Citation Policy

NiftiBrain is an aggregator of public neuroinformatics and brain imaging information indended to aid in teaching and understanding neuroanatomy. We do not own the rights to any data we publish, nor are we endorsed by the original researchers in any way.

There are caveats to citing NiftiBrain directly. Though we go to considerable lengths to ensure that the data and presentation are accurate, NiftiBrain is not peer-reviewed, nor does it currently have a published technical description of its own. While NiftiBrain may be useful for gathering general information, references and bibliographic information, it should not be considered a primary source.

We strive to ensure that original author(s) of the data receive credit for their work.

Most of the resources are licensed under Creative Commons Non-Commercial license or similar. Original content and analysis is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. If you cite or use any data from NiftiBrain, you must cite the original source and abide by the terms of the original licensing agreement.

If you own the rights to the data and feel that our usage is in violation of the original terms, please contact us.

Below are citations for the main applications on our website.

Structural Connectivity Atlas Viewer

Structural tract-tracing images are part of the Brainnetome Atlas, which is the property of Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and released undar a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. From the Brainnetome website:

The information, images and data are the property of the Brainnetome Center. Our center is willing to make this information available to researchers, scientists and others at colleges, universities, not-for-profit foundations and other similar institutions free of charge, subject to proper attribution and an agreement to share alike, for use for non-commercial purposes. Brainnetome Center will consider granting a license to individuals and entities that wish to use the information, images and data for commercial purposes. Such requests should be made to Dr. Lingzhong Fan. (Please see the Brainnetome license terms on their download page for more information).
  1. Lingzhong Fan, Hai Li, Junjie Zhuo, Yu Zhang, Jiaojian Wang, Liangfu Chen, Zhengyi Yang, Congying Chu, Sangma Xie, Angela R. Laird, Peter T. Fox, Simon B. Eickhoff, Chunshui Yu, and Tianzi Jiang. "The Human Brainnetome Atlas: A New Brain Atlas Based on Connectional Architecture", Cerebral Cortex, 2016 doi:10.1093/cercor/bhw157

Brain Hierarchy and Nomenclature

The brain hierarchy and nomenclature is from the NeuroNames ontology, which is property of BrainInfo, National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, and released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

  1. BrainInfo (1991-present), National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, http://www.braininfo.org.

Region Atlas Images

The atlas images on the Region Info page are the property of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Any use of these images must be in accordance with their citation policy.

The images are from the Allen Adult Human Brain Atlas.

  1. Ding SL, Royall JJ, Sunkin SM, Ng L, Facer BA, Lesnar P, Guillozet-Bongaarts A, McMurray B, Szafer A, Dolbeare TA, Stevens A, Tirrell L, Benner T, Caldejon S, Dalley RA, Dee N, Lau C, Nyhus J, Reding M, Riley ZL, Sandman D, Shen E, van der Kouwe A, Varjabedian A, Wright M, Zöllei L, Dang C, Knowles JA, Koch C, Phillips JW, Sestan N, Wohnoutka P, Zielke HR, Hohmann JG, Jones AR, Bernard A, Hawrylycz MJ, Hof PR, Fischl B, Lein ES. "Comprehensive cellular-resolution atlas of the adult human brain." J Comp Neurol. 2016 Nov 1;524(16):3127-481. doi: 10.1002/cne.24080.

The system makes use of the Allen API. Any data from the API, or the images themselves, are property of the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Connectivity Data and Listings

Connectivity data was downloaded from the SciCrunch integrated connectivity database, and originally collated by one of either BAMS, CoCoMac, or the BlueBrain Bluima Project. When citing connectivity data, it is necessary to cite the source listed with the original item. While lengths were taken to ensure the accuracy of the data, it cannot be fully assured. Data from SciCrunch is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, though additional terms may apply for the original resources.

Wikipedia

Some articles and data are sourced from Wikipedia, which are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.