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 A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows user (computing), users to human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through Graphics, graphical icon (computing), icons and visual indicators such ...

offers a

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-like

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. The software is available under the

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and runs under

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. 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 res ...

History

The origins of the CamBA

software repository A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for Package format, software packages. Often a table of contents is also stored, along with metadata. A software repository is typically managed by source or version control, or rep ...

begin in 1996 at the

Institute of Psychiatry The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a centre for mental health and neuroscience research, education and training in Europe. It is dedicated to understanding, preventing and treating mental illness, neurological co ...

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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 and was Head of the Department of Psychiatry between 2014 ...

and Professor Mick Brammer wrote a small package of

software components Component-based software engineering (CBSE), also called component-based development (CBD), is a style of software engineering that aims to construct a software system from components that are loosely-coupled and reusable. This emphasizes the sep ...

to process

data, which at that time was an

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. 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 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to generate pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and rad ...

images and between-subject

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

, based on randomisation methods. The CamBA initiative began in 2006. Instead of a library of functions, CamBA is better described as a

. 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

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* * {{SourceForge, camba, CamBA Medical imaging in the United Kingdom Medical imaging organizations Neuroimaging Neuroimaging software Free health care software Organisations associated with the University of Cambridge

History

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