BrainVoyager 22 - Part 1: BV Notebooks

An important aspect of BrainVoyager development in recent yeas is the support of reproducible data analysis. An important feature in this direction was the introduction of the Data Analysis Manager enabling easy specification of analysis pipelines for small or large studies with consistent parameter sets. BrainVoyager 22 goes a big step further by introducing BrainVoyager Notebooks or BV Notebooks for short. Inspired by Jupyter notebooks, BV notebooks provide sharable rich interactive documents containing code, explanatory text, images and animations

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BrainVoyager 21 - BIDS, Defacing, 3D Viewer and Dark Mode

While version 21 of BrainVoyager has more visible changes of the user interface than many previous releases, the development has focused on support for open standards, reproducible data pipelines and the foundation for supporting compute server backends. Furthermore, a content-focused dark interface and a new powerful graphics engine has been developed to further increase BrainVoyager's visualisation capabilities…

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Cluster-Size Thresholding in BrainVoyager

Update July 21, 2017: The just released 20.6 version of BrainVoyager includes a randomisation plugin for nonparametric permutation inference.
The paper "Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates" by Eklund and colleagues received a lot of attention this summer pointing out that fMRI software packages do not correctly perform multiple comparisons correction of statistical maps when using cluster-extent based thresholding for group analyses…

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BrainVoyager 20 - A Milestone Release

I am happy to present to you BrainVoyager 20, which is an important milestone introducing powerful new tools and interface elements that make it even easier to analyze and visualize neuroimaging data sets in a comprehensive, easy to use software package. With a new data analysis manager and a new Python interface (see below), BrainVoyager 20 (BV 20) sets the stage for future releases that will build on and extent the current implementation. BV 20 also introduces a new software-based licensing model that provides more flexible, subscription based software activation. The importance of this release is indicated already…

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Brain Tutor HD 2.1 for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

Brain Tutor HD 1.0 has become quite popular as indicated by top-10 rankings in the "Education" category in several App Stores around the world during the last year. While some users asked for more features, there were no bug reports and I was, thus, not forced to submit maintenance releases. A few months ago I have started on other iOS apps (more on this in a future blog post) that used some new features of the iOS 5 API (see below). When this work was done, I decided to rewrite large parts of Brain Tutor HD so that it would…

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