Compiling ANIMA

Requirements

ANIMA is multi-platform and will compile and run on the major platforms: Windows, OSX and Linux. It requires two major things:

• CMake (>= 3.1.0) as a cross-platform Makefile generation software (we use its super-project ability to also download and compile its dependencies)
• A compilation environment: Visual studio 2015 on Windows, Xcode and developer tools on OSX, gcc/g++ or any other C++ compiler on Linux

Code Architecture

ANIMA itself follows a modular structure, organized in 6 main modules, each one associated to a folder on the main repository:

• Math-Tools. This package contains generic mathematical tools: statistical tests, statistical distributions, optimizers, spherical harmonics, ...
• Filtering. This package contains image filters: smoothing, denoising, ...
• Diffusion. This package includes diffusion model estimation as well as tractography algorithms.
• Registration. This one holds registration tools: resamplers, interpolators, transformations, registration algorithms...
• Segmentation. segmentation tools
• Quantitative MRI. Estimation of quantitative parameters from MRI, MR simulation

Some of these modules are dependent on others (e.g. math-tools is the base to everything). If you know what you are doing, you can choose to compile only a subset of these.

ANIMA: Compilation Instructions

ANIMA is available as a superproject, including all its modules and links and instructions for its dependencies. Building ANIMA is simple:

• clone the repository from github: git clone https://github.com/Inria-Visages/Anima-Public.git src
• then, run CMake in a new build folder, change any options if you wish to change the default compilation (which downloads and compiles all dependencies and tools): mkdir build ; cd build ; ccmake ../src (use the CMake graphical interface on Windows)
• build using your environment (a make or ninja will be enough on Linux and OSX, open Visual Studio on Windows)

And there you go, the bin folder in the build directory will contain all tools described in this Wiki.