GOOGLE AND HARVARD SCIENTISTS CREATE 3D MAP OF THE HUMAN BRAIN USING 225 MILLION IMAGES
Demonstrating just how extraordinary of an organ the human brain is, a team of scientists with Google and Harvard University has just conjured up an amazing color-coded map of nearly 4,000 incoming axons connecting to a single neuron.
Demonstrating just how extraordinary of an organ the human brain is, a team of scientists with Google and Harvard University has just conjured up an amazing color-coded map of nearly 4,000 incoming axons connecting to a single neuron.
This stunning browsable 3D map which represents just one millionth of the cerebral cortex has been composed using 225 million separate images and a super computer-crunching 1.4 petabytes of data. The main goals of this project were to produce a novel resource for studying human brains and to improve and scale the underlying connectomics technologies.
Demonstrating just how extraordinary of an organ the human brain is, a team of scientists with Google and Harvard University has just conjured up an amazing color-coded map of nearly 4,000 incoming axons connecting to a single neuron.
This stunning browsable 3D map which represents just one millionth of the cerebral cortex has been composed using 225 million separate images and a super computer-crunching 1.4 petabytes of data. The main goals of this project were to produce a novel resource for studying human brains and to improve and scale the underlying connectomics technologies.
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Mapping the convoluted clutter of neurons, synapses and neurological cells is a formidable task at best, but these diligent engineers achieved admirable results with this ambitious grey-matter project to create some sort of human brain wiring diagram ("connectome") based on its 86 billion neurons linked via 100 trillion synapses.
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