MRIassess

MRIassess is a software platform designed to support the evaluation, quality control, and quantitative analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Intended for clinical researchers and radiology teams, MRIassess aims to standardize MRI assessment across studies and clinical workflows by providing modular tools for data processing, metrics extraction, and reporting.

Key components include automatic image quality assessment (IQA) metrics such as motion estimation, noise, and artifact detection; preprocessing steps like skull stripping and bias field correction; spatial normalization to standard templates; and segmentation or metric extraction for brain structures as well as diffusion and functional modalities. The platform supports customization through user-defined pipelines and batch processing.

Interoperability and data handling: MRIassess supports common imaging formats including DICOM and NIfTI, stores provenance and parameter logs, and can export results to formats such as CSV or JSON for integration with clinical information systems or PACS. It emphasizes reproducibility with versioned pipelines and audit trails.

Workflow: data ingestion, automated quality control, algorithmic analysis, and generation of quality-assured outputs for clinician or researcher review with visualizations. It provides a web-based or desktop viewer and supports scripting for advanced users.

Development and availability: MRIassess is a community-driven project under an open-source license, with ongoing contributions, documentation, and user support. It is designed to be extensible through plug-ins and third-party modules.

See also: medical imaging, MRI, image segmentation, quality control in imaging.