[Mristudio-users] Computational Anatomy Works (CAWorks) Software Beta 48 Announcement

[joeh at cis.jhu.edu]

Computational Anatomy Works (CAWorks) Software Beta 48 Announcement

CAWorks beta 48 is now available for windows 32 and 64 bit, mac osx, and
linux 32 and 64 bit

The new version includes


Addition of multiple contour display on data slices for volume and surfaces

Improvements to contour slices display to optimize colors as well as

further optimization of color space seperation for multiple surface display

Addition of heart landmark type

Improvements to anaylze and nifti reader and writers

Bug fixes and improvements for freesurfer file readers and writers and itk
filters

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