BrainSuite Statistics Toolbox in R
The BrainSuite Statistics Toolbox in R (bstr) is a software package developed in R that performs statistical analysis of population-level neuroimaging data processed using BrainSuite. It provides statistical tools for conducting cortical thickness analysis, tensor based morphometry, and analysis of diffusion measures.
Bstr is cross-platform and is available on macOS, Windows,and Linux
based systems (all platforms with R support). bstr is distributed under
an open source license
(GPLv2)). It supports
functionality for automated report generation to visualize statistical
results using R-shiny and R markdown. The volumetric analysis report
contains the cluster table, visualizations of clusters on image slices,
and shows both the unadjusted and the adjusted versions of p-values and
t statistics, respectively. The ROI analysis report shows the
demographic spreadsheet, automatic bar plots for ANOVA and regressions,
and scatter plot for correlation analyses. bstr also exports an R
markdown report that contains reproducible R commands in both the Rmd
file and in the html document. This enables complete reproducibility of
statistical results and only requires packaging the R markdown file
along with the data.
Development Team
The lead developer for bstr is Shantanu Joshi at the
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA. The project is
supervised by David
Shattuck, with
contributions from Yeun Kim, Kayla Schroeder, and Anand
Joshi. Change
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The bstr toolkit is a part of
BrainSuite, an open-source software project
that is produced and distributed as a collaborative effort led by David
Shattuck at UCLA
and Richard Leahy at the Biomedical Imaging Group at the University of
Southern California. Major contributors to the BrainSuite project
include Chitresh Bhushan, Soyoung Choi, Hanna Damasio, Justin P. Haldar,
Anand A. Joshi, Shantanu H. Joshi, Yeun Kim, Divya Varadarajan, and
Jessica L. Wisnowski.
Support
For questions or support, please email us at support@brainsuite.org. You can also submit issues to our issue tracker on Github.