Debian Science Cognitive neuroscience packages

AMIDE: (Amide's a Medical Imaging Data Examiner) AMIDE is a tool for viewing and analyzing medical image data sets. It's capabilities include the simultaneous handling of multiple data sets imported from a variety of file formats, image fusion, 3D region of interest drawing and analysis, volume rendering, and rigid body alignments.

This software allows for creating, viewing and manipulating surface reconstructions of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex, viewing volumes and for displaying experimental data on the surfaces and volumes. While Caret is primarily a GUI application with 'caret_command' there is also a versatile command line tool, that allows access to a substantial proportion of Caret's functionality.

Caret can download and use stereotaxic atlases (human, monkey, mouse and rat) from an open online database.

Some functionality of Caret is only available when additional data files, provided by the caret-data package, are available. This includes:

• Map volumes to surface via PALS atlas
• Multi-resolution morphing
• Projection of foci via PALS atlas
• Surface-based registration
• Surface flattening

Currently the caret-data package is only available from the NeuroDebian repository. Please see http://neuro.debian.net for more information.

Command line utilities for creating, modifying, dumping and validating files of DICOM attributes. Support conversion of some proprietary medical image formats to DICOM. Can handle older ACR/NEMA format data, and some proprietary versions of that such as SPI.

The dinifti program converts MRI images stored in DICOM format to NIfTI format. The NIfTI format is thought to be the new standard image format for medical imaging and can be used with for example with FSL, AFNI, SPM, Caret or Freesurfer.

dinifti converts single files, but also supports fully automatic batch conversions of complete dicomdirs. Additionally, converted NIfTI files can be properly named, using image series information from the DICOM files.

This package provides a viewer for 3d and 4d MRI data as well as DTI images. FSLView is able to display ANALYZE and NIFTI files. The viewer supports multiple 2d viewing modes (orthogonal, lightbox or single slices), but also 3d volume rendering. Additionally FSLView is able to visualize timeseries and can overlay metrical and stereotaxic atlas data.

FSLView is part of FSL.

SNAP provides semi-automatic segmentation of structures in medical images (e.g. magnetic resonance images of the brain) using active contour methods, as well as manual delineation and image navigation. Noteworthy features are:

• Linked cursor for seamless 3D navigation
• Manual segmentation in three orthogonal planes at once
• Support for many different 3D image formats, including NIfTI
• Support for concurrent, linked viewing and segmentation of multiple images
• Limited support for color images (e.g., diffusion tensor maps)
• 3D cut-plane tool for fast post-processing of segmentation results

Leipzig Image Processing and Statistical Inference Algorithms (LIPSIA)

This is a software package for the data processing and evaluation of functional magnetic resonance images. The analysis of fMRI data comprises various aspects including filtering, spatial transformation, statistical evaluation as well as segmentation and visualization. All these aspects are covered by LIPSIA. For the statistical evaluation, a number of well established and peer-reviewed algorithms were implemented in LIPSIA that allow an efficient and user-friendly processing of fMRI data sets. As the amount of data that must be handled is enormous, an important aspect in the development of LIPSIA was the efficiency of the software implementation.

LIPSIA operates exclusively on data in the VISTA data format. However, the package contains converters for medical image data in iBruker, ANALYZE and NIfTI format -- converting VISTA images into NIfTI files is also supported.

This project stands for Medical Image Conversion. Released under the (L)GPL, it comes with the full C-source code of the library, a flexible command line utility and a neat graphical front-end using the GTK+ toolkit. The currently supported formats are: Acr/Nema 2.0, Analyze (SPM), DICOM 3.0, InterFile 3.3 and PNG.

The program also allows to read unsupported files without compression, to print pixel values or to extract/reorder specified images. It is possible to retrieve the raw binary/ascii image arrays or to write PNG for desktop applications.

This is the command line tool for batch processing.

This package contains tools to manipulate MINC files.

