jMRUI is the outcome of the collaborative work of many people from signal-processing researchers developing and improving the algorithms interfaced by jMRUI, to the software engineers who have coded the interface simplifying the use of the processing algorithms. They are loosely classified as Developers or Contributors depending on the amount of work contributed to the jMRUI software. The criteria is, to some extent, arbitrary and we apologise in advance for this. In any case, whether as developers or contributors, they deserve public acknowledgement, and we are bound by
the debt immense of endless gratitude.
John Milton
Software Development Coordinator
The jMRUI software is maintained and enhanced by the contributions of all developers and contributors, and their work is finally assembled into a new version under the direction of the appointed Software Development Coordinator.
Current coordinator
Jana STARČUKOVÁ
Institute of Scientific Instruments
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Královopolská 147
612 64 Brno
Czech Republic
E-mail: jana dot starcukova at isibrno dot cz
Past coordinators
jMRUI development was coordinated by Danielle GRAVERON-DEMILLY from Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1 (France) for almost two decades. As Danielle Graveron retired in 2012, Jana Starčuková took over the software coordination. Nevertherless, Danielle Graveron is still involved in the jMRUI software development and actively contributes towards improving it.
Although they were not formally appointed as coordinators, we should mention that Ron de Beer and Aad van den Boogaart coordinated the development of the early Matlab-based MRUI.
Developers
These are the people who play or has played a major role in the development of the early Matlab-based version of MRUI and the current Java-based version of jMRUI. Most of them, have participated in the European Union research projects backing the development of MRUI and jMRUI.
Key developers
Amongst all developers, we must single out those who have played a major role in the development of MRUI & jMRUI because of their long commitment and the shear size of their contribution:
- Aad van den Boogaart —MSc in Applied Physics from the Technische Universiteit Delft, and Ph.D. on Biochemistry from St George’s, University of London— developed the first version of MRUI from 1991 to 1995 as part of his thesis on the use of signal processing algorithms to obtain biochemical relevant information from magnetic resonance spectra. He continued to work further on the development of MRUI from 1995 until 1997 as a postdoc at the Université Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
- Alexandre Naressi and César Couturier —Computer Sciences Engineers from the the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (Lyon, France). They developed the very first Graphical User Interface of jMRUI in Java during the years 1998 and 1999. This task included the conversion of the standalone Fortran programs into C/C++ wrapped Fortran-libraries that could be called from Java by using the Java Native Interface (JNI).
- Dan Stefan —Computer Sciences Engineer from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (Lyon, France)— played a major role in the development of jMRUI during more than ten years, and he was a key person in the redesign and improvement of the software architecture and graphical user interface. In particular, on 2007-2008 Dan completely refactored the code in version 3.x and turned jMRUI into a plug-in platform.
All developers
| DEVELOPERS | INSTITUTIONS |
|---|---|
| Victor Adalid | Univerity of Bern (Switzerland) |
| Diana Raluca Amariei | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) |
| Abdul-Rahman Allouche | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Ron de Beer | University of Delft (Netherlands) |
| Christine Bolliger | Univerity of Bern (Switzerland) |
| Aad van den Boogaart | St. George's Hospital Medical School (United Kingdom) |
| Aad van den Boogaart | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Aad van den Boogaart | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| Miquel E. Cabañas | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) |
| Sophie Cavassila | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Federico Di Cesare | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Daniel Chong | Univerity of Bern (Switzerland) |
| Alain Coron | Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) |
| César Couturier | University of Delft (Netherlands) |
| Jean-Marie Devos | National Technical Univ. Athens (Greece) |
| Danielle Graveron | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Rui Guimaraes | Institute for Language and Speech Processing (Greece) |
| Ana Jorge Gonçalves | University of Manchester (Great Britain) |
| Paul Van Hecke | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| Maike Höfemann | Univerity of Bern (Switzerland) |
| Sabine Van Huffel | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| Remi Huynh | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Michal Jablonski | Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) |
| Merlijn Janssen | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Eric Jullo | University of Leipzig (Germany) |
| Arno Knijn | Istituto Superiore Rome (Italy) |
| Roland Kreis | Univerity of Bern (Switzerland) |
| Christian Labadie | Max Planck Institute, Leipzig (Germany) |
| Andrii Lazariev | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Christophe Mangeat | University of Leipzig (Germany) |
| Gwenaelle Marcou | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| David Marquis | University of Delft (Netherlands) |
| Nicola Mastronardi | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France). |
| Olivier Mayenson | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Farid Mitri | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Alexandre Naressi | University of Leipzig (Germany) |
| Dirk van Ormondt | University of Delft (Netherlands) |
| Thomas Petit | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Emil Popa | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Herald Rabeson | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Alexandre Ramembason | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Helene Ratiney | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Michael Sdika | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Amir Mohammad Shamaei | Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) |
| Diana Sima | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| Johannes Slotboom | University Hospital Bern (Switzerland) |
| Zenon Starčuk | Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) |
| Jana Starčuková | Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) |
| Dan Stefan | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Jens Totz | University of Leipzig (Germany) |
| Mariano Uberti | Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France) |
| Elena Vescovo | University of Manchester (United Kingdom) |
| Leentje Vanhamme | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| Frank Wajer | University of Delft (Netherlands) |
Contributors
The above list is a non exhaustive list of people who have contributed to jMRUI. There are also many other people who have contributed a minor improvement to the jMRUI software: a routine to convert a new format of data, a bug fix, a wise suggestion on how to improve the software, technical information about some data format, etc. We are very grateful to all of them but it is almost impossible to name everyone. Since the definition of minor improvement is to some extent arbitrary, if you think that your contribution merits you a place amongst developers, please, do not hesitate to write us and we will carefully address your request. We have done our best to mention all major developers, but if you cannot find your name, please, accept our most sincere apologies and tell us so that we can fix the grievance.
