A Primer on ANTs and Google Colaboratory

Advanced Normalization Tools (or simply, ANTs) is one of the few packages available in the domain of brain MRI study. It is the state-of-the-art package currently available for various tasks related to brain MRI scans like registration, normalization and bias field correction (including both N3 and N4 bias field correction). Though the package hasn’t been updated with a major release in a while, it works pretty well on PCs.

Google Colaboratory (or simply, Colab) has quickly risen to become one of the most commonly used platforms by machine learning researchers and students all over the globe. Through Colab, Google provides…