What’s involved?

Longitudinal Acquisition, Storage and Curation, Interoperability, Reproducibility, Transfer, Anonymization, Security, Privacy, Ethics, APIs, Validation, Quality Control, Protocol Checking, Preprocessing, Analysis, HPC, Provenance, Ontological Standarization, Data Harmonization, Upgrades, Maintenance, Bug Fixes, User Interface, Javascript, Bootstrap, Tracking, Extensibility, Data Management, Summary Statistics, Workflows, Development, Tool Integration, Data Sharing, Download, Multi-Modal Linking, Querying, Image Processing, Visualization, Networking, System Administration, Partnerships, Funding, HR ...No big deal!

LORIS-CBRAIN INTEGRATION

BigBrain

BigBrain - high resolution reference brain

Multimodal integration into an anatomically realistic standard space

Years of development

20 micron resolution

7404 histological slices

1 Terabyte dataset

Click to launch the Neuroglancer Viewer!

What is BigBrain?

The BigBrain dataset is the result of a collaborative effort between the teams of Dr. Katrin Amunts and Dr. Karl Zilles (Forschungszentrum Jülich), and Dr. Alan Evans (Montreal Neurological Institute)

Available freely at https://bigbrain.loris.ca

3D Volumes

3D Surfaces

3D Classified Volumes

Human Brain Mapping

How It's Made

Visualization with Atelier 3D

The Human Brain Project

Explore the Brain!

HBP Neuroinformatics Platform

BigBrain Workshop 2017
Montreal

From open data to novel applications

Latest Release 2015
Features

Improved aligment
Optical balancing
DeepZoom File Format
3D Blocks
3D ROI

DeepZoom File Format

3D Blocks

3D ROI

Thank you!Acknowledgements: Alan Evans, Alex Zijdenbos, Dario Vins, Jonathan Harlap, Matt Charlet, Andrew Corderey, Sebastian Muehlboeck, Reza Adalat, Louis Collins, Vladimir Fonov, Marc Rousseau, Mia Petkova, Rathi Gnanasekaran, David Brownlee, Tarek Sherif, Pierre Rioux, Nic Kassis, Leigh MacIntyre, Claude Lepage, Ilana Leppert, Natasha Beck, Tristan Glatard, Bert Vincent, Lindsay Lewis, Najma Mahani, Elodie Portales-Casamar, Alden Woodward, Sylvain Milot, Jean Francois Malouin, Sylvain Baillet, Daniel Kroetz, Martin Weiss, Mathieu Desrosier, Jason Karamchandani, Amit Bar-Or, Ted Fon, John Brietner, Derek Lo, Patrick Bermudez, Chris Steele, Pamela Patterson and one of my favourites: Pierre Bellec!

LORIS team on left