<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear all,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are very happy to announce another major release of Diffusion Imaging in Python (<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Dipy</span>). </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://dipy.org/" target="_blank">http://<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">dipy</span>.org</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Here we list some of the major new features:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><b>0.7.1 </b>(Thursday, 16 Jan 2014)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Reconstruction</b><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>* Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD).<br>
</div><div>* Simple Harmonic Oscillator based Reconstruction and Estimation (SHORE).</div><div>* Sharpening Deconvolution Transform (SDT).</div><div>* Signal-to-noise ratio estimation.</div></div><div><div>* RESTORE fitting for DTI.</div>
<div>* Westin's Tensor maps.</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Tracking</b></div><div><br></div><div>* Enabled automated seeding in masks.</div><div>* Streamline filtering through specific ROIs using `target`.<br></div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Segmentation</b></div><div><br></div><div>* Brain and foreground extraction using median_otsu.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Visualization</b></div><div><br></div><div>* Streamtube visualization.</div>
<div>* Simultaneous peaks and ODF visualization.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Connectivity </b></div><div><br></div><div>* Connectivity matrices and density maps.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Parallel processing</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>* Parallel processing is possible for all reconstruction models using `peaks_from_model`.<br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Data access</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>* Access to more publicly available datasets directly through <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Dipy</span> functions.<b><br>
</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div><b>Installation</b><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>* Installing <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Dipy</span> is now easier and more universal.</div><div>* Available with pip, easy_install, neurodebian and other methods.<br>
</div><div><span style="font-size:small"> </span><a href="http://dipy.org/installation.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:small">http://dipy.org/installation.html</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><b>Overall</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>* 3x more tutorials than previous release.</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://dipy.org/examples_index.html" target="_blank">http://dipy.org/examples_index.html</a></font><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* 2x more contributors from the previous release.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://dipy.org/developers.html" target="_blank">http://dipy.org/developers.html</a></font><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yours sincerely,<br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">On behalf of all <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Dipy</span> developers</div><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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