| 1 | = Supplementary material = |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Web page http://www.3dbar.org/wiki/barSupplement contains the most recent versions of supplementary materials for the article: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | == Common Atlas Format and 3D Brain Atlas Reconstructor: Infrastructure for Constructing 3D Brain Atlases == |
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| 7 | Piotr Majka, Ewa Kublik, Grzegorz Furga, Daniel K. Wójcik (Neuroinformatics 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12021-011-9138-6) |
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| 9 | == ABSTRACT == |
| 10 | |
| 11 | One of the challenges of modern neuroscience is integrating voluminous |
| 12 | data of diferent modalities derived from a variety of specimens. This |
| 13 | task requires a common spatial framework that can be provided by brain |
| 14 | atlases. The first atlases were limited to two-dimentional |
| 15 | presentation of structural data. Recently, attempts at creating 3D |
| 16 | atlases have been made to offer navigation within non-standard |
| 17 | anatomical planes and improve capability of localization of different |
| 18 | types of data within the brain volume. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | The 3D atlases available so far have been created using frameworks |
| 21 | which make it difficult for other researchers to replicate the |
| 22 | results. To facilitate reproducible research and data sharing in the |
| 23 | field we propose an SVG-based Common Atlas Format (CAF) to store 2D |
| 24 | atlas delineations or other compatible data and 3D Brain Atlas |
| 25 | Reconstructor (3dBAR), software dedicated to automated |
| 26 | reconstruction of three-dimensional brain structures from 2D atlas |
| 27 | data. The basic functionality is provided by 1) a set of parsers which |
| 28 | translate various atlases from a number of formats into the CAF, and |
| 29 | 2) a module generating 3D models from CAF datasets. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | The whole reconstruction process is reproducible and can easily be |
| 32 | configured, tracked and reviewed, which facilitates fixing |
| 33 | errors. Manual corrections can be made when automatic reconstruction |
| 34 | is not sufficient. The software was designed to simplify |
| 35 | interoperability with other neuroinformatics tools by using open file |
| 36 | formats. The content can easily be exchanged at any stage of data |
| 37 | processing. The framework allows for the addition of new public or |
| 38 | proprietary content. |
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| 40 | |
| 41 | ==== Following supplementary materials are available: ==== |
| 42 | |
| 43 | 1. [wiki:barSoftwareGUI Description of the graphical user interface for reconstruction module;] |
| 44 | 2. [wiki:barSoftwareCLI Command-line reconstruction interface manual;] |
| 45 | 3. [wiki:barSoftwareErrorCorrection Description of vector data processing - typical problems and their solutions;] |
| 46 | 4. [wiki:barSoftwareGapFillDetails Detailed description of the gap-filling algorithm;] |
| 47 | 5. [wiki:barSoftwareEditingContSl Creation of new structures.] |