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