FreeSurfer (Introduction)

As the number of studies using functional MRI grew, so did the need for tools to help analyze the images the studies produced. In about 1997, Martinos researchers began to develop a suite of automated tools to address a host of emerging needs, including reconstruction of the highly folded surface of the brain based on three-dimensional anatomical MRI images. They introduced the software suite at the 1999 meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.