Producing and Analyzing Macro-Connectomes: Current State and Challenges

Topic Editors:
Mihail Bota, University of Southern California, USA

Construction of comprehensive and detailed structural brain regions connections matrices (macro-connectomes) is fundamental for understanding the organization of the...

Deadline for full article submission: 22 Jan 2014

Information-based methods for neuroimaging: analyzing structure, function and dynamics

Topic Editors:
Daniele Marinazzo, University of Gent, Belgium
Jesus M. Cortes, Ikerbasque. Biocruces Health Research Institute, Spain
Miguel Angel Muñoz, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA, Spain

The aim of this Research Topic is to discuss the state of the art on the use of Information-based methods in the analysis of neuroimaging data. Information-based...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Oct 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Nov 2013

Recent advances and the future generation of neuroinformatics infrastructure

Topic Editors:
Xi Cheng, Lieber Institue for Brain Development, USA
Daniel R. Weinberger, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, USA
Daniel Marcus, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
John Van Horn, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Venkata S. Mattay, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, USA
Qian Luo, Saint Louis University, USA

The huge volume of multi-modal neuroimaging data across different neuroscience communities has posed a daunting challenge to traditional methods of data sharing, data...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Oct 2013

Neuroinformatics with the Insight ToolKit

Topic Editors:
Nicholas J. Tustison, University of Virginia, USA
Hans J. Johnson, The University of Iowa, USA
Brian Avants, University of Pennsylvania, USA

The Insight ToolKit (ITK) is a multi-platform open-source image analysis library that may be used freely within both academia and industry. The ITK software project was...

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Aug 2013

Python in Neuroscience II

Topic Editors:
Andrew P. Davison, CNRS, France
Markus Diesmann, Jülich Research Centre and JARA, Germany
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Satrajit S. Ghosh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Fernando Perez, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Eilif B. Muller, Blue Brain Project, EPFL, Switzerland
James A. Bednar, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Bertrand Thirion, Institut National de Recherche en informatique et automatique, France
Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Dartmouth College, USA

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics hosted the research topic “Python in Neuroscience” in 2008-2009, documenting the first wave of mature tools to propel Python into common use...

Deadline for full article submission: 15 Jul 2013

Imaging brain change across different time-scales

Topic Editors:
Ulla Ruotsalainen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Jussi Tohka, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Brain imaging has been used to characterize the naturally occurring changes in brain in very different time-scales. Anatomical and functional brain imaging can reveal the...

Submission Closed.

Electronic Data Capture, Representation, and Applications in Neuroimaging

Topic Editors:
John Van Horn, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Jessica A. Turner, Mind Research Network, USA

Clinical research studies require data collected through many different processes, including often neuroimaging, physiological, medical records, and clinical interviews...

Submission Closed.

Mapping the connectome: Multi-level analysis of brain connectivity

Topic Editors:
Trygve B. Leergaard, University of Oslo, Norway
Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA
Claus C. Hilgetag, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

The brain contains vast numbers of interconnected neurons that constitute functional networks. Structural descriptions of neuronal network elements and connections make...

Submission Closed.

Hierarchy and dynamics in neural networks

Topic Editors:
Rolf Kötter, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Marcus Kaiser, Seoul National University, Korea (South)
Claus C. Hilgetag

Hierarchy is a central feature in the organisation of complex biological systems and particularly the structure and function of neural networks. While other aspects of...

Submission Closed.

Neuroimaging workflow design and data-mining

Topic Editors:
Arthur W. Toga, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
John Van Horn, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

With the increasing number of neuroimaging studies appearing yearly in the literature, the need to consider the synthesis of the underlying data into new knowledge and...

Submission Closed.

Python in neuroscience

Topic Editors:
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Michael Hines, Yale University, USA
Rolf Kötter, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Markus Diesmann, Jülich Research Centre and JARA, Germany
Andrew P. Davison, CNRS, France
Eilif B. Muller, Blue Brain Project, EPFL, Switzerland
James A. Bednar, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Python is rapidly becoming the de facto standard language for systems integration. Python has a large user and developer-base external to the neuroscience community,...

Submission Closed.