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The visualization and exploration of neuroimaging data are important for the analysis of anatomical and functional images and statistical parametric maps. While two-dimensional orthogonal views of neuroimaging data are used to display activity and statistical analysis, real three-dimensional (3D) depictions are helpful for showing the spatial distribution of a functional network, as well as its temporal evolution. For our best knowledge, currently, there is no neuroimaging 3D tool which can visualize both MEG, fMRI and invasive electrodes (ECOG, depth electrodes, DBS, etc.). Here we present the Multi-Modality Visualization Tool (MMVT). The tool was built for researchers who wish to have a better understanding of their neuroimaging anatomical and functional data. The true power of the tool is by visualizing and analyzing data from multi-modalities. MMVT is built as two separated modules: The first is implemented as an add-on in 'Blender”, an open-source 3D visualization software. The add-on is an interactive graphical interface which enables to visualize functional and statistical data (MEG and/or fMRI) on the cortex and subcortical surfaces, invasive electrodes activity and etc. The tool can also be used for a better 3D visualization of the anatomical data and the invasive electrodes locations. The other module is a standalone software, for importing and preprocessing. The users can select the data they want to import to Blender and how they want to process it.
The module supports many types of analyzed data:
- FsFast (FreeSurfer Functional Analysis Stream)
- SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping)
- MNE (a software package for processing MEG and EEG)
- MEG raw data (fif files)
- FieldTrip (MATLAB software toolbox for neuroimaging analysis)
The users can also reprocess raw data using wrappers for FaFast and mne-python (a python package for sensor and source-space analysis of MEG and EEG data).
Please go through the installation in this wiki page.
After the installation, you'll enter the yet-not-documented territory. please contact us: [email protected] or [email protected]
The tool itself can run on windows, mac and linux. If you want to connect it to freeview, you'll need to run it only on freesurfer compatible os, meaning linux and mac. Also in the preprocessing tool there are few call to freesurfer, so mainly to create the anatomy files you'll need an os that supports freesurfer. Beside of that, you can use the tool also on windows.
We've imported colin27 into MMVT, and included data we morphed from a patient. The data includes recording from EEG, MEG, fMRI, and sEEG for the MSIT task. The data can be downloaded from here (1GB). Extract the zip file in the mmvt_blend folder which was created in your mmvt_root folder. Then, open Blender, close the splash screen and open (File->open) colin's blend file (colin27_laus125.blend). After that, you'll need to press space anywhere on the screen, write "run mmvt" and press enter. We've also written several self-explanatory tasks for this data, that can be found here (feel free the add comments). Few Blender shortcuts you should know:
- Rotate the brain using the middle mouse button.
- Select objects (electrodes / sensors / cortical lables) using the right mouse button. To select cortical labels you need to change first the view to "ROIs" in the Appearence panel.
- Zoom in/out using the mouse scrolling.
The features can be seen here
- Ohad Felsenstein ([email protected])
- Noam Peled ([email protected])
This tool is being developed as part of the Transform DBS project. It's sponsored by:
- The U.S. Army Research Office and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-14-2-0045.
- The NCRR (S10RR014978) and NIH (S10RR031599,R01-NS069696, 5R01-NS060918, U01MH093765)
MMVT is BSD-licenced (3 clause):
This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
Copyright (c) 2016, authors of MMVT
All rights reserved.
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