<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>AnalysisSoftware</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>50</revnumber><date>2013-03-07 21:24:01</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>49</revnumber><date>2010-02-22 09:32:42</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>48</revnumber><date>2010-02-22 09:31:58</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>47</revnumber><date>2010-02-11 20:55:07</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>46</revnumber><date>2010-02-05 22:01:11</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>45</revnumber><date>2010-02-05 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13:01:32</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2009-10-16 13:01:21</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2009-10-16 13:00:23</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2009-10-16 12:56:55</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2009-10-16 12:56:46</date><authorinitials>RhodriCusack</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Neuroimaging software</title><para>You might want to <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/ScientificComputing#">read this overview of scientific computing</ulink>. </para><para>Keep up to date with this <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/ImagingComputingDevelopments#">list of latest developments</ulink> </para><para>Try the <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/StudentForum#">student forum for helpful tips</ulink> </para><section><title>Major neuroimaging software packages installed at the CBU</title><para>Most imagers at the CBU use <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/SpmInformation#">SPM, the predominant software analysis package from the FIL in London</ulink>, which has consistently been on the cutting edge of new methods. It runs under <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/LearningMatlab#">a language called Matlab</ulink> allowing you to browse the source and write your own components relatively easily. </para><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/FslInformation#">FSL</ulink> (&quot;fossil&quot;) - a powerful and fast collection of open source tools from FMRIB, Oxford also has many strengths and has a substantial following. </para><para>For some applications (particularly generating inflated brains, flat mapping, or performing grey &amp; white matter segmentation for MEG analysis) you might wish to use <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/FreeSurferAnalysis#">Freesurfer</ulink>. </para><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/AfniInformation#">Afni</ulink> is also installed. </para><para>There are some old licenses for Brain Voyager around. This point-and-click commercial package has many impressive features. </para><para>It seems we might have <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/BrainVisaInformation#">Brain Visa</ulink> installed but I think it is probably an old version. If you find out, please put the latest information here! </para><para>There is <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/AvailableSoftware#">a list of the people responsible for maintaining our neuroimaging (fMRI &amp; MEG) software</ulink>. </para></section><section><title>Automatic analysis (aa)</title><para>A system to automate SPM analyses, allowing the easy application of a set of pre-defined analysis recipes </para><para>For version 3.0 and later - the  <ulink url="http://www.cambridgeneuroimaging.com/aawiki">new aa wiki</ulink> </para><para>For earlier version - [<ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/AutomaticAnalysisIntroduction#">AutomaticAnalysisIntroduction</ulink> the older aa wiki] </para></section><section><title>Smaller tools</title><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/MriCro#">MRIcro and its successor MRIcroN</ulink> are a pair of very useful tools for viewing structural or functional images, producing 3D renderings of activation, and examining anatomical templates. </para><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/MriCro#">dcm2nii</ulink> (part of MRICron) is a tool that allows manipulating DICOM images, including converting them to NIFTI/ANALYZE and the like, rotating and cropping images and anonymizing the image header. (The first function is particularly useful if you are an FSL user.) </para></section><section><title>Extensions to SPM/Matlab</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/MarsBar#">MarsBar</ulink> - a useful toolbox for performing region-of-interest (ROI) analyses </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/DataDiagnostics#">tsdiffana</ulink> - data diagnostics utility, good for checking the quality of your fMRI data </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/SnpmInformation#">SnpmInformation</ulink> - for doing non-parametric statistics in SPM </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/LoadShare#">LoadShare</ulink> - our tool for balancing SPM jobs across machines </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/SpmBatchPrintContrasts#">SpmBatchPrintContrasts</ulink> - for printing contrasts automatically </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/DisplaySlices#">DisplaySlices</ulink> program for displaying multiple images slices in SPM </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Beyond fMRI</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/AnalyzingDiffusion#">AnalyzingDiffusion</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/UsingFreesurfer#">UsingFreesurfer</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Scripts</title><para>There is a list of the people responsible for maintaining our scripts <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/AvailableScripts#">AvailableScripts</ulink>. </para></section></section><section><title>General software</title><section><title>Programming</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/LearningUnix#">LearningUnix</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/LearningMatlab#">LearningMatlab</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/LearningPython#">LearningPython</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/ImageDataFormats#">ImageDataFormats</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Other tools you might find useful</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/DumpDemographics#">A script for dumping the age &amp; sex of a list of CBU numbers</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/UsingVNC%20Using%20VNC%20at%20the%20CBU#">UsingVNC Using VNC at the CBU</ulink> - gives you a graphical desktop on the linux machines from your desk </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/AnalysisSoftware/imaging/CbuSoftware#">An archive of other software that you might find useful</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Useful tools in Linux</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>gimp - Graphics viewing and editing program; the Linux version of Photoshop </para></listitem><listitem><para>acrobat - PDF viewer. </para></listitem><listitem><para>mozilla - web browser </para></listitem><listitem><para>nedit, gedit, emacs - text editors </para></listitem><listitem><para>kghostview - ps / psf / eps viewer useful for SPM postscript files </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></section></article>