The Minc file format is a highly flexible medical image file format built on top of the NetCDF generalized data format. The format is simple, self-describing, extensible, portable and N-dimensional, with programming interfaces for both low-level data access and high-level volume manipulation. On top of the libraries is a suite of generic image-file manipulation tools. The format, libraries and tools are designed for use in a medical-imaging research environment: they are simple and powerful and make no attempt to provide a pretty interface to users.

MRIConvert is a medical image file conversion utility that converts DICOM files to NIfTI 1.1, Analyze 7.5, SPM99/Analyze, BrainVoyager, and MetaImage volume formats.

This is a GUI-based visualization and analysis tool for (functional) magnetic resonance imaging. MRIcron can be used to create 2D or 3D renderings of statistical overlay maps on brain anatomy images. Moreover, it aids drawing anatomical regions-of-interest (ROI), or lesion mapping, as well as basic analysis of functional timeseries (e.g. creating plots of peristimulus signal-change).

In addition to 'mricron', this package also provides 'dcm2nii' that supports converting DICOM and PAR/REC images into the NIfTI format, and 'npm' for non-parametric data analysis.

Niftilib is a set of i/o libraries for reading and writing files in the NIfTI-1 data format. NIfTI-1 is a binary file format for storing medical image data, e.g. magnetic resonance image (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) brain images.

This package provides the tools that are shipped with the library (nifti_tool, nifti_stats and nifti1_test).

OpenMEEG consists of state-of-the art solvers for forward problems in the field of MEG and EEG. Solvers are based on the symmetric Boundary Element method [Kybic et al, 2005], providing excellent accuracy, particularly for superficial cortical sources. OpenMEEG can compute four types of lead fields (EEG, MEG, Internal Potential and Electrical Impedence Tomography).

This package provides command line interface to openmeeg functionality.

According to its authors, praat is "doing phonetics by computer". Through its graphical interface, several speech analysis functionalities are available: spectrograms, cochleograms, and pitch and formant extraction. Articulatory synthesis, as well as synthesis from pitch, formant, and intensity are also available. Other features are segmentation, labelling using the phonetic alphabet, and computation of statistics. Praat is configurable and extensible through its own scripting language and has provisions for communicating with other programs.

Psignifit allows fitting of psychometric functions to datasets while maintaining full control over a large number of parameters. Data can either be read from text files or passed through a pipe.

Psignifit performs the calculation of confidence intervals as well as goodness-of-fit tests.

This is the command line version.

PyMVPA eases pattern classification analyses of large datasets, with an accent on neuroimaging. It provides high-level abstraction of typical processing steps (e.g. data preparation, classification, feature selection, generalization testing), a number of implementations of some popular algorithms (e.g. kNN, GNB, Ridge Regressions, Sparse Multinomial Logistic Regression), and bindings to external machine learning libraries (libsvm, shogun).

While it is not limited to neuroimaging data (e.g. fMRI, or EEG) it is eminently suited for such datasets.

Using PyNIfTI one can easily read and write NIfTI and ANALYZE images from within Python. The NiftiImage class provides Python-style access to the full header information. Image data is made available via NumPy arrays.

PyEPL is a stimuli delivery and response registration toolkit to be used for generating psychology (as well as neuroscience, marketing research, and other) experiments.

It provides

• presentation: both visual and auditory stimuli
• responses registration: both manual (keyboard/joystick) and sound (microphone) time-stamped
• sync-pulsing: synchronizing your behavioral task with external acquisition hardware
• flexibility of encoding various experiments due to the use of Python as a description language
• fast execution of critical points due to the calls to linked compiled libraries

This toolbox is here to be an alternative for a widely used commercial product E'(E-Prime)

This package provides PyEPL for supported versions of Python.

