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ANTsTalk - subject to change at any moment
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Email: antsr.me at gmail dot com
Install ANTs via pre-built: Packages @ github older versions @ sourceforge Github Releases are here thanks to Arman Eshaghi.
Build ANTs from: Source-Code (recommended)
ANTs Dashboard thanks to Arman Eshaghi and Hans J. Johnson
ANTs extracts information from complex datasets that include imaging (Word Cloud). Paired with ANTsR (answer), ANTs is useful for managing, interpreting and visualizing multidimensional data. ANTs is popularly considered a state-of-the-art medical image registration and segmentation toolkit. ANTsR is an emerging tool supporting standardized multimodality image analysis. ANTs depends on the Insight ToolKit (ITK), a widely used medical image processing library to which ANTs developers contribute.
Role: Creator, Algorithm Design, Implementation, more
Role: Compeller, Algorithm Design, Implementation Guru, more
Role: Large-Scale Application, Testing, Software design
Core: Gang Song (Originator), Philip A. Cook, Jeffrey T. Duda (DTI), Ben M. Kandel (Perfusion, multivariate analysis)
Diffeomorphisms: SyN, Independent Evaluation: Klein, Murphy, Template Construction (2004)(2010), Similarity Metrics, Multivariate registration, Multiple modality analysis and statistical bias
Atropos Multivar-EM Segmentation (link), Multi-atlas methods (link), Bias Correction (link), DiReCT cortical thickness (link), DiReCT in chimpanzees
Prior-Based Eigenanatomy (in prep), Sparse CCA (1), (2), Sparse Regression (link)
morphology, GetLargestComponent, CCA, FillHoles ... much more!
Frontotemporal degeneration PENN FTD center
- Structural MRI
- Functional MRI
- Network Analysis
- Structure
- Perfusion MRI
- Branching
Multiple sclerosis (lesion filling) example
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The SyN and N4 bias correction papers and other relevant references in Pubmed
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Visualization: e.g. a gource of ANTs development
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A folder of relevant docs: segmentation, registration, usage(old), for clinical apps
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ANTs redesigned for generality, automation, multi-core computation with ITKv4
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Dev'd ITKv4 with Kitware, GE, Natl. Lib of Medicine & Academia
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New antsRegistration bash example
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New Eigenanatomy for multivariate neuroimage analysis via PCA & CCA
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ANTs finished in 1st rank in Klein 2009 intl. brain mapping competition
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ANTs finished 1st overall in EMPIRE10 intl. lung mapping competition
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ANTs is the standard registration for MICCAI-2013 segmentation competitions
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Conducting ANTs-based R tutorial @ MICCAI-2013
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ITK-focused Frontiers in Neuroinformatics research topic here
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Won the BRATS 2013 challenge with ANTsR
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Won the best paper award at the STACOM 2014 challenge
ANTs and ITK paper
Pre-built ANTs templates with spatial priors download
The ANTs Cortical Thickness Pipeline example
"Cooking" tissue priors for templates example (after you build your template)
Basic Brain Mapping example
Large deformation example
Template construction example
Automobile example
Asymmetry example
Point-set mapping which includes the PSE metric and affine and deformable registration with (labeled) pointsets or iterative closest point
Feature matching example ... not up to date ...
Chimpanzee cortical thickness example
Global optimization example
Morphing example
fMRI or Motion Correction example
fMRI reproducibility example
fMRI prediction example ... WIP ...
Cardiac example
Brain extraction example
N4 bias correction <-> segmentation example
Cortical thickness example
MALF labeling example example
Bibliography bibtex of ANTs-related papers
ANTs google scholar page
Presentations: e.g. a Prezi about ANTs (WIP)
Reproducible science as a teaching tool: e.g. compilable ANTs tutorial (WIP)
Other examples slideshow
Landmark-based mapping for e.g. hippocampus discussed here
Brief ANTs segmentation video
Here is some boilerplate regarding ants image processing:
We will analyze multiple modality neuroimaging data with Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs) version >= 2.1 [1] (http://stnava.github.io/ANTs/). ANTs has proven performance in lifespan analyses of brain morphology [1] and function [2] in both adult [1] and pediatric brain data [2,5,6] including infants [7]. ANTs employs both probabilistic tissue segmentation (via Atropos [3]) and machine learning methods based on expert labeled data (via joint label fusion [4]) in order to maximize reliability and consistency of multiple modality image segmentation. These methods allow detailed extraction of critical image-based biomarkers such as volumes (e.g. hippocampus and amygdala), cortical thickness and area and connectivity metrics derived from structural white matter [13] or functional connectivity [12]. Critically, all ANTs components are capable of leveraging multivariate image features as well as expert knowledge in order to learn the best segmentation strategy available for each individual image [3,4]. This flexibility in segmentation and the underlying high-performance normalization methods have been validated by winning several internationally recognized medical image processing challenges conducted within the premier conferences within the field and published in several accompanying articles [8][9][10][11].
References
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24879923
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24817849
[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21373993
[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21237273
[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22517961
[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24033570
[7] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24139564
[8] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21632295
[9] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19195496
[10] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837555/
[11] http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~koen/MenzeTMI2014.pdf
[12] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23813017
[13] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24830834
ANTs was supported by: R01-EB006266-01 and by K01-ES025432-01