NiftiBrain

A Tool for Browsing Brain Regions by Connectivity

What is NiftiBrain?

NiftiBrain is a curated collection of open-access neuroinformatics and imaging data that makes it easier to browse brain regions based on functional, anatomical, and lexical relevance. The system attempts to bridge functional imaging, tract-tracing studies, and literature sources.

Please keep in mind, NiftiBrain is a single-person effort and is currently under construction.

Features

A 3d plot of  brain regions as spheres, with lines connecting correlated regions

An fully interactive, 3D connectivity matriix. Find regions by correlation and proximity.

Visit Functional Matrix Viewer
An image of white matter tracts in the brain, generated using parobabilistic tract tracing. Lightness represents the probability that a white-matter tract from the region of interest passes through the voxel in a pool of subjects.

A visualizer for probabilistic tract-tracing data from the Brainnetome Atlas.

Visit Structural Connectivity Viewer
An image of a treeview containing a hierarchy of brain regions

Information about brain regions and brain hierarchy from the NeuroNames ontology, linked with connectivity data from the SciCrunch Integrated Connectivity Database (including a subset of BAMS, CoCoMac, and BlueBrain Bluima data).

View Regional Hierarchy

Why NiftiBrain?

NiftiBrain aims to present neuroanatomy through connectivity, leveraging insights from both neuroimaging and traditional tract-tracing studies. NiftiBrain makes it possible to query related regions using proximity, functional correlations, and literature connections.

Neuroanatomy has multiple nomenclature systems, which can make it difficult to track information about specific regions in the literature. We aim to provide a resource that makes it easier to navigate and visualize the brain and follow new research.

How to cite NiftiBrain?

It is important to note that all data on NiftiBrain is the property of its respective owners. When citing data, is important to reference the original source. Unless otherwise noted, the data on this cite is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Please see our citation policy for more details.

If you own the rights to data hosted on NiftiBrain and feel we are not abiding by the terms of its license, please contact us to resolve the issue.