Tool/Resource: Anima - News

Anima v4.2 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:27:51 GMT

We are happy to announce the release of version 4.2 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools) ! This is a feature update and bug-fix release to Anima v4.1.1. Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Anima v4.1.1 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:49:51 GMT

We are happy to announce the release of version 4.1.1 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools) ! This is a bug-fix release to Anima v4.1. Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Anima v4.1 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:43:36 GMT

We are happy to announce the release of version 4.1 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools) ! This is a feature update release with along tracts statistics tools. Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Anima v4.0.1 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:23:47 GMT

We are happy to announce the release of version 4.0 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools), has been released ! This is a bug fix release with some bug corrections plus an update of deterministic tractography. Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Anima v4.0 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 14:45:51 GMT

We are happy to announce the release of version 4.0 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools), has been released ! This is a major release with a focus on making algorithms faster, updating major dependencies and introducing a new website and documentation. Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Anima v3.4 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:13:12 GMT

Version 3.3 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools), has been released ! This is a minor release with a focus on major bugs correction and new DWI simulation and majority voting tools. Changes include (but are not limited to):

- Correct memory leak that was affecting all registration tools
- Correct long running Levenberg Marquardt optimization bug in MCM estimation (introduces an all new bounded LM optimizer)
- Switch back to previous mutli-threading scheme as ITK 5 one is not that great
- Add binary versions of DWI simulation from diffusion tensors or multi-compartment models (animaDWISimulatorFromDTI and animaDWISimulationFromMCM)
- Add a majority voting tool (animaMajorityLabelVoting)
- New release of Anima scripts v2.2 along with this release
- Other minor bug corrections

Anima v3.3 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:08:56 GMT

Version 3.3 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools), has been released ! This is a minor release with a focus on ITK5, updated relaxometry and tractography tools. Changes include (but are not limited to):

- Switch to ITK 5
- Switch to C++17 standard (now required for some tools)
- Much faster implementation of some relaxometry tools including animaGMMT2RelaxometryEstimation
- DTI tractography closer to the article of Weinstein et al., 1999
- New release of Anima scripts v2.1 along with this release
- minor bug corrections

Anima v3.2 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:20:31 GMT

Version 3.2 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools), has been released ! This is a minor release for the ISMRM conference with a focus on new relaxometry and registration tools published there. Changes include (but are not limited to):

- Among new things are the following:

- Sparse initialization for multi-compartment models estimation
- Addition of Stanisz isotropic compartment model
- Possibility to add priors to MS lesion graph cuts segmentation
- Change transformation default extrapolation in non linear registration
- Addition of validation tools used for the MICCAI MSSEG 2016 challenge
- animaDetectedComponents, animaSegPerfAnalyzer
- Addition of some basic tools:
- linear transformation to stationary velocity field
- output of nearest rigid transform in linear registration
- image resolution changer tool
- New release of Anima scripts v2.0 along with this release
- Other minor bug corrections/evolutions

Binary release download link: https://www.nitrc.org/frs/?group_id=973
Source code link (and documentation wiki): https://github.com/Inria-Visages/Anima-Public

Anima v3.1 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:52:51 GMT

Version 3.1 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools), has been released ! This is a minor release for the ISMRM conference with a focus on new relaxometry and registration tools published there. Changes include (but are not limited to):

- New multi-compartment T2 and myelin water fraction estimation tool with fixed Gaussian PDF parameters from relaxometry sequences
- Addition of a new transformation type for linear registration: constrained affine transformation along a direction. Also better default initialization testing, and closest rigid transformation export
- Addition of a NODDI compartment to MCM estimation
- Faster MCM estimation, more optimization algorithms available
- Correct rare errors in DTI and MCM registration algorithms
- Other minor bug corrections/evolutions

Binary release download link: https://www.nitrc.org/frs/?group_id=973
Source code link (and documentation wiki): https://github.com/Inria-Visages/Anima-Public

Anima v3.0 released

ocommowi@www.nitrc.org (Olivier Commowick) — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:49:29 GMT

Version 3.0 of Anima, a set of ITK/VTK based libraries and multi-platform command line tools for medical image analysis (image registration, EPI distortion correction, statistical analysis, diffusion imaging, quantitative MRI processing, image denoising and segmentation tools), has been released ! This is a major release with a focus on relaxometry tools, changes include (but are not limited to):

- New T2 and B1 estimation of mono-component T2 relaxation times from relaxometry sequences
- New multi-compartment T2 and myelin water fraction estimation tools from relaxometry sequences
- Update tractography algorithms (probabilistic tractography does not use DWI images anymore, output compatible with medInria 3.0)
- Add Taquet et al similarity metrics for multi-tensors registration
- Correct border handling errors in DTI and MCM registration algorithms
- Add isosurface extraction tool from binary segmentation
- Correct rare errors in DTI estimation filter
- Update Eddy current experimental tool to handle well movement correction and distortion (the first one being applied to gradients, not the second one)
- Other minor bug corrections/evolutions

Binary release download link: https://www.nitrc.org/frs/?group_id=973
Source code link (and documentation wiki): https://github.com/Inria-Visages/Anima-Public