Greg's Adventures in Brain-Mapping
After four years working in a lab devoted to the functional
mapping of the human brain, I did learn a few things about how all
that stuff works. I even wrote or co-wrote some useful software for
analyzing the data. In chronological order:
- EMMA,
a MATLAB library for working with medical image in MINC
files; somewhat biased towards analysing dynamic PET studies.
Conceived by Sean Marrett and co-written by Mark Wolforth and
me. Maintained for several years by me; now unmaintained
(AFAIK).
- MNI AutoReg (automated registration package); really Louis
Collins' baby, I just rewrote a big ugly Perl script into a big
less-ugly Perl script, and did a lot of debugging, porting, and
release mechanics.
- the MNI Perl Library: a handful of Perl modules for writing
"glorified shell scripts", i.e. Perl programs that mostly run
other programs, presumably long-running low-level
number-crunchers which must be run in a carefully controlled and
logged way, and whose failures must be avoided if possible, and
dealt with robustly when they do happen