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A statistical and graphical visualization MATLAB toolbox for the analysis of fMRI data, called the Bayesian Spatial Model for activation and connectivity (BSMac). BSMac simultaneously performs whole-brain activation analyses at the voxel and region of interest levels as well as task-related functional connectivity (FC) analyses using a flexible Bayesian modeling framework (Bowman et al., 2008). BSMac allows for inputting data in either Analyze or Nifti file formats. The user provides information pertaining to subgroup memberships, scanning sessions, and experimental tasks (stimuli), from which the design matrix is constructed. BSMac then performs parameter estimation based on MCMC methods and generates plots for activation and FC, such as interactive 2D maps of voxel and region-level task-related changes in neural activity and animated 3D graphics of the FC results.

Proper citation: BSMac (RRID:SCR_009531) Copy   

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

Program to develop generic standards and tools to facilitate the recording, sharing, and reporting of neuroimaging metadata. It is expected that these efforts will greatly improve upon current practices for archiving and sharing neuroscience data. Neuroscience data, particularly those in neuroinformatics related areas such as neuroimaging and electrophysiology, are associated with a rich set of descriptive information often called metadata. For data archive, storage, sharing and re-use, metadata are of equal importance to primary data, as they define the methods and conditions of data acquisition (such as device characteristics, study/experiment protocol and parameters, behavioral paradigms, and subject/patient information), and statistical procedures. A further challenge for datasharing is the rapidly evolving nature of investigative methods and scientific applications.

Proper citation: INCF Neuroimaging Data Sharing (RRID:SCR_009497) Copy   

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

A Diffusion Tensor fiber tracking software suite that includes streamline tracking tools. The fiber tracking includes a guided tracking tool that integrates apriori information into a streamlines algorithm. This suite of programs is built using the NA-MIC toolkit and uses the Slicer3 execution model framework to define the command line arguments. These tools can be fully integrated with Slicer3 using the module discovery capabilities of Slicer3. NOTE: All new development is being managed in a github repository. Please visit, https://github.com/BRAINSia/BRAINSTools

Proper citation: GTRACT (RRID:SCR_009651) Copy   

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

Suite of tools for brain image analysis. Image manipulation, 2D visualization, linear alignment, BBSI, template-based bias correction, skullstrip. GUI Image analysis tools. Now modified to read/write single file nifti (.nii) format. Other packages to be added.

Proper citation: IDeA Lab brain image processing suite (RRID:SCR_009495) Copy   

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

A method for group-wise image registration by pairwisely registering similar images identified using graph theoretic techniques. Particularly, they use sparse coding to estimate image similarity measures among images to be registered, yielding asymmetric, group-wise image similarity measures for each image to others in the group.

Proper citation: Groupwise Image Registration Toolbox (RRID:SCR_009492) Copy   

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http://www.restfmri.net

A user-friendly convenient toolkit to calculate Functional Connectivity (FC), Regional Homogeneity (ReHo), Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation (ALFF), Fractional ALFF (fALFF), Gragner causality and perform statistical analysis. You also can use REST to view your data, perform Monte Carlo simulation similar to AlphaSim in AFNI, calculate your images, regress out covariates, extract Region of Interest (ROI) time courses, reslice images, and sort DICOM files.

Proper citation: REST: a toolkit for resting-state fMRI (RRID:SCR_009641) Copy   

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

Tool to generate brain volume mask from input of T1 and T2-weighted images alongside a region of interest brain mask. This volume mask omits dura, skull, eyes, etc. The program is built upon ITK and 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: BRAINSMush (RRID:SCR_009485) Copy   

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

Quadratically constrained quadratic programing (QCQP) technique in medical image analysis. QCQP based tools are provided for classification, segmentation, and bias field correction.

Proper citation: QCQP (RRID:SCR_009640) Copy   

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http://www.columbia.edu/~dx2103/brainimagescope.html

Software package for processing diffusion tensor imaging data. The following functions are included: 1. Converting imaging data in DICOME format to ANALYZE format 2. Extracting binary brain mask for quick scalp-removing 3. Correcting eddy-current induced distortion 4. Optimized tensor estimation based on noisy diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data 5. Scalp removal using a brain mask image 6. Corregistering imaging data and generating deformation field for mapping images from individual spaces to a template or target space 7. Spatial Normalization and Warping DTI 8. Fiber tracking 9. Clustering fiber tracts 10. Identifying brain ventricles and generating binary masks for the baseline and DW imaging data 11. Deriving diffusion anisotropy indices (DAIs) and principal directions (PD) and the corresponding color-coded PD-map.

Proper citation: DTI BrainImageScope (RRID:SCR_009559) Copy   

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http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/

A cross-platform software program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences. It is entirely orientated towards rooted, time-measured phylogenies inferred using strict or relaxed molecular clock models. It can be used as a method of reconstructing phylogenies but is also a framework for testing evolutionary hypotheses without conditioning on a single tree topology. BEAST uses MCMC to average over tree space, so that each tree is weighted proportional to its posterior probability. We include a simple to use user-interface program for setting up standard analyses and a suit of programs for analysing the results.

