ReviewFSL
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A brief history of FSL
It all began in 1998 when the FMRIB Centre was officially opened, bringing Functional MRI to Oxford. Not only was the lab itself young, but so were the researchers in it, with almost everyone, and certainly all those in the Analysis Group, under 30; sadly, this is no longer true! We were all academic children, or grand-children, of Mike Brady, who was an instrumental player in setting up FMRIB alongside the original founders: Alan Cowey, George Radda and John Newsom-Davis. FMRIB consisted of
Some philosophy behind the software
We have discussed some aspects of the way that we program but not why we made these decisions. For instance, why did we choose to use C++ and scripts within a Unix-like environment? Although there are many factors, including the fact that we were already familiar with these, the principal reasons were speed, modularity, and portability. We wanted the software to be accessible to all, run quickly, and be powerful, by allowing maximum flexibility and adaptability.
It was (and arguably still is)
Past to present
It was June 2000 when we first released FSL, which at that time only contained a very small subset of the tools it contains today. Over time we have developed new methodology, and improved existing methodology, but also put significant efforts into support, documentation, publications and data formats. It now contains about 200,000 lines of code!
Future directions — XMI
The future for FSL is all about integration (see Fig. 4). We want to integrate more with tools like FreeSurfer, trying to make interoperation as seamless as possible. We also intend to add support for extra formats/dimensionalities: GIFTI (allowing surfaces to be represented), NIFTI2 (allowing 64-bit dimensions and storage), CIFTI (combining surface and volumetric components of GIFTI and NIFTI together, being developed within the NIH Human Connectome Project).
Scientifically, in the immediate
Acknowledgments
There are many people that have contributed to FSL and our research over the years and we would like to thank them all for what they have done, and apologise to any that we have forgotten. The list of developers (in approximately chronological order) is: YongYue “axe” Zhang, Peter Bannister, Dave Flitney, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Duncan Mortimer, Matthew Webster, Ivana Drobnjak, Rami Niazy, John Vickers, Tom Nichols, Natalie Voets, Jesper Andersson, Brian Patenaude, Gwenaëlle Douaud, Saad Jbabdi,
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