Quantitative Imaging Toolkit: Software for Interactive 3D Visualization, Data Exploration, and Computational Analysis of Neuroimaging Datasets

Abstract

Computational tools are increasingly important to MR imaging research, as they can make experiments more reproducible, improve our ability to share our findings and methods, and facilitate hypothesis generation. We aim to contribute a software package to the research community named the Quantitative Imaging Toolkit (QIT). QIT was developed to provide tools for 3D visualization, data exploration, and computational analysis of neuroimaging datasets. While meant to be generally useful for neuroimaging, the tools have extensively developed features for analyzing diffusion MRI data, running large population imaging analyses, and developing new algorithms.