Anatomist : user manual


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Install and start Anatomist software
3. Configuration
Configuration menus
Application menu
Linked cursor menu
Windows menu
Control window menu
Volumes menu
OpenGL menu
Preferences validation
Customized configuration
4. Windows
Windows types
Oblique window
Windows groups
Windows blocks
Window contextual menu
5. Objects
Objects handled by Anatomist
Loading an object
Objects attributes
Objects visualization
Copy Objects from one window to another
Objects menu
Objects color
6. Controls
What is a control ?
Default control
Linked cursor
Camera: rotation, zoom, translation
View setup
Objects
Slices and time handling
Colormaps handling
Selection control
Selection
Labels copy/paste tool
Graph labels display as text
Oblique view control
Flight simulator control
Transformation control
Region of interest drawing toolbox
Hand-drawing of Regions of Interest (ROI)
Threshold ROI drawing mode under connectivity to clicked point constraint
ROI design by discriminating analysis
ROI drawing mode by label selection
Surface paint module
Mesh cutting control
Fold split control
7. Combining objects
Objects superimposing
General definition
Application : Superimposing an anatomy and regions of interest (grey central nuclei)
Application : Superimposing hemispheres meshes and head mesh
Objects fusion
General definition
Types of fusions
8. About referentials
Load and display objects
Axis orientation
Neurological and radiological convention managing
Origin of volumes
Coordinates system
Real world sampling : coordinates in mm and in voxels
Linked cursor position
Referentials and transformations in Anatomist
General definition
Transformations' format
Referential of an object
Referential of a window
Loading a transformation between two referentials
Actions on transformations : delete, save...
Application : loading a transformation (coming from registration) between an anatomical volume and a functional volume.
How to get a transformation file ?
Using transformation information contained in SPM/NIFTI headers
9. ROI drawing toolbox
ROI management interface
Session menu
Region menu
FrameWork menu
Personal sub-menu
Windows menu
ROI painting
Brush panel
Modes panel
Mathematical morphology
Connectivity threshold
Blob segmentation
ROI drawing mode by label selection
10. Surface paint module
11. Handling a graph
Browsing a graph through its nodes.
Selecting nodes
Graph parameters
Using nomenclatures
Modifying the value of graph's attributes and saving a new graph
12. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Glossary
A. anatomist command options
B. Display convention according to Aims version
Aims version before 2.13
Aims version after 2.13
C. Configuration file .aimsrc
Utility
Syntax
D. Differences between linux and windows versions of Anatomist
E. Anatomist script file (.ana)
F. Add a palette
G. Sulci nomenclature
H. .anahis format : histogram data obtained via the connexity threshold tool

List of Figures

1.1. Anatomist control window
1.2. Visualize and handle a volume with Anatomist
3.1. Application tab
3.2. Default referentials configuration
3.3. Linked cursortab
3.4. Windows tab
3.5. Control window tab
3.6. Volumes tab
3.7. OpenGL tab
3.8. Preferences validation
4.1. 3D window
4.2. Oblique window
4.3. Axial window (2D)
4.4. 4 views block
5.1. Palette window
6.1. Default control keyboard shortcuts
6.2. Selection control keyboard shortcuts
6.3. Graph "annotation" mode
6.4. Oblique view control keyboard shortcuts
6.5. Flight simulator control keyboard shortcut.
6.6. Transformation control keyboard shortcuts
6.7. ROI drawing control keyboard shortcut
6.8. Threshold ROI drawing keyboard shortcuts
6.9. ROI design by discriminating analysis keyboard shortcuts
6.10. ROI drawing mode by label selection keyboard shortcuts
6.11. Mesh cutting control keyborad shortcut
6.12. Fold split control keyborad shortcuts
7.1. Superimposing an anatomy and regions of interest
7.2. Superimposing hemispheres meshes and head mesh
7.3. Fusion type
7.4. Fusion control
7.5. Example of a linear fusion between two 3D volumes
8.1. Coordinates in mm / coordinates in voxel
8.2. Example of a transformation .trm file
8.3. Modifying the referential of a window (1)
8.4. Modifying the referential of a window (2)
8.5. Loading a transformation between an anatomical volume and a functional volume.
9.1. Warning message when volume's and graph's voxels size are different.
9.2. ROI management interface
9.3. Paint tab
9.4. Mathematical morphology tab
9.5. Connectivity threshold tab
9.6. Image of labels (displayed in radiological convention)
11.1. Graph parameters window
G.1. Automatic recognition of sulci for subject A, external side (BrainVISA process Sulci => morphometry => automatic recognition )
G.2. Automatic recognition of sulci for subject A, intern (BrainVISA process Sulci => morphometry => automatic recognition )

List of Tables

4.1. Windows
4.2. Windows menu
5.1. Formats managed by Anatomist (non exhaustive list)
5.2. Palette parameters
5.3. Material
5.4. Mapping Mode
5.5. Texture generation (rarely used option - this generates new texture coordinates on-the-fly)
5.6. Options
7.1. Fusion descriptions
7.2. Interpolation methods
7.3. Interpolation sub-methods
7.4. Interpolation parameters
9.1. Menu Session
9.2. Region menu
9.3. FrameWork menu
9.4. Personal sub-menu
9.5. Windows menu
9.6. Brush panel
9.7. Modes Panel
9.8. Structuring element radius
9.9. Distance mode
9.10. Mathematical morphology actions
9.11. Connectivity threshold panel
9.12. Blob segmentation
10.1. Surface paint module actions
C.1. .aimsrc file attributes
G.1. Sulci nomenclature