Psignifit allows fitting of psychometric functions to datasets while maintaining full control over a large number of parameters. Psignifit performs the calculation of confidence intervals as well as goodness-of-fit tests. In addition it offers:

• full Bayesian treatment of psychometric functions including Bayesian model selection and goodness of fit assessment
• identification of influential observations and outlier detection
• flexible shape definition of the psychometric function

This package provides the Python bindings.

pyxnat is a simple 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. It features:

• resources browsing capabilities
• read and write access to resources
• complex searches
• disk-caching of requested files and resources

statsmodels Python module provides classes and functions for the estimation of several categories of statistical models. These currently include linear regression models, OLS, GLS, WLS and GLS with AR(p) errors, generalized linear models for six distribution families and M-estimators for robust linear models. An extensive list of result statistics are available for each estimation problem.

Slicer is an application for computer scientists and clinical researchers. The platform provides functionality for segmentation, registration and three-dimensional visualization of multi-modal image data, as well as advanced image analysis algorithms for diffusion tensor imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging and image-guided therapy. Standard image file formats are supported, and the application integrates interface capabilities to biomedical research software and image informatics frameworks.

3D Slicer main application.

This is a toolkit for analysis of functional neuroimaging (chiefly fMRI) experiments and voxel-based lesion-behavior mapping. VoxBo supports the modified GLM (for autocorrelated data), as well as the standard GLM for non-autocorrelated data. The toolkit is designed to be interoperable with AFNI, FSL, SPM and others.

This project stands for Medical Image Conversion. Released under the (L)GPL, it comes with the full C-source code of the library, a flexible command line utility and a neat graphical front-end using the GTK+ toolkit. The currently supported formats are: Acr/Nema 2.0, Analyze (SPM), DICOM 3.0, InterFile 3.3 and PNG.

The program also allows to read unsupported files without compression, to print pixel values or to extract/reorder specified images. It is possible to retrieve the raw binary/ascii image arrays or to write PNG for desktop applications.

This is the program version for X based on GTK+. Processes only one file at a time.

The Connectome Viewer is a extensible, scriptable, pythonic research environment for visualization and (network) analysis in neuroimaging and connectomics.

Employing the Connectome File Format, diverse data types such as networks, surfaces, volumes, tracks and metadata are handled and integrated. The Connectome Viewer is part of the MR Connectome Toolkit.

This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for carrying out any experiment relating physical stimuli and their psychological effects.

The selection of packages is targeting software for stimuli delivery. For additional software related to the analysis of the acquired data refer to science-neuroscience-cognitive, med-imaging depending on the domain of application. Additionally look into science-bci since those often provide a complete loop frameworks including stimuli delivery.

This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to typesetting. You might also be interested in the use::typesetting debtag.

FSL is a comprehensive library of image analysis and statistical tools for fMRI, MRI and DTI brain imaging data. The suite consists of various command line tools, as well as simple GUIs for its core analysis pipelines. Among others, FSL offers implementations of standard GLM analysis, white matter tractography, tissue segmentation, affine and non-linear co-registration, and independent component analysis.

AFNI is an environment for processing and displaying functional MRI data. It provides a complete analysis toolchain, including 3D cortical surface models, and mapping of volumetric data (SUMA).

In addition to its own format AFNI understands the NIfTI format and is therefore easily usable in combination with FSL and FreeSurfer.

BioImage Suite has extensive capabilities for both neuro/cardiac and abdominal image analysis and state of the art visualization. Many packages are available that are highly extensible, and provide functionality for image visualization and registration, surface editing, cardiac 4D multi-slice editing, diffusion tensor image processing, mouse segmentation and registration, and much more. It can be integrated with other biomedical image processing software, such as FSL and SPM. This site provides information, downloads, documentation, and other resources for users of the software.

BioImage Suite was developed at Yale University and has been extensively used at different labs at Yale since 2004.

Stimulus counter-balance is important for many experimental designs. This command-line software creates De Bruijn cycles, which are pseudo-random sequences with arbitrary levels of counterbalance. "Path-guided" de Bruijn cycles may also be created. These sequences encode a hypothesized neural modulation at specified temporal frequencies, and have enhanced detection power for BOLD fMRI experiments.

