Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics Brain-Mapping Project.

Abstract

The Brain Mapping Project has established and tested innovative techniques for quantitative mapping of human and animal neuroanatomy and has demonstrated the feasibility of computer graphics approaches. The emerging technology aims to acquire computer-generated tissue section maps in microscopic detail, in registration, and to reconstruct such images accurately in three dimensions. The completed system will provide a valuable tool for investigating clinical and basic neurological problems and for establishing three dimensional database standards for comparing processes of normal and abnormal growth, development, degeneration, injury and disease processes. This approach will enable confident mapping of correlations between structures and functions, and it will foster improved understanding of brain organization as an integrated whole. Keywords: Image processing rats; Monkeys; Cats; Humans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 15, 1987
Accession Number
ADA187202

Entities

People

  • Robert B. Livingston

Organizations

  • Scripps Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brain
  • Change Detection
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Detectors
  • Digital Images
  • Image Processing
  • Medical Personnel
  • Neuroimaging
  • Neurons
  • Skull
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Computer Vision.
  • Neuroscience