Cambridge Brain Analysis (CamBA), is a software repository developed at the Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry,

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, UK and contains software pipelines for

functional magnetic resonance imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area o ...

(fMRI) analysis. It is designed for

batch processing Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically. While users are required to submit the jobs, no other interaction by the user is required to process the batch. Batches may automatically ...

and its main

graphical user interface The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...

offers a

spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in cel ...

-like

look-and-feel In software design, the look and feel of a graphical user interface comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces (the "look"), as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxe ...

. The software is available under the

GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the Four Freedoms (Free software), four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was th ...

and runs under

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

. Up-to-date information is available at the

Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse The Neuroimaging Tools and Resources CollaboratoryNITRC is a neuroimaging informatics knowledge environment for MR, PET/SPECT, CT, EEG/MEG, optical imaging, clinical neuroinformatics, imaging genomics, and computational neuroscience tools and reso ...

History

The origins of the CamBA software repository begin in 1996 at the Institute of Psychiatry,

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, UK. Professor

Edward Bullmore Edward Thomas Bullmore, (born 27 September 1960) is a British Neuropsychiatrist, neuroscientist and academic. Since 1999, he has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. In 2005, he also became Vice-President of Experimental ...

and Professor Mick Brammer wrote a small package of

software components Component-based software engineering (CBSE), also called component-based development (CBD), is a branch of software engineering that emphasizes the separation of concerns with respect to the wide-ranging functionality available throughout a give ...

to process

data, which at that time was an emerging technology. In 1999 Dr John Sucklinghttp://www-bmu.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/people/~js369 became involved in the first effort to coordinate and organise the software including options for processing structural MRI images and between-subject

statistical inference Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying probability distribution, distribution of probability.Upton, G., Cook, I. (2008) ''Oxford Dictionary of Statistics'', OUP. . Inferential statistical ...

, based on

randomisation Randomization is the process of making something random. Randomization is not haphazard; instead, a random process is a sequence of random variables describing a process whose outcomes do not follow a deterministic pattern, but follow an evolution d ...

methods. The CamBA initiative began in 2006. Instead of a library of functions, CamBA is better described as a software repository. It is an

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RCP-based application and contains a number of pipelines which are constructed from software modules contributed by a variety of authors using a common

ontology In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality. Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exis ...

References

External links

* * {{SourceForge, camba, CamBA
Brain Mapping Unit (BMU)

List of academic publications on CamBA
Neuroimaging Neuroimaging software Free health care software Organisations associated with the University of Cambridge

History

See also

References

External links