MRIcron
- Paul Macey (admin)
MRIcron is a nifti visualization program that we used for 20 years. It ccan quickly display nifit images, and also has a VOI drawing tool, and a dicom to nifti converter (dcm2nii). As of 2020, the development has shifted to MRIcroGL.
These programs are written by Chris Rorden - Paul swapped emails with him and working on some testing together.
Notes from github
Future
MRIcron is robust and stable, but development efforts have moved to MRIcroGL. The primary disadvantage of MRIcroGL is that it requires support hardware accelerated OpenGL 3.3 graphics. Therefore, MRIcron remains useful for users of older computers or when connecting to remote supercomputer clusters. These users may also consider fsleyes which can be set up to only require OpenGL 1.4 and indirect rendering.
The latest releases of MRIcron only include the MRIcron viewer and the dcm2niix image converter. Once upon a time, the software was distributed with statistics (NPM) and legacy image converter (dcm2nii). One can still download old releases of MRIcron from NITRC or compile these legacy tools (see next section).
NPM is a tool for non parametric analysis of neuroimaging lesion data. dcm2nii is designed for converting the complicated DICOM format used in medical imaging to the simple NIfTI format preferred by scientists. These tools are mature and hopefully robust but no longer in active development.