Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of barSupplement

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10/31/11 05:42:54 (13 years ago)

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 Piotr Majka, Ewa Kublik, Grzegorz Furga, Daniel K. Wójcik (2011) submitted 
 
-(Tutaj będzie abstrakt, jak już się zdecydujemy na jego treść)
+One of the challenges of modern neuroscience is integrating voluminous data of diferent
+modalities derived from a variety of specimens. This task requires a common spatial framework 
+that can be provided by brain atlases. The first atlases were limited to two-dimentional presentation of structural data. Recently, attempts at creating 3D atlases have been made to offer navigation within non-standard anatomical planes and improve capability of localization of different types of data within the brain volume.
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+The 3D atlases available so far have been created using frameworks which make it difficult for other
+researchers to replicate the results. To facilitate reproducible
+research and data sharing in the field we propose a SVG-based Common
+Atlas Format (CAF) to store 2D atlas delineations or other compatible data
+and ''3D Brain Atlas Reconstructor'' (3dBAR), software dedicated to automated
+reconstruction of three-dimensional brain structures from 2D
+atlas data. The basic functionality is provided by 1) a set of parsers
+which translate various atlases from a number of formats into the CAF,
+and 2) a module generating 3D models from CAF datasets.
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+This methodology allows for the generation of 3D models in a
+reproducible and configurable manner. The users of the software may
+also track and review the whole reconstruction process in order to
+find and correct errors.
+Our workflow allows for manual corrections to be made when
+automatic reconstruction is not sufficient.
+
+The software was designed to simplify interoperability with other
+neuroinformatics tools by using open file formats (SVG, XML, VRML).
+The content can easily be exchanged at any stage of data
+processing.  The framework allows for the addition of new public or
+proprietary content. Most of the framework was implemented as a Python
+module with an API.
 
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