Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research has quickly entered the big data regime: hardware and software advances have given rise to (3+1)-dimensional MRI images which consist of 32-64 volumes with dimensions 250x250x250 or more, making non-trivial image processing computationally expensive. In this talk, we describe our experience translating an MRI image post-processing technique from Matlab to Julia (https://github.com/jondeuce/DECAES.jl), reducing computation times from 2 hours to 2 mins.