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  <description>PANDA: a pipeline tool for diffusion MRI Latest News</description>
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   <title>The dMRI data processing toolbox PANDA v1.3.0 was released</title>
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   <description>The diffusion MRI data processing toolbox PANDA v1.3.0 (http://www.nitrc.org/projects/panda/) was released.&lt;br /&gt;
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PANDA (Pipeline for Analyzing braiN Diffusion imAges) is a matlab toolbox for pipeline processing of diffusion MRI images. For each subject, PANDA can provide outputs in 2 types: i) diffusion parameter data that is ready for statistical analysis; ii) brain anatomical networks constructed by using diffusion tractography. Particularly, there are 3 types of resultant diffusion parameter data: WM atlas-level, voxel-level and TBSS-level. The brain network generated by PANDA has various edge definitions, e.g. fiber number, length, FA or probability-weighted. &lt;br /&gt;
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Some new features were added in this version:&lt;br /&gt;
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I. Improvements in data analysis&lt;br /&gt;
1. Using the average of all the B0 images as reference for eddycurrent correction.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Statistical analysis and results display GUI for TBSS analysis.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Combining TBSS and white matter atlas to calculate the average value of skeleton image in each ROI, the results can be statistically analysed using SPSS.&lt;br /&gt;
4. T1 template can be defined by the user in the network node definition part.&lt;br /&gt;
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II. New Utilities&lt;br /&gt;
1. Utility Cluster Locator for localizing the statistically significant areas.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Utility White Matter Mask for calculating white matter mask using FA images of all subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Utility ROI-mask Extractor for extracting ROI from prior atlas.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Utility Between-atlas Mapping for mapping high-resolution atlas to anatomical atlas, such as mapping random 1024 atlas to the 90 AAL atlas.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Utility ROI-mean Extractor for calculating average value of an image in the mask.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Utility Merge NIfTI for merging multiple 3D images into a 4D image.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Utility Image Smoother for smoothing NIFTI images.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Adding two parameters (-S: eye &amp;amp; optic nerve cleanup, and –B: bias field &amp;amp; neck cleanup) for Utility Brain Extraction (T1).&lt;br /&gt;
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III. Others&lt;br /&gt;
1. Fixing some bugs in previous version&lt;br /&gt;
2. Writing a detailed manual document which elaborates the questions asked by the users before.</description>
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   <dc:creator>Zaixu Cui</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 1:29:44 GMT</dc:date>
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   <title>The new version of PANDA was released</title>
   <link>http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3838</link>
   <description>PANDA (Pipeline for Analyzing braiN Diffusion imAges) is a matlab toolbox for pipeline processing of diffusion MRI images. For each subject, PANDA can provide outputs in 2 types: i) diffusion parameter data that is ready for statistical analysis; ii) brain anatomical networks constructed by using diffusion tractography. Particularly, there are 3 types of resultant diffusion parameter data: WM atlas-level, voxel-level and TBSS-level. The brain network generated by PANDA has various edge definitions, e.g. fiber number, length, FA or probability-weighted. &lt;br /&gt;
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Now, the version 2 of PANDA has been finished, in which a few bugs are fixed and many new functions (http://code.google.com/p/panda-tool/) are added.&lt;br /&gt;
In addition, we have made a mailing list (http://www.nitrc.org/mailman/listinfo/panda-commits) for PANDA. We will send update information of PANDA through this mailing list in the future.  Please join in the mailling list if you like.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks for your interests and supports on our work!</description>
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   <dc:creator>Zaixu Cui</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 3:43:25 GMT</dc:date>
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