Signal Analysis

• At the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, the investigation is on

how the highly regulated mammalian central nervous system
is established and how it is affected by environmental and
genetic factors. As part of this research, genetically mutant
mice are developed using standard genetics procedures, and
study the behavioral phenotypes of these mice. Using this
experimental data specific genes may be linked to behaviors
by analyzing how areas of the brain respond to external
stimuli such as odor, sound, and light.
The images for this analysis can be obtained
from medical imaging modalities such as x-ray
(2D and 3D), ultrasound, computed tomography
(CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear
imaging (PET and SPECT), and microscopy.
MATLAB® has a development environment and
built-in analysis and data access functionality for
building algorithms for medical image analysis.
Using GUI
 The Matlab Program using Image Processing Toolbox

• % Similar for PET/MR, where the relative orientations may be very different
• MR = readImages('C:\MR\');
• PET_MR = readImages('C:\PET(MR)\');
• VolumeViewer3D(MR,PET_MR)
• % Region-of-interest masks can be generated with the argument 'drawROI'
• % Other arguments may be ignored, and if a second volume is passed,
• % it will be defined in the space of the first, as will the output mask
• mask = VolumeViewer3D(PET,CT,'drawROI');
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