Source distributions of the Cohen lab image processing utilities

This page describes the procedure for accessing the source distributions of the imaging utilities developed for the Cohen lab at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center.

These tools were created primarily for internal use, but are distributed from our web site as an aid to other groups.

This software is made available AS IS and no warranty is made as to its accuracy or performance.

Unlimited academic use of this software is granted, except that the any publications that derive from its use, or any new software that incorporates its underlying sources or algorithms must specifically acknowledge the author. Modification of the program to meet local needs is encouraged, but all such changes are to be communicated to the author to support the continued growth of these tools.

Commercial, for-profit, use of the sources or algorithms is expressly prohibited without permission of the author.

Unless otherwise stated, I do not offer technical support beyond that found on the Brain Mapping Center support pages.

Finding the programs

Most of the useful tools are documented on our "HowTo" pages at http://airto.hosted.ats.ucla.edu/BMCweb/HowTo/. Links from that page discuss the logic and operations of the programs. The HowTo section also covers numerous day-to-day questions of scanner operation. Please note that this area is now (8-7-03) in a state of flux, as our new scanning equipment is coming on line.

In most cases, the links here will bring you to a page describing the utility. Those pages, in turn, will have links to the source files. You may have to hunt a bit on the page to find them.

We now (1/31/04) have a central distribution site for the programs and their required libraries at:
http://airto.hosted.ats.ucla.edu/BMCweb/SharedCode/downloads

Downloading and compiling the source (these instructions also follow from that page)

  1. Go to the distribution site listed above.
  2. Select the program you wish to download.
  3. Click: Submit
    The server will prepare a fresh tar file containing the most current sources and libraries
  4. From the page which appears, download the sources and binaries by clicking on the hyperlink
  5. Once downloaded, unpack the files. These are downloaded as compressed tar archives.
  6. Move all of the files from the libraries to the directory containing the source
  7. type, make at the command line
  8. If desired, move the newly created binary to a different directory.

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This page is maintained by Mark Cohen [updated 1/31/04]