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Researchers use machine intelligence to improve brain-mapping technique
Scientists in Japan s brain science project have used machine intelligence to improve the accuracy and reliability of a powerful brain-mapping technique, a new study reports.
Their development, published on December 18th in
Scientific Reports, gives researchers more confidence in using the technique to untangle the human brain s wiring and to better understand the changes in this wiring that accompany neurological or mental disorders such as Parkinson s or Alzheimer s disease. Working out how all the different brain regions are connected - what we call the connectome of the brain - is vital to fully understand the brain and all the complex processes it carries out, said Professor Kenji Doya, who leads the Neural Computation Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).
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IMAGE: (Left) MRI scanners, like the one pictured at RIKEN Center for Brain Science, can be used to non-invasively map the brain by analyzing the diffusion of water molecules. (Right) The. view more
Credit: (Left) Junichi Hata and Hideyuki Okano, from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science. (Right) Figure was created using The MRtrix viewer 3.0.1.
Scientists in Japan s brain science project have used machine intelligence to improve the accuracy and reliability of a powerful brain-mapping technique, a new study reports.
Their development, published on December 18th in
Scientific Reports, gives researchers more confidence in using the technique to untangle the human brain s wiring and to better understand the changes in this wiring that accompany neurological or mental disorders such as Parkinson s or Alzheimer s disease.