PowerPoint Presentation - AFNI: Introduction, Concepts, Principles

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AFNI = Analysis of Functional NeuroImages

• Developed to provide an environment for FMRI data analyses

H And a platform for development of new software

• AFNI refers to both the program of that name and the entire package of programs and plugins (more than 100)

• Important principles in the development of AFNI:

H Allow user to stay close to the data and view it in many different ways

H Allow users to assemble pieces in different ways to make customized analyses

H “Provide mechanism, not policy”

H Allow other programmers to add features that can interact with the rest of the package