two of their recently-developed groupwise registration algorithms: 1) Improved unbiased groupwise registration guided with the sharp group-mean image, and 2) Hierarchical feature-based groupwise registration with implicit template (Groupwise-HAMMER for short). On the other hand, they also included their recently-developed groupwise longitudinal registration algorithm that aligns not only the longitudinal image sequence for each subject, but also align all longitudinal image sequences of all subjects to the common space simultaneously.

Proper citation: GLIRT (RRID:SCR_002390) Copy   

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

Training material for the MS lesion segmentation challenge 2008 to compare different algorithms to segment the MS lesions from brain MRI scans. Data used for the workshop is composed of 54 brain MRI images and represents a range of patients and pathology which was acquired from Children's Hospital Boston and University of North Carolian. Data has initially been randomized into three groups: 20 training MRI images, 24 testing images for the qualifying and 8 for the onsite contest at the 2008 workshop. The downloadable online database consists now of the training images (including reference segmentations) and all the 32 combined testing images (without segmentations). The naming has not been changed in comparison to the workshop compeition in order to allow easy comparison between the workshop papers and the online database papers. One dataset has been removed (UNC_test1_Case02) due to considerable motion present only in its T2 image (without motion artifacts in T1 and FLAIR). Such a dataset unfairly penalizes methods that use T2 images versus methods that don't use the T2 image. Currently all cases have been segmented by expert raters at each institution. They have significant intersite variablility in segmentation. MS lesion MRI image data for this competition was acquired seperately by Children's Hospital Boston and University of North Carolina. UNC cases were acquired on Siemens 3T Allegra MRI scanner with slice thickness of 1mm and in-plane resolution of 0.5mm. To ease the segmentation process all data has been rigidly registered to a common reference frame and resliced to isotrophic voxel spacing using b-spline based interpolation. Pre-processed data is stored in NRRD format containing an ASCII readable header and a separate uncompressed raw image data file. This format is ITK compatible. If you want to join the competition, you can download data set from links here, and submit your segmentation results at http://www.ia.unc.edu/MSseg after registering your team. They require team name, password, and email address for future contact. Once experiment is completed, you can submit the segmentation data in a zip file format. Please refer submission page for uploading data format.

Proper citation: MS lesion segmentation challenge 2008 (RRID:SCR_002425) Copy   

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https://github.com/BRAINSia/BRAINSTools/tree/master/BRAINSFit

A program for registering images with with mutual information based metric. Several registration options are given for 3,6, 9,12,16 parameter (i.e. translate, rigid, scale, scale/skew, full affine) based constraints for the registration. The program uses the Slicer3 execution model framework to define the command line arguments and can be fully integrated with Slicer3 using the module discovery capabilities of Slicer3

Proper citation: BRAINSFit (RRID:SCR_002340) Copy   

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

An advanced viewer for electrophysiological and behavioral data: it can display local field potentials (EEG), neuronal spikes, behavioral events, as well as the position of the animal in the environment. It also features limited editing capabilities.

Proper citation: NeuroScope (RRID:SCR_002455) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/multi_t2/

Software tool designed to assist users in the estimation of multiple relaxation components from MRI T2 weighted spin-echo data such as that produced by a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) sequence. This problem is important to study myelin content in white matter diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Stimulated echoes arising from non-ideal flip angles are accounted for using the Extended Phase Graph (EPG) algorithm. The distribution is modelled as a small number of discrete components and a Bayesian estimation algorithm is provided to determine the weights and locations of the components as well as the actual flip angle. This algorithm outperforms iterative gradient descent based approaches.

Proper citation: Multicomponent T2 estimation with stimulated echo correction (RRID:SCR_002446) Copy   

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http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/N3/

The perl script nu_correct implements a novel approach to correcting for intensity non-uniformity in MR data that achieves high performance without requiring supervision. By making relatively few assumptions about the data, the method can be applied at an early stage in an automated data analysis, before a tissue intensity or geometric model is available. Described as Non-parametric Non-uniform intensity Normalization (N3), the method is independent of pulse sequence and insensitive to pathological data that might otherwise violate model assumptions. To eliminate the dependence of the field estimate on anatomy, an iterative approach is employed to estimate both the multiplicative bias field and the distribution of the true tissue intensities. Preprocessing of MR data using N3 has been shown to substantially improve the accuracy of anatomical analysis techniques such as tissue classification and cortical surface extraction.

Proper citation: MNI N3 (RRID:SCR_002484) Copy   

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http://neuronetrix.com/

A portable, highly integrated, internet-enabled, hardware / software platform and patient management system, which includes an online Patient Manager module which complies with the HIPAA Final Security Rule, an event-related potential (ERP) Viewer module to view and analyze raw and average ERP waves, and a Protocol Editor module to simplify the choice and administration of selected ERP protocols. It is also easy to train and administer with non-specialized personnel, and is designed to be used in an out-patient setting. COGNISION TM with auditory or visual event-related potential (ERP) technology, provides a direct physiologic measure of patients' cognitive processing (i.e., a cognitive biomarker).

Proper citation: COGNISION (RRID:SCR_002362) Copy   

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