High-Performance Computing Tools in Neural Imaging

High-performance computing (HPC) has transformed science and engineering over the past 20 years, but some fields have yet to fully realize its benefits due to software limitations. This article discusses software approaches to increase productivity in the life science discipline of neural imaging. Like other imaging-based endeavors, neural imaging faces daunting quantities of raw data, proprietary image formats, lossy vs. non-lossy compression, detector noise, complex object segmentation, and visualization challenges.