BrainImage Software

BrainImage is an advanced 2D and 3D image processing and analysis program for the Apple Macintosh computers that has been developed in our Laboratory over the past several years. BrainImage was based on the code for the public domain application, NIH Image, a program that has been extensively developed and modified over the past several years through the efforts of Wayne Rasband of the NIMH. Because of its clear, understandable user-interface and broad array of features, NIH Image is utilized by thousands of scientists in the U.S. and abroad.

Although a significant number of advanced features specific to processing and analysis of three-dimensional MRI data have been added to BrainImage, it retains the original intuitive user-interface and features of NIH Image, including built-in procedures and functions that can be accessed with a Pascal-like macro programming language. Such macros allow the end-user to rapidly and automatically repeat and/or combine procedures or functions that otherwise would be quite time-consuming if performed manually and sequentially. Recent work on this software also includes the incorporation of several new interactive procedures for 3D MRI quantification.

Despite the fact that the current version of BrainImage is quite mature, an important software-related goal of the CIBSR is the development of a multi-platform, cross-operating system version of our medical imaging software.

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