BrainSplitter - an object oriented software for automatic extraction of the mid-sagittal plane from a brain surface

Mikko Itäranta, Jouni Mutanen, Ilkka Virtanen, Esa Ylimäki and Jouni Mykkänen
Department of Computer Sciences University of Tampere Finland

What it is?

BrainSplitter is an object-oriented C++ software for automatic extraction of the mid-sagittal plane from a brain surface mesh. The input mesh can be created by using the dualsurfacemin software. The algorithm is adapated from [1], see more information in [2].

Where it can be applied?

The BrainSplitter software can be applied problems where the brain hemishperes need to be separated.

Requirements

for compiling from the source

• A GNU C++ compiler (3.3 or newer),
• fftw3 library
• Makefile utility.

We have tested the software in Linux operating systems (32-bit).

for using

• A brain surface mesh generated by Dualsurfacemin software.
• A software to view resulting meshes (e.g. Javaview).

License

Dualsurfacemin is licensed under the GNU GPL See 'LICENSE' file in the software package.

Download source

brainsplitter-1.0-src.tar.gz (2.4Mb)

The current version is 1.0. Before using the software, please read BUGLIST file included in the package.

Related software for visualization

For visualization the meshes on image, we have developed a Surface Mesh Visualizer (SMV) Java package for ImageJ. The SMV is also freely available. Note, this software is a beta release (V1.1).

Bibliography

1

Y. Liu, R.T. Collins, and W.E. Rothfus.
Robust midsagittal plane extraction from normal and pathological 3-D neuroradiology images.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 20(3):175-192, 2001.

2

J. Mykkänen, J. Tohka, J. Luoma, and U. Ruotsalainen.
Automatic ectraction of brain surface and mid-sagittal plane from PET images applying deformable models.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2005.
In press.