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NeuroAnatomy Toolbox for Analysis of 3D Image Data

v1.8.25 · Aug 18, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

NeuroAnatomy Toolbox (nat) enables analysis and visualisation of 3D biological image data, especially traced neurons. Reads and writes 3D images in NRRD and 'Amira' AmiraMesh formats and reads surfaces in 'Amira' hxsurf format. Traced neurons can be imported from and written to SWC and 'Amira' LineSet and SkeletonGraph formats. These data can then be visualised in 3D via 'rgl', manipulated including applying calculated registrations, e.g. using the 'CMTK' registration suite, and analysed. There is also a simple representation for neurons that have been subjected to 3D skeletonisation but not formally traced; this allows morphological comparison between neurons including searches and clustering (via the 'nat.nblast' extension package).

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Maintainer: ‘Gregory Jefferis <jefferis@gmail.com>’

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies rgl nabor igraph filehash digest nat.utils plyr yaml nat.nblast nat.templatebrains BoneDensityMapping RIA cmtkr nat

Version History

26 tracked
new 1.8.25 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.8.25 ← 1.8.24 diff Aug 17, 2025
updated 1.8.24 ← 1.8.23 diff Feb 4, 2024
updated 1.8.23 ← 1.8.22 diff Aug 24, 2023
updated 1.8.22 ← 1.8.21 diff Jun 6, 2023
updated 1.8.21 ← 1.8.19 diff Jan 28, 2023
updated 1.8.19 ← 1.8.18 diff Apr 5, 2022
updated 1.8.18 ← 1.8.17 diff Sep 5, 2021
updated 1.8.17 ← 1.8.16 diff Sep 2, 2021
updated 1.8.16 ← 1.8.14 diff Sep 21, 2020
updated 1.8.14 ← 1.8.13 diff Feb 6, 2020
updated 1.8.13 ← 1.8.11 diff Aug 21, 2019
updated 1.8.11 ← 1.8.9 diff Nov 11, 2017
updated 1.8.9 ← 1.8.7 diff May 7, 2017
updated 1.8.7 ← 1.8.4 diff Nov 9, 2016