Software Tools for the Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the most popular method for imaging of brain functions. Currently, there is a large variety of software packages for the analysis of fMRI data, each providing many features for users. Since there is no single package that can provide all the necessary analyses for the fMRI data, it is helpful to know the features of each software package. In this paper, several software tools have been introduced and they have been evaluated for comparison of their functionality and their features. The description of each program has been discussed and summarized.

Keywords

• fMRI Software Packages
• Preprocessing
• Segmentation
• Visualization
• Registration.