Proper citation: BEAST (RRID:SCR_010228) Copy   

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http://cocomac.org/WWW/paxinos3D/index.html

An interactive interface of macaque stereotaxic atlas with a connectivity database, allowing integrated data analysis and mapping between 3D structures with database vocabularies. These Java-based tools are capable of reading stacks of polygons described in svg vector format and arrange them in 3D space so that the corresponding structures can be viewed and manipulated individually. An additional excel (currently v. 1997-2003) file maintains the structure abbreviations and their mapping to the terminology of databases that provide supplementary information. Here in particular we have manually drawn the cortical, striatal, thalamic and amygdaloid structures of the 151 frontal sections from the Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotactic Coordinates authored by Paxinos and colleagues in 1999. After loading the excel file and a set of the svg files, the view can be rotated, zoomed and individual brain structures be selected for identification and simple geometric measures. A stereotaxic grid is a display option. The abbreviations of the brain structures are mapped to entities recorded in the CoCoMac database of primate brain connectivity. Thereby one can retrieve mapping and connectivity information for the selected structure as text or connecting arrows.

Proper citation: CoCoMac-Paxinos3D viewer (RRID:SCR_009548) Copy   

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http://invizian.loni.usc.edu

A visualization environment that enables you, via your computer, to display and interact with hundreds of neuroimaging data sets at once ?bringing together brain image data from some of the world?s best neuroscience research teams. INVIZIAN empowers both researchers and students of neuroscience to explore and understand the human brain using a simple yet powerful user interface for neuroimaging data exploration and discovery. See a beautiful example of a cloud of individual brains tumbling around in the INVIZIAN interface in Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/67984681). Visit often to see how we are making continuing progress to make Invizian even more amazing.

Proper citation: INVIZIAN (RRID:SCR_009549) Copy   

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http://www.socr.ucla.edu/

A hierarchy of portable online interactive aids for motivating, modernizing probability and statistics applications. The tools and resources include a repository of interactive applets, computational and graphing tools, instructional and course materials. The core SOCR educational and computational components include the following suite of web-based Java applets: * Distributions (interactive graphs and calculators) * Experiments (virtual computer-generated games and processes) * Analyses (collection of common web-accessible tools for statistical data analysis) * Games (interfaces and simulations to real-life processes) * Modeler (tools for distribution, polynomial and spectral model-fitting and simulation) * Graphs, Plots and Charts (comprehensive web-based tools for exploratory data analysis), * Additional Tools (other statistical tools and resources) * SOCR Java-based Statistical Computing Libraries * SOCR Wiki (collaborative Wiki resource) * Educational Materials and Hands-on Activities (varieties of SOCR educational materials), * SOCR Statistical Consulting In addition, SOCR provides a suite of tools for volume-based statistical mapping (http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_EduMaterials_AnalysesCommandLine) via command-line execution and via the LONI Pipeline workflows (http://www.nitrc.org/projects/pipeline). Course instructors and teachers will find the SOCR class notes and interactive tools useful for student motivation, concept demonstrations and for enhancing their technology based pedagogical approaches to any study of variation and uncertainty. Students and trainees may find the SOCR class notes, analyses, computational and graphing tools extremely useful in their learning/practicing pursuits. Model developers, software programmers and other engineering, biomedical and applied researchers may find the light-weight plug-in oriented SOCR computational libraries and infrastructure useful in their algorithm designs and research efforts. The three types of SOCR resources are: * Interactive Java applets: these include a number of different applets, simulations, demonstrations, virtual experiments, tools for data visualization and analysis, etc. All applets require a Java-enabled browser (if you see a blank screen, see the SOCR Feedback to find out how to configure your browser). * Instructional Resources: these include data, electronic textbooks, tutorials, etc. * Learning Activities: these include various interactive hands-on activities. * SOCR Video Tutorials (including general and tool-specific screencasts).

Proper citation: Statistics Online Computational Resource (RRID:SCR_003378) 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.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://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/

Collaborative framework that includes the NIH Office of the Director and the 14 NIH Institutes and Centers that support research on the nervous system. By pooling resources and expertise, the Blueprint identifies cross-cutting areas of research, and confronts challenges too large for any single Institute or Center. The Blueprint makes collaboration a day-to-day part of how the NIH does business in neuroscience, complementing the basic missions of Blueprint partners. During each fiscal year, the partners contribute a small percentage of their funds to a common pool. Since the Blueprint's inception in 2004, this pool has comprised less than 1 percent of the total neuroscience research budget of the partners. In 2009, the Blueprint Grand Challenges were launched to catalyze research with the potential to transform our basic understanding of the brain and our approaches to treating brain disorders. * The Human Connectome Project is an effort to map the connections within the healthy brain. It is expected to help answer questions about how genes influence brain connectivity, and how this in turn relates to mood, personality and behavior. The investigators will collect brain imaging data, plus genetic and behavioral data from 1,200 adults. They are working to optimize brain imaging techniques to see the brain's wiring in unprecedented detail. * The Grand Challenge on Pain supports research to understand the changes in the nervous system that cause acute, temporary pain to become chronic. The initiative is supporting multi-investigator projects to partner researchers in the pain field with researchers in the neuroplasticity field. * The Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network is helping small labs develop new drugs for nervous system disorders. The Network provides research funding, plus access to millions of dollars worth of services and expertise to assist in every step of the drug development process, from laboratory studies to preparation for clinical trials. Project teams across the U.S. have received funding to pursue drugs for conditions from vision loss to neurodegenerative disease to depression. Since its inception in 2004, the Blueprint has supported the development of new resources, tools and opportunities for neuroscientists. For example, the Blueprint supports several training programs to help students pursue interdisciplinary areas of neuroscience, and to bring students from underrepresented groups into the neurosciences. The Blueprint also funds efforts to develop new approaches to teaching neuroscience through K-12 instruction, museum exhibits and web-based platforms. From fiscal years 2007 to 2009, the Blueprint focused on three major themes of neuroscience - neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, and neuroplasticity. These efforts enabled unique funding opportunities and training programs, and helped establish new resources including the Blueprint Non-Human Primate Brain Atlas.

