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Connectome Workbench v1.1 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of Connectome Workbench (WB) brain visualization and analysis software.
Learn more about Workbench here.
Get Workbench v1.1 at http://humanconnectome.org/connectome/get-connectome-workbench.html.
New features in WB v1.1 include:
- Improved Help Searching
- Border mode improvements including Border optimize to provide semi-automatic optimization of parcel borders based on single or multi-modal gradients
- Volume ROI drawing/editing added using “Volume” mode functions
- Loading and viewing of image files enabled (displayed as underlay in selected Viewing Tab)
- Improvements to parcellated file behavior and display
- Palette Settings Improvements:
- High/low threshold value linking and threshold setting via right click on histogram functions added
- Thresholding and Palette ranges and step sizes respect range of data
- Absolute Percentile Palette range and Normalize palette function added
- Full File names/paths in Layers are displayed via tooltips and copy functions added to Layer construction menu
- Charting Improvements:
- Series chart History display options added
- Toggle display of selection of rows in matrix chart added
- Identify Brainordinate function (head Icon in Toolbar) added for selecting or highlighting a brainordinate, parcel, or CIFTI row
- Volume ID symbol may be displayed upon clicking voxels (option in Preferences)
- Changes to existing command behavior:
- -cifti-extrema now writes dscalar
- more error checking in -probtrackx-dot-convert
- -cifti-replace-structure on label files doesn’t drop unused keys unless asked
- -metric-fill-holes, -metric-remove-islands use surface area
- -set-map-names will error if no options to change map names are present
- New commands and features:
- -cifti-create-dense-from-template for easier creation of cifti files with matching brainordinates
- command help format shortened by moving parameters with descriptions to the top, replacing the bare list of parameters
- -*-stats and -*-weighted-stats
- equality/boolean operators added in -*-math
- -cifti-separate can now output label volume for subcortical structures
- -cifti-convert -*-text for transferring data to/from other tools
- -cifti-copy-mapping
- better formatting of command help, logging info, wb_command errors
- deprecated commands (those that have been replaced with other commands) are available with via: -list-deprecated-commands
WB v1.1 is compatible with the upcoming 2015 HCP Course practical instructions and data (look for this in the next 1-2 weeks!) and the WB v1.0 tutorial and dataset featuring processed HCP 500 Subjects data available to download at http://humanconnectome.org/connectome/get-connectome-workbench.html and on the ConnectomeDB HCP project page. Access to the tutorial data requires ConnectomeDB login and signature of the HCP Open Access Data Use Terms.
To download the WB v1.1 source code from GitHub: follow the link, click releases (near the top of the page), then under v1.1, click the “Source code (zip)” or “Source code (tar.gz)” button .
We encourage you to check out Connectome Workbench v1.1 for visualizing and performing analysis on imaging data from the HCP and elsewhere. Discussion of Connectome Workbench usage, bugs, and features can be posted to the hcp-users discussion list. Sign up for hcp-users at http://humanconnectome.org/contact/#subscribe