The NeuARt II system: a viewing tool for neuroanatomical data based on published neuroanatomical atlases

Background: Anatomical studies of neural circuitry describing the basic wiring diagram of the brain produce intrinsically spatial, highly complex data of great value to the neuroscience community. Published neuroanatomical atlases provide a spatial framework for these studies. We have built an informatics framework based on these atlases for the representation of neuroanatomical knowledge. This framework not only captures current methods of anatomical data acquisition and analysis, it allows these studies to be collated, compared and synthesized within a single system. Results: We have developed an atlas-viewing application ('NeuARt II') in the Java language with unique functional properties. These include the ability to use copyrighted atlases as templates within which users may view, save and retrieve data-maps and annotate them with volumetric delineations. NeuARt II also permits users to view multiple levels on multiple atlases at once. Each data-map in this system is si...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Gully A. P. C. Burns, Wei-Cheng Cheng, Richard H. Thompson, Larry W. Swanson
• Keywords: Atlases, BMCBI 2006, Neuart Ii, Neuroanatomical Atlases