NeuroUbuntu is an environment for learning brain image analysis. Neuroubuntu provides unified environment for students interested in structural and functional brain analysis. Software tools and sample datasets are included in the package together with interactive visual tutorials.

  1. Introduction
  2. About
  3. Download
  4. Contact

Introduction

Welcome to NeuroUbuntu, a free and easy-to-use, environment for teaching and learning neuroimaging. Environment is based on customised liveCD based on Ubuntu linux distribution, armed with free and open-source brain image analysis tools with accompanying training datasets and visual Flash tutorials. NeuroUbuntu is designed to be a teaching aid for introducing magnetic resonance imaging, structural and functional brain analysis for students of cognitive neuroscience.  Tutorials are intended to help the  student to perform the experiments on their own and guide teacher in planning practical sessions focused on introduction to quantitative neuroimaging. List of tutorials is an ongoing project. If you would like to contribute your brain imaging software, dataset or tutorial feel free to contact the authors.

About the Authors

NeuroUbuntu was developed in mid-2007 by Mikolaj A. Pawlak MD PhD and Krzysztof Gorgolewski BSc. Mikolaj Pawlak is currently postdoctoral research fellow at the Neuroradiology Research Division, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania and Krzysztof Gorgolewski is pursuing his MSc/PhD studies at Neuroinformatics program at the Univesity of Edinburgh.
Project was developed during free open course "Introduction to Brain Imaging" organized by Mikolaj Pawlak at the Institute of Psychology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. 

Download

Latest version of NeuroUbuntu is v0.4. 

Once you downloaded the *.iso file containing the disk image of the liveCD burn it on blank CD disk. Then put the disk in the drive and reboot the computer. Make sure that the bios is set up to boot from the CD first. Once you boot from the CD your learning environment is ready to use.

List of software packages included in the liveCD

  • mricon 
  • mricro
  • ImageJ
  • Mipav 
  • FSL (4.0) 
  • Diffusion toolkit 
  • DTI query 
  • Camino 
  • K-PACS 
  • ez-dicom 
  • ImageTool 
  • Wink 
  • Audacity 
  • Virtual MRI scanner 
  • xmedcon and medcon 
  • FEmap

Neuroubuntu Wiki

Contact

Let us know what you think about this project and whether you find it a useful tool. We welcome feedback from students and teachers interested in using NeuroUbuntu in educational projects and courses. Contact us at:
pawlakm <at> uphs <dot> upenn <dot>edu
k <dot> j <dot> gorgolewski <at> sms <dot> ed <dot> ac <dot> uk