SUITPy: Analysis and visualization of cerebellar imaging data.

The package provides some basic functionality of the original SUIT toolbox for Matlab (https://github.com/jdiedrichsen/suit). Currently, only mapping of volume data to the flatmap and display of the flatmap are implemented.

Important links

• SUIT website: http://diedrichsenlab.org/imaging/suit.htm
• Official source code repository: https://github.com/SUITPy/
• HTML documentation (latest release): https://suitpy.readthedocs.io/

Dependencies

The required dependencies to use the software are:

• python >= 3.6
• setuptools
• numpy >= 1.16
• nibabel >= 2.5
• pandas >= 0.24
• matplotlib >= 1.5.1
• scipy >=1.0
• neuroimagingtools >= 1.1.1

Install

First make sure you have installed all the dependencies listed above. Then you can install SUITPy by running the following command in a command prompt::

pip install -U --user SUITPy

More detailed instructions are available at https://suitpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Licence and Acknowledgements

The Python version of the SUIT toolbox has been developed by the Diedrichsenlab including J. Diedrichsen, M. King, D. Zhi, C. Hernandez-Castillo, S. Witt and others. It is distributed under MIT License, meaning that it can be freely used and re-used, as long as proper attribution in form of acknowledgments and links (for online use) or citations (in publications) are given. The relevant references are:

SUIT normalisation and template:

• Diedrichsen, J. (2006). A spatially unbiased atlas template of the human cerebellum. Neuroimage. 33(1), 127-138. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.05.056

Surface-based representation and flatmap

• Diedrichsen, J. & Zotow, E. (2015). Surface-based display of volume-averaged cerebellar data. PLOSOne. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133402