PANDA: a pipeline toolbox for analyzing brain diffusion images

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is widely used in both scientific research and clinical practice in in-vivo studies of the human brain. While a number of post-processing packages have been developed, fully automated processing of dMRI datasets remains challenging. Here, we developed a MATLAB toolbox named "Pipeline for Analyzing braiN Diffusion imAges" (PANDA) for fully automated processing of brain diffusion images. The processing modules of a few established packages, including FMRIB Software Library (FSL), Pipeline System for Octave and Matlab (PSOM), Diffusion Toolkit and MRIcron, were employed in PANDA. Using any number of raw dMRI datasets from different subjects, in either DICOM or NIfTI…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 81271649, 81030028
• SK
  State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning
• BN
  Beijing Nova Program

  Award: Z121110002512032
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2013CB837300