Proper citation: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research (RRID:SCR_003670) Copy   

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http://neuro.debian.net/

Collection based on a collaborative effort of popular neuroscience research software for the Debian operating system as well as Ubuntu and other derivatives. Popular packages include AFNI, FSL, PyMVPA and many others. It contains both unofficial or prospective packages which are not (yet) available from the main Debian archive, as well as backported or simply rebuilt packages also available elsewhere. A listing of current and planned projects is available if you want to get involved. The main goal of the project is to provide a versatile and convenient environment for neuroscientific research that is based on open-source software. To this end, the project offers a package repository that complements the main Debian (and Ubuntu) archive. NeuroDebian is not yet another Linux distribution, but rather an effort inside the Debian project itself. Software packages are fully integrated into the Debian system and from there will eventually migrate into Ubuntu as well. With NeuroDebian, installing and updating neuroscience software is no different from any other part of the operating system. Maintaining a research software environment becomes as easy as installing an editor. There is also virtual machine to test NeuroDebian on Windows or Mac OS. If you want to see your software packaged for Debian, please drop them a note.

Proper citation: neurodebian (RRID:SCR_004401) Copy   

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http://openconnectomeproject.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 9, 2023. Connectomes repository to facilitate the analysis of connectome data by providing a unified front for connectomics research. With a focus on Electron Microscopy (EM) data and various forms of Magnetic Resonance (MR) data, the project aims to make state-of-the-art neuroscience open to anybody with computer access, regardless of knowledge, training, background, etc. Open science means open to view, play, analyze, contribute, anything. Access to high resolution neuroanatomical images that can be used to explore connectomes and programmatic access to this data for human and machine annotation are provided, with a long-term goal of reconstructing the neural circuits comprising an entire brain. This project aims to bring the most state-of-the-art scientific data in the world to the hands of anybody with internet access, so collectively, we can begin to unravel connectomes. Services: * Data Hosting - Their Bruster (brain-cluster) is large enough to store nearly any modern connectome data set. Contact them to make your data available to others for any purpose, including gaining access to state-of-the-art analysis and machine vision pipelines. * Web Viewing - Collaborative Annotation Toolkit for Massive Amounts of Image Data (CATMAID) is designed to navigate, share and collaboratively annotate massive image data sets of biological specimens. The interface is inspired by Google Maps, enhanced to allow the exploration of 3D image data. View the fork of the code or go directly to view the data. * Volume Cutout Service - RESTful API that enables you to select any arbitrary volume of the 3d database (3ddb), and receive a link to download an HDF5 file (for matlab, C, C++, or C#) or a NumPy pickle (for python). Use some other programming language? Just let them know. * Annotation Database - Spatially co-registered volumetric annotations are compactly stored for efficient queries such as: find all synapses, or which neurons synapse onto this one. Create your own annotations or browse others. *Sample Downloads - In addition to being able to select arbitrary downloads from the datasets, they have also collected a few choice volumes of interest. * Volume Viewer - A web and GPU enabled stand-alone app for viewing volumes at arbitrary cutting planes and zoom levels. The code and program can be downloaded. * Machine Vision Pipeline - They are building a machine vision pipeline that pulls volumes from the 3ddb and outputs neural circuits. - a work in progress. As soon as we have a stable version, it will be released. * Mr. Cap - The Magnetic Resonance Connectome Automated Pipeline (Mr. Cap) is built on JIST/MIPAV for high-throughput estimation of connectomes from diffusion and structural imaging data. * Graph Invariant Computation - Upload your graphs or streamlines, and download some invariants. * iPad App - WholeSlide is an iPad app that accesses utilizes our open data and API to serve images on the go.

Proper citation: Open Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_004232) Copy   

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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iop/depts/neuroimaging/research/imaginganalysis/Software/rBET.aspx

A modified version of the Brain Extraction Tool (BET) that can process rodent brains.

Proper citation: Rodent Brain Extraction Tool (RRID:SCR_002538) Copy   

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

Non-rigid registration / distortion correction tools for enhanced functional localization through the registration of EPI fMRI to high-resolution anatomical MRI.

Proper citation: NPTK (RRID:SCR_002496) Copy   

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