We provide software tools for displaying and publishing interactive 3-dimensional (3D) and 4-dimensional (4D) figures to html webpages, with examples of high-resolution brain imaging. Our framework is based in the R statistical software using the rgl package, a 3D graphics library. We build on this package to allow manipulation of figures including rotation and translation, zooming, coloring of brain substructures, adjusting transparency levels, and addition/or removal of brain structures. The need for better visualization tools of ultra high dimensional data is ever present; we are providing a clean, simple, web-based option. We also provide a package (brainR) for users to readily implement these tools.
rgl, knitr, Sweave, slidify, misc3d, brainR
Graphics, Multivariate, MedicalImaging, ReproducibleResearch, SpatioTemporal
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For attribution, please cite this work as
Muschelli, et al., "The R Journal: brainR: Interactive 3 and 4D Images of High Resolution Neuroimage Data", The R Journal, 2014
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2014-004,
author = {Muschelli, John and Sweeney, Elizabeth and Crainiceanu, Ciprian},
title = {The R Journal: brainR: Interactive 3 and 4D Images of High Resolution Neuroimage Data},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2014},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2014-004},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2014-004},
volume = {6},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {41-48}
}