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Imaging Collections: How They're Stacking Up

As barriers to massive imaging collections fall, researchers can look at human systems in their entirety rather than in pieces

In the beginning there was the Visible Human. It broke new ground by gathering some 2,000 serial images from a death row inmate’s cadaver, and was the first time researchers had sectioned a...
Jul, 01, 2007
BD2K Centers Size Up Brain Disease

With enough images and associated data, researchers hone in on more effective ways to diagnose and treat brain disease 

Relevant NIH Institutes: NIMH, NINDS, NHLBI, NIA, NIBIB, NIDA, NHGRI, NICHD, and NIAAA   About a year and a half ago, brain imaging researchers at the University of Southern California (USC)...
Jun, 14, 2017
Probing Huntington’s Origins: Computational Approaches May Lead to Earlier Interventions

Imaging and bioinformatics tools dig deep.

Uncontrolled writhing and jerking. Poor judgment. Depression and irritability. It’s hard to imagine how this unnerving mix of movement, cognitive and psychiatric problems arises from a single...
Jun, 18, 2014
Bringing the Fruits of Computation to Bear on Human Health: It’s a Tough Job but the NIH Has to Do It
The National Institutes of Health are on a mission: To understand and tackle the problems of human health. To make that daunting problem approachable, 15 of the 20 institutes divvy up human health...
Oct, 05, 2012
Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tractography: Revealing Connectivity in the Living Brain
One of the major obstacles to studying the human brain has always been gaining access. Until relatively recently, almost all of what we knew about the brain was obtained through post-mortem ...
Apr, 01, 2008
Integrating the Fragmented Mind: Bringing the Whole Elephant into View

Scientists are bringing diverse methods together to better understand schizophrenia and other mental illnesses

In an oft-cited story, six blind men each touch an elephant to describe its essential nature. The one who touches the tail reports that the elephant is like a rope. The others each touch a different...
Jun, 03, 2015
Implicit Representation of Biological Shapes and Forms
  Imaging, geometric modeling, representation and computing of shapes and forms are important components of modern computational biology. These processes apply across wide spectra of scales,...
Oct, 03, 2012
BD2K Centers: The Basics

The Centers span the nation and the full range of biomedical research

CEDAR Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval Mission: To make data submission smarter and faster, so biomedical researchers and analysts can create and use better metadata. BDTG...
Jun, 21, 2017
From Sight to Insight: Visualization tools yield biomedical success stories
They're more than just pretty pictures adorning office walls and presentation slides. Beamed into operating room computer monitors, they're guiding the scalpels of brain surgeons. Dancing...
Jan, 01, 2006
Computing the Ravages of Time: Using Algorithms To Tackle Alzheimer’s Disease

Biomarker research, genetics, and imaging are all coming into play

In 1906, at a small medical meeting in Tübingen, Germany, physician Alois Alzheimer gave a now-famous presentation about a puzzling patient. At age 51, Auguste D.’s memory was failing...
Oct, 01, 2007
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