Ratings & Reviews   User Reviews  ( 6 )   
Overall: 4 out of 5Installation: 4.5 out of 5Documentation: 3.5 out of 5
Individual Rating Results for BRAINSTools

Review 6 of BRAINSTools on Oct 20, 2009
Version Reviewed:  1.X
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  4 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  4 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  Good for volumetric analysis and segmentation. Good documentation. Not free.
Review 5 of BRAINSTools on Jun 19, 2009
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  3 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  3 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  3 out of 5
Review 4 of BRAINSTools on Jul 02, 2008
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  5 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  5 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  5 out of 5
Review 3 of BRAINSTools on Jul 01, 2008
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  4 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  4 out of 5
Review 2 of BRAINSTools on Jun 03, 2008
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  5 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  3 out of 5
Ratings/Long-term Prospects Comments:  Overall -- Really rather easy to build ITK projects wrapped in Tcl.  Installation -- User needs to be careful what version of cmake is selected by the PATH environment variable directory list order. Succeeded when building on both MacOSX and Linux.  Documentation -- Given that BRAINS is presently under development, the lack of a nailed down specification for the moving target is completely understandable. There is induced documentary knowledge from familiarity with ITK and with brains2, the predecessor of BRAINS.  Long-term -- A sound, high-quality, scriptable structural imaging toolkit that plays well with Slicer3 and ITK data is a valuable project that will help with registering functional and diffusion-tensor images to the anatomical scan of each subject. It is also nice when scripting to work in a common vehicle for a variety of image operations.  Feature Requests -- Needs a visualizer. Brains2 has one. Slicer3 has one.  
Other Comments/Similar Tools:  Similar Tool/Resource -- brains2  Tool/Resource Transition -- ITK lacks a way to "split a mask".  
Review 1 of BRAINSTools on Feb 26, 2008
Overall Ease vs. Functionality:  4 out of 5
Download/Installation Ease:  5 out of 5
Documentation/Support Quality:  3 out of 5