3rd Party Diffusion MRI Software
This page is a repository for information about programs that other people have written to process and visualize diffusion MRI data. By examining features of these other programs, we may get inspiration for improvements in our own work.
| Name | Platform | src | inst | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FSL | Lin, Win, Mac | Y | Y | GUI, plus CLI for individual processing steps. Contains FLIRT, etc. |
| Camino | Java | Y | Y | No GUI. CLI for individual processing steps, connected by Unix pipes. Diverse collection of algorithmic alternatives. |
| Trackvis and Diffusion Toolkit | Lin, Win, Mac | N | Y | Equivalent, respectively, to Brainapp and the diffusion processing pipeline, plus a GUI for the latter. Handles Q-ball imaging as well as DTI. Developed at MGH. |
| XMedCon | Lin, Win | Y | Y | Command-line converter for various medical imaging file formats. |
| 3D Slicer | Lin, Win, Mac | Y | N | |
| MedINRIA | Lin, Win, Mac | N | N | |
| DTI-Query | Lin, Win, Mac | Y | N | |
| CINCH | Lin, Win, Mac | N | N | |
| MRI Studio (formerly DTI Studio) | Win | N | N | Interactive GUI to read/write images, compute DTIs and tractography, and create ROIs. Supposedly also includes Mori, et al.'s 2008 multi-subject DTI-based WM atlas. |
| Freesurfer | Lin, Mac | N | N | GUI, plus CLI for individual processing steps. |
| Brain Voyager | Lin, Win, Mac | N | N | Yet another diffusion MRI GUI program. Commercial license for all users. |
| AMIDE | Lin, Win | Y | N | Graphical tool similar to FSL for viewing, registration, etc. |
| SPM | Matlab | Y | N | Designed for data sequences, as found in fMRI studies. |
| AFNI | Lin, Mac | Y | N | A GUI tool like Slicer mainly designed for fMRI data. |
See Also
- 3rd Party Visualization Software, which includes toolkits whose functionality is a superset of diffusion MRI processing.
- NITRC, the NIH's Sourceforge-like repository of neuroimaging software
- IDoImaging.com, a database of freeware medical imaging programs and libraries