[Mristudio-users] Computational Anatomy Works (CAWorks) - LDDMM Region of Interest Processing

[akolasny at jhu.edu]

Computational Anatomy Works (CAWorks) Software Announcement

CAWorks is available through mristudio.org under:

   https://www.mristudio.org/download/binaries/caworks/

The software application Computational Anatomy Works (CAWorks) was
developed to support Computational Anatomy and shape analysis. The
capabilities of CAWorks include:

   1. Interactive landmark placement to create segmentation (mask) of
desired region of interest

   2. Specialized landmark placement plugins for subcortical structures
such as hippocampus and amygdala

   3. Support for multiple Medical Imaging data formats, such as Nifti,
Analyze, Freesurfer, DICOM and landmark data

   4. Quadra Planar view visualization

   5. Shape Analysis plugin modules, such as Large Deformation
Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM)

Current enhancements to CAWorks have focused on interactive support for
landmarking of subcortical structures. Specific plugins are available for
landmark placement of the hippocampus, amygdala and entorhinal cortex
regions. After landmarking is completed, CAWorks facilitates submission
for automated segmentation processing. CAWorks is being used by the
Biomarkers for Older Controls At Risk for Dementia (BIOCARD), Resource for
Quantitative Functional MRI: TRD4, Validation of Structural/Functional MRI
Localization and Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) projects.

CAWorks extends ParaView, an open source, multi-platform, freely available
program for parallel, interactive, scientific visualization. An important
visualization tool for TeraGrid researchers, its client-server
architecture facilitates remote visualization of datasets and the
generation of level of detail (LOD) models that maintain interactive frame
rates for large datasets.

Tutorials describing CAWorks for the ROI feature are located at:

    http://caportal.cis.jhu.edu/tutorials


If you have questions regarding this software, please put CAWorks in your
subject line for the mristudio-users mailing list.

Thanks!
CAWorks Development Team