Authors:
Bartłomiej Wilkowski
;
Marcin Szewczyk
;
Peter Mondrup Rasmussen
;
Lars Kai Hansen
and
Finn Årup Nielsen
Affiliation:
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Keyword(s):
SPM, fMRI, PET, Neuroinformatics, Talairach, MNI, Brain region, Brain function, Brain activity, Article retrieval, Coordinate-based search, Bibtex, Brede Database, Ontology.
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Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Mining
;
Databases and Datawarehousing
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Datamining
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Signal Processing
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Soft Computing
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Large amounts of neuroimaging studies are collected and have changed our view on human brain function. By integrating multiple studies in meta-analysis a more complete picture is emerging. Brain locations are usually reported as coordinates with reference to a specific brain atlas, thus some of the databases offer so-called coordinate-based searching to the users (e.g. Brede, BrainMap). For such search, the publications, which relate to the brain locations represented by the user coordinates, are retrieved. In this paper we present BredeQuery -- a plugin for the widely used SPM5 data analytic pipeline. BredeQuery offers a direct link from SPM5 to the Brede Database coordinate-based search engine. BredeQuery is able to `grab' brain location coordinates from the SPM windows and enter them as a query for the Brede Database. Moreover, results of the query can be displayed in an SPM window and/or exported directly to some popular bibliographic file formats (BibTeX, Reference Manager, etc).