News: iBEAT (Infant Brain Extraction and Analysis Toolbox) is also now available online (http://www.ibeat.cloud/), which is re-developed with more advanced techniques. Users can process any age of infant structural images via uploading images into the iBEAT cloud (http://www.ibeat.cloud/).

Main functions of the software (step by step) include image preprocessing, brain extraction, tissue segmentation and brain labeling. The software is developed by the IDEA group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, directed by Dr. Dinggang Shen(dinggang_shen@med.unc.edu).

Linux operating system (64 bit) is required. A workstation or server with memory > 8G is recommended for processing many images simultaneously. The graphical user interfaces and overall framework of the software are implemented in MATLAB. The image processing functions are implemented with the combination of C/C++, MATLAB, Perl and Shell languages. Parallelization technologies are used in the software to speed up image processing.