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toolbox for spm 5 for data, model free analysis

The model-free toolbox (mfBox)
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Version 1.0 (10-Mar-2006)
http://research.fabian.theis.name
http://www-aglang.uni-regensburg.de

The model-free toolbox or mfBox for short is a simple to use Matlab toolbox for performing
model-free analysis of multivariate data sets. Its graphical user interface enables users to
easily try out various model-free algorithms, together with additional pre- and postprocessing
algorithms and reliability analyses. The design of the toolbox is modular, so it can be easily
extended to include your algorithm of choice. It plugs into SPM and can be used to perform
model-free analysis of biomedical image time series such as fMRI or PET data sets, but can also
be used stand-alone.

The toolbox has been developed by Peter Gruber, Fabian J. Theis and Ingo Keck from the Signal Processing &
Information Theory group at the Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, Germany. It
is provided as free software subject to the GNU General Public License. Associated member of
the mfBox development-team is Elmar Lang, who greatly helped during planning,
development and testing.

This toolbox is a by-product of our former BMBF-funded project 'ModKog', where we analyzed
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans using information-theoretic methods. The
toolbox provides, among others, the two novel algorithms mdSOBI and stJADE and stSOBI developed
within this project, specifically fit to the structure of biomedical image time series. For
more details, please check out the page on biomedical applications.

Features
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* advanced model-free analysis of multivariate data sets
* powerful pre- and post-processing options
* easy to use, but flexible and extensible
* various component&result visualization tools
* save, load and export your results

Installation
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If it is to be run from within SPM, just extract the toolbox into the folder 'toolbox'. You
should have a subfolder mf_box. The program can be launched from the toolbox dropdown box in
SPM. For usage outside of SPM but for fMRI analysis, just add SPM to your path and start the
toolbox by starting 'spm_mf_box' within the mfBox-main folder.