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https://www.mristudio.org/

An image processing program running under Windows suitable for such tasks as tensor calculation, color mapping, fiber tracking, and 3D visualization. Most of operations can be done with only a few clicks. This tool evolved from DTI Studio. Tools in the program can be grouped in the following way: * Image Viewer * Diffusion Tensor Calculations * Fiber Tracking and Editing * 3D Visualization * Image File Management * Region of Interesting (ROI) Drawing and Statistics * Image Registration

Proper citation: MRI Studio (RRID:SCR_001398) Copy   

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http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/

Knowledge base (or ontology) that characterizes the state of current thought in cognitive science that captures knowledge from users with expertise in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. There are two basic kinds of knowledge in the knowledge base. Terms provide definitions and properties for individual concepts and tasks. Assertions describe relations between terms in the same way that a sentence describes relations between parts of speech. The goal is to develop a knowledge base that will support annotation of data in databases, as well as supporting improved discourse in the community. It is open to all interested researchers. A fundamental feature of the knowledge base is the desire and ability to capture not just agreement but also disagreement regarding definitions and assertions. Thus, if you see a definition or assertion that you disagree with, then you can assert and describe your disagreement. The project is led by Russell Poldrack, Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Computational Biology (A. Toga, PI) and UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (R. Bilder, PI). Most tasks used in cognitive psychology research are not identical across different laboratories or even within the same laboratory over time. A major advantage of anchoring cognitive ontologies to the measurement level is that the strategy for determining changes in task properties is easier than tracking changes in concept definitions and usage. The process is easier because task parameters are usually (if not always) operationalized objectively, offering a clear basis to judge divergence in methods. The process is also easier because most tasks are based on prior tasks, and thus can more readily be considered descendants in a phylogenetic sense.

Proper citation: Cognitive Atlas (RRID:SCR_002793) Copy   

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http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/

Software library of image analysis and statistical tools for fMRI, MRI and DTI brain imaging data. Include registration, atlases, diffusion MRI tools for parameter reconstruction and probabilistic taractography, and viewer. Several brain atlases, integrated into FSLView and Featquery, allow viewing of structural and cytoarchitectonic standard space labels and probability maps for cortical and subcortical structures and white matter tracts. Includes Harvard-Oxford cortical and subcortical structural atlases, Julich histological atlas, JHU DTI-based white-matter atlases, Oxford thalamic connectivity atlas, Talairach atlas, MNI structural atlas, and Cerebellum atlas.

Proper citation: FSL (RRID:SCR_002823) Copy   

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http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on May 11, 2016. Repository of brain-mapping data (surfaces and volumes; structural and functional data) derived from studies including fMRI and MRI from many laboratories, providing convenient access to a growing body of neuroimaging and related data. WebCaret is an online visualization tool for viewing SumsDB datasets. SumsDB includes: * data on cerebral cortex and cerebellar cortex * individual subject data and population data mapped to atlases * data from FreeSurfer and other brainmapping software besides Caret SumsDB provides multiple levels of data access and security: * Free (public) access (e.g., for data associated with published studies) * Data access restricted to collaborators in different laboratories * Owner-only access for work in progress Data can be downloaded from SumsDB as individual files or as bundles archived for offline visualization and analysis in Caret WebCaret provides online Caret-style visualization while circumventing software and data downloads. It is a server-side application running on a linux cluster at Washington University. WebCaret "scenes" facilitate rapid visualization of complex combinations of data Bi-directional links between online publications and WebCaret/SumsDB provide: * Links from figures in online journal article to corresponding scenes in WebCaret * Links from metadata in WebCaret directly to relevant online publications and figures

Proper citation: SumsDB (RRID:SCR_002759) Copy   

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http://studyforrest.org

An MRI data repository that holds a set of 7 Tesla images and behavioral metadata. Multi-faceted brain image archive with behavioral measurements. For each participant a number of different scans and auxiliary recordings have been obtained. In addition, several types of minimally preprocessed data are also provided. The full description of the data release is available in a dedicated publication. This project invites anyone to participate in a decentralized effort to explore the opportunities of open science in neuroimaging by documenting how much (scientific) value can be generated out of a single data release by publication of scientific findings derived from a dataset, algorithms and methods evaluated on this dataset, and/or extensions of this dataset by acquisition and integration of new data.

Proper citation: studyforrest.org (RRID:SCR_003112) Copy   

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http://brainmap.org/

A community database of published functional and structural neuroimaging experiments with both metadata descriptions of experimental design and activation locations in the form of stereotactic coordinates (x,y,z) in Talairach or MNI space. BrainMap provides not only data for meta-analyses and data mining, but also distributes software and concepts for quantitative integration of neuroimaging data. The goal of BrainMap is to develop software and tools to share neuroimaging results and enable meta-analysis of studies of human brain function and structure in healthy and diseased subjects. It is a tool to rapidly retrieve and understand studies in specific research domains, such as language, memory, attention, reasoning, emotion, and perception, and to perform meta-analyses of like studies. Brainmap contains the following software: # Sleuth: database searches and Talairach coordinate plotting (this application requires a username and password) # GingerALE: performs meta-analyses via the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) method; also converts coordinates between MNI and Talairach spaces using icbm2tal # Scribe: database entry of published functional neuroimaging papers with coordinate results

Proper citation: brainmap.org (RRID:SCR_003069) 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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https://osf.io/

Platform to support research and enable collaboration. Used to discover projects, data, materials, and collaborators helpful to your own research.

