Neuroimaging platform in Japan
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Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
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NICT, Japan
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ATR-Promotions, Japan
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RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Brain imaging has become one of key technologies for studying human brain mechanisms. We organized the Neuro-Imaging Platform (NIMG-PF) committee, whose members are drawn from 18 Japanese research sites, and are constructing a database of non-invasive measurements of brain functions from beginners to specialists [1][2]. This is conducted as an activity of Neuroinformatics Japan Center (NIJC) at RIKEN Brain Science Institute under the international cooperation with INCF.
We are collecting the contents related to various technologies such as MRI, MEG, PET, NIRS, EEG, TMS, and their integrations such as tutorial materials, bibliographies of research papers, experimental data, original methods, and related information. In particular, we are aiming at collecting the contents that are little or lack in existing databases. They are tutorial on methods other than MRI, simulation tools, and experimental data [3]. Furthermore, a convenient visualization tool is desirable for imaging databases. Since the end of 2006, we have registered 480 contents for public use. They are paper bibliographies, tutorial videos of MEG, MRI, and NIRS, documents of MEG studies, raw MRI and MEG data, original software such as fMRI-constrained-MEG and Selective-Minimum-Norm analyses that estimate spatiotemporal neural activity from MEG measurement data.
Our NIMG-PF is constructed on a base-platform, XooNIps, which is operated by NIJC. The XooNIps system was extended to have online functions of visualizing brain structures and active areas, and of searching papers that include information on activation in specified areas. The other tool for standalone use, sBrain, has also been developed [4]. It has functions of simulating dynamic brain activations as well as the visualization and paper search.
In our platform, users can register their own contents with specifying permission conditions based on Creative Commons. They can also use contents if they agree with the permission conditions. Contents can be searched by selecting item types (Book, Paper, Presentation and Document, Data, Tool, Brain coordinates, Model, and Link) and index trees (Imaging Methods, Tutorial, Brain Function, Task, Stimulation, Brain Area, Temporal and Frequency component, Model, Technology, Link, and their subordinate levels), or by entering free key words.
Since March 17, 2008, our platform has been opened in public with a limited style (http://platform.nimg.neuroinf.jp) so that any persons can view but cannot use and register contents yet. It will be fully open in near future. We hope that our platform will be a place where useful information gathers.
References
1. R. Suzuki et al., "Neuro-Imaging Platform for Neuroinformatics", to appear in Proceeding of ICONIP2007 (ed. by M. Ishikawa et al.), Part II, LNCS 4985, Springer-Verlag, 2008
2. R. Suzuki et al., "Neuroimaging Platform for Neuroinformatics: NIMG-PF", presented at Human Brain Mapping 2008, June 15-19, Melbourne
3. Usui, S. et al. "Survey Report on the International Activities of Neuroinformatics and Related Databases (in Japanese)", March 2007, available at the website http://nijc.brain.riken.jp
4. T. Suzuki et al., "sBrain: a simulation and visualization tool for activation of brain areas on a realistic 3D brain image", presented at 16th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, July 7, 2007, Toronto
Conference:
Neuroinformatics 2008, Stockholm, Sweden, 7 Sep - 9 Sep, 2008.
Presentation Type:
Poster Presentation
Topic:
Neuroimaging
Citation:
Suzuki
R,
Niki
K,
Fujimaki
N,
Ichikawa
K,
Masaki
S and
Usui
S
(2008). Neuroimaging platform in Japan.
Front. Neuroinform.
Conference Abstract:
Neuroinformatics 2008.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.11.2008.01.062
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Received:
25 Jul 2008;
Published Online:
25 Jul 2008.
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Correspondence:
Norio Fujimaki, NICT, Kobe, Japan, fujimaki@po.nict.go.jp