This package depends upon the latest version of freesurfer.

EEGLAB is an interactive Matlab toolbox for processing continuous and event-related EEG, MEG and other electrophysiological data incorporating independent component analysis (ICA), time/frequency analysis, artifact rejection, event-related statistics, and several useful modes of visualization of the averaged and single-trial data.

This package provides a version of the MNI Average Brain (an average of 305 T1-weighted MRI scans, linearly transformed to Talairach space) specially adapted for use with the MNI Linear Registration Package.

• average_305.mnc - a version of the average MRI that covers the whole brain (unlike the original Talairach atlas), sampled with 1mm cubic voxels
• average_305_mask.mnc - a mask of the brain in average_305.mnc
• average_305_headmask.mnc - another mask, required for nonlinear mode

Remark: Michael Hanke agreed to take over his stuff from mentors http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=mni-autoreg and http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=mni-autoreg-model to Debian Med svn and start group maintenance.

MNI Non-parametric Non-uniformity Normalization (N3). This package provides the 'nu_correct' tool for unsupervised correction of radio frequency (RF) field inhomogenities in MR volumes. Two packages are provided:

• mni-n3 - provides 'nu_correct'
• libebtks-dev - MNI support library with numerical types and algorithms

Remark: Michael Hanke agreed to take over his stuff from mentors http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=mni-n3 to Debian Med svn and start group maintenance.

The software includes algorithms for simple and advanced analysis of MEG and EEG data, such as time-frequency analysis, source reconstruction using dipoles, distributed sources and beamformers and non-parametric statistical testing. It supports the data formats of all major MEG systems (CTF, Neuromag, BTi) and of the most popular EEG systems, and new formats can be added easily. FieldTrip contains high-level functions that you can use to construct your own analysis protocols in Matlab. Furthermore, it easily allows developers to incorporate low-level algorithms for new EEG/MEG analysis methods.

This is a Python package for visualization and interaction with cortical surface representations of neuroimaging data from Freesurfer. It extends Mayavi’s powerful visualization engine with a high-level interface for working with MRI and MEG data.

PySurfer offers both a command-line interface designed to broadly replicate Freesurfer’s Tksurfer program as well as a Python library for writing scripts to efficiently explore complex datasets.

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) refers to the construction and assessment of spatially extended statistical processes used to test hypotheses about functional imaging data. These ideas have been instantiated in software that is called SPM. It is designed for the analysis of fMRI, PET, SPECT, EEG and MEG.

The primary functionality of XNAT is to provide a place to store and control access to neuroimaging data. This includes sophisticated user control, search and retrieval, and archiving capabilities. As open-source software, XNAT also supports a wide variety of research-based processing pipelines, and is able to link up with supercomputer processing power to dramatically shorten image processing time.

BrainVISA is a software, which embodies an image processing factory. A simple control panel allows the user to trigger some sequences of treatments on series of images. These treatments are performed by calls to command lines provided by different laboratories. These command lines, hence, are the building blocks on which are built the assembly lines of the factory. BrainVISA is distributed with a toolbox of building blocks dedicated to the segmentation of T1-weighted MR images. The product of the main assembly line made up from this toolbox is the following: grey/white classification for Voxel Based Morphometry, Meshes of each hemisphere surface for visualization purpose, Spherical meshes of each hemisphere white matter surface, a graph of the cortical folds, a labeling of the cortical folds according to a nomenclature of the main sulci.

The Human Imaging Database (HID) is an extensible database management system developed to handle the increasingly large and diverse datasets collected as part of the MBIRN and FBIRN collaboratories and throughout clinical imaging communities at large.

This graphical environment allows for designing large-scale multi-level neuronal systems that can control real-world devices, such as cameras and mobile robots, in real-time. iqr is an extensible framework with the ability to handle new, user-provided, neuron and synapse types, as well as custom interfaces to other hardware systems. iqr employes an XML-based format for system descriptions.