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Published in final edited form as: Comput Biol Med. 2010 Nov 18;41(12):1062–1072. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.10.008

Table 2.

A list of MRI image analysis tools that can be used for data conversion, preparion and tissue segmentation.

Image Processing Package Purpose Web Location
AFNI Analysis of Functional NeuroImages http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/doc/misc/
BrainSuite
BrainParser
Volume Segmentation And Parcellation http://www.loni.ucla.edu/Software/BrainSuite
http://www.loni.ucla.edu/Software/BrainParser
Brain Visa Q-ball
T1w-segement
DTI-tracking
http://brainvisa.info/
http://www.nitrc.org/projects/brainvisa/
CRUISE Volume Segmentation http://www.nitrc.org/projects/toads-cruise/
JIST Java Image Science Toolkit. Handles multi tensors http://www.nitrc.org/projects/jist/
ICBM Brain Atlases and software http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ICBM/Resources/Resources_Software.shtml
ImageJ Image Processing and Analysis in Java http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
FreeSurfer Surface and volume parcellaltion http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/
FSL
BET
FIRST-FAST
Brain Masking Segmentation http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/bet2/index.html
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/first/
MEDInria Image Processing http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/software/MedINRIA/
MRIcro
MRIcron
Includes BET
Tools for preprocessing, visualizing and converting data types *.nii, analyze, dicom http://www.mricro.com
http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/anatomy/index.htm
MIPAV Medical Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization http://mipav.cit.nih.gov/
Slicer Open source package for visualization and medical image computation http://www.slicer.org/
SPM fMRI, smoothing/VBM http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/ext/#toolboxes