Proper citation: Open Science Framework (RRID:SCR_003238) 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://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://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://www.nitrc.org/projects/iowa3/

Software for real-time parametric statistical analysis of functional MRI (fMRI) data. The system that combines a general architecture for sampling and time-stamping relevant information channels in fMRI (image acquisition, stimulation, subject responses, cardiac and respiratory monitors, etc.) and an efficient approach to manipulating these data, featuring incremental subsecond multiple linear regression. The advantages of the system are the simplification of event timing and efficient and unified data formatting. Substantial parametric analysis can be performed and displayed in real-time. Immediate (replay) and delayed off-line analysis can also be performed with the same interface. The system provides a time-accounting infrastructure that readily supports standard and innovative approaches to fMRI.

Proper citation: I/OWA (RRID:SCR_000858) Copy   

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http://www.imagescience.org/meijering/software/neuronj/

NeuronJ is an ImageJ plugin to facilitate the tracing and quantification of elongated structures in two-dimensional (2D) images (8-bit gray-scale and indexed color), in particular neurites in fluorescence microscopy images. Sponsors: The development of NeuronJ started while the primary developer ( Dr. Erik Meijering, PhD) was with the Biomedical Imaging Group (collaborating with people from the Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and was finished while Dr. Meijering was with the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Proper citation: NeuronJ: An ImageJ Plugin for Neurite Tracing and Quantification (RRID:SCR_002074) Copy   

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http://brainsia.github.io/BRAINSTools/

Medical image processing software suite for brain analysis.

Proper citation: BRAINSTools (RRID:SCR_006618) Copy   

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

This resource was created to host descriptions of protocols, definitions and rules for the reliable identification and localization of human brain anatomy and discussions of best practices in brain labeling. Project for manual anatomical labeling of human brain MRI data, and the visual presentation of labeled brain images.

Proper citation: BrainColor: Collaborative Open Labeling Online Resource (RRID:SCR_006377) Copy   

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http://www.brainvoyager.com/products/brainvoyagerqx.html

Commercial neuroimaging software package for multi-modal data analysis and management. It has been programmed in C++ with efficient statistical, numerical, and image processing routines. It supports parallelized basic math routines on all platforms and uses modern multi-core, multi-processor hardware for demanding computational routines.

Proper citation: BrainVoyager (RRID:SCR_013057) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/fiber-sig/

Used to analyze the fibers produced by ukf tractography

Proper citation: Fiber Tracking Tool (RRID:SCR_009474) Copy   

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

These are the scripts used for the analyses reported in: Craddock RC, Holtzheimer PE, 3rd, Hu XP, Mayberg HS. (2009): Disease state prediction from resting state functional connectivity. Magn Reson Med 62(6):1619-28. Specifically included are scripts for performing t-test filter, reliability filter, recursive feature elimination, and reliability recursive feature elimination feature selection methods. These make use of wrappers that perform .632 bootstrap and k-fold cross validation strategies. The scripts are written in matlab and require the Bioinformatics toolbox. If you do not have the bioinformatics toolbox, the scripts can be easily modified to run with other matlab SVM toolboxes (i.e., libsvm, svmlight, shogun, etc.).

Proper citation: Disease State Prediction (RRID:SCR_009467) Copy   

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http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/DOT/resources/homer2/home.htm

Software matlab scripts used for analyzing fNIRS data to obtain estimates and maps of brain activation. Graphical user interface (GUI) for visualization and analysis of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data.

Proper citation: Homer2 (RRID:SCR_009586) Copy   

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

This is a command line tool which allows the user to study the behavior of water diffusion (using DTI data) along the length of the white matter fiber-tracts. Various tract-oriented scalar diffusion measures obtained from DTI brain images, are treated as a continuous function of white matter fibers'' arc-length. To analyze the trend along a given fiber tract, a command line tool performs kernel regression on this data. The idea is to try out different noise models and maximum likelihood estimates within kernel windows (along the tract), such that they best represent the data and are robust to noise and Partial Volume effect. The package contains several command line based modules and an GUI based tool called DTIAtlasFiberAnalyzer to access most functions. The features available in the tool currently, its use and input / output formats and other relevant details are provided in the first draft of the documentation. (http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:dtistatisticsfibers).

Proper citation: DTI Fiber Tract Statistics (RRID:SCR_009460) Copy   

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