The human brain can be subdivided into cytoarchitectonic areas. They are defined by the spatial organization of neuronal cells, including their distribution, size, type, orientation, as well as their arrangement into cortical layers and columns. Cytoarchitectonic areas are indicators for connectivity and function, making them a central component of multi-modal human brain atlases. Scaling the...
Diffusion MRI provides orientation information about fiber tracts in the brain. To quantify connectivity, tractography has been developed to reconstruct fiber trajectories based on orientation distributions. Conventional tractography methods relying on analytical ODF models and streamlining methods are afflicted with artifacts and do not consider anatomical information as a prior. In addition,...
This presentation gives a bird’s eye view on the science, software, computing, and funding landscape in the EU, identifying potential challenges and opportunities.
After an introduction of the constraints and requirements informing this work, a high-level map of the ecosystem will be introduced. This ecosystem spans from science end-users to systems and service provides, funding agencies and...
Digital brain research requires access to computational resources, such as cloud, HPC, neuromorphic and smaller systems. Fenix offers access to federated HPC and Cloud resources and provides services to interact with these resources. However, many users are not proficient in using these systems efficiently and are typically more interested in working on their scientific problems than finding...
