MASI Lab · Vanderbilt University

A shared public library for brain atlas visualization

Brain atlases are essential for interpreting neuroimaging results, yet no publicly accessible, precomputed resource for comparing regions across atlases in 3D has existed — until now. SPINS provides interactive visualizations across cortical, subcortical, white matter, and functional parcellations.

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2,481
Brain regions
rendered
21
Atlases
available
3D
Glass brain
videos per region
AI
Region overviews
generated

Available atlases

Whole-brain

brainCOLOR

Manually labeled human neuroanatomical parcellation delineating hundreds of cortical and subcortical structures on high-resolution MRI.

121 regions · cortical + subcortical
Whole-brain

AAL

Automated Anatomical Labeling atlas: a macroanatomical parcellation dividing the cortex and some subcortical structures by sulcal landmarks.

116 regions · cortical + cerebellar
Whole-brain

AAL2

Automated Anatomical Labeling 2: a parcellation in standard MNI space subdividing the cerebrum and cerebellum into anatomical regions.

120 regions · cortical + cerebellar
Functional

Yeo-17

Large-scale cortical parcellation dividing the cerebral cortex into 17 intrinsic functional networks from resting-state fMRI connectivity.

17 networks · bilateral
White matter

Pandora-TractSeg

White-matter tract parcellation from the Pandora dataset, aggregating multi-cohort diffusion MRI processed with the TractSeg framework.

72 tracts · white matter
White matter

JHU ICBM labels 2mm

Probabilistic, population-based parcellation of major white matter tracts and selected gray matter regions from diffusion and structural MRI.

48 regions · white matter
White matter

JHU ICBM labels 1mm

Johns Hopkins white-matter labels atlas at 1mm resolution, defining major tracts and pathways.

48 regions · white matter
White matter

JHU ICBM tracts 2mm

Probabilistic atlas of major white-matter fiber tracts derived from diffusion tractography.

20 regions · white matter
White matter

JHU ICBM tracts 1mm

Probabilistic atlas of major white-matter fiber tracts at 1mm resolution.

20 regions · white matter
Subcortical

Thalamus maxprob thr25 2mm

Probabilistic parcellation of the human thalamus from diffusion-weighted MRI connectivity profiles, classifying thalamic voxels by cortical connectivity.

7 regions · subcortical
Subcortical

Thalamus maxprob thr25 1mm

Probabilistic parcellation of the human thalamus into major nuclei from connectivity profiles, at 1mm resolution.

7 regions · subcortical
Whole-brain

MNI Structural 2mm

Coarse structural parcellation of the brain into major lobes and subcortical structures.

9 regions · whole-brain
Whole-brain

MNI Structural 1mm

Coarse structural parcellation of the brain into major lobes and subcortical structures, at 1mm resolution.

9 regions · whole-brain
Subcortical

HarvardOxford sub 2mm

Probabilistic atlas of subcortical gray-matter structures in standard space.

21 regions · subcortical
Subcortical

HarvardOxford sub 1mm

Probabilistic atlas of subcortical gray-matter structures at 1mm resolution.

21 regions · subcortical
Cortical

HarvardOxford cort 2mm

Probabilistic parcellation of the cerebral cortex into anatomically defined regions.

48 regions · cortical
Cortical

HarvardOxford cort 1mm

Probabilistic parcellation of the cerebral cortex at 1mm resolution.

48 regions · cortical
Whole-brain

Juelich 2mm

Cytoarchitectonic atlas mapping cortical areas and subcortical nuclei across the brain.

121 regions · whole-brain
Whole-brain

Juelich 1mm

Cytoarchitectonic atlas mapping cortical areas and subcortical nuclei, at 1mm resolution.

121 regions · whole-brain
Whole-brain

Talairach labels 2mm

Hierarchical whole-brain labeling based on the Talairach coordinate system.

661 regions · whole-brain
Whole-brain

Talairach labels 1mm

Hierarchical whole-brain labeling based on the Talairach coordinate system, at 1mm resolution.

826 regions · whole-brain

Motivation

Reducing barriers in neuroimaging research

Brain atlases are essential for interpretation of results and communication, yet atlas choice can substantially affect research conclusions. Despite this, no publicly accessible, precomputed resource to compare regions across atlases in 3D has existed.

SPINS makes this comparison immediately accessible, with no software installation required. Each region page includes an AI-generated anatomical overview, rotating glass brain videos, and triplanar slice images.

Pipeline

Automated rendering at scale

01Atlas NIfTIs registered to MNI space; regions extracted per label
023D glass brain MP4s and GIFs rendered for each region
03Triplanar PNG slices generated for each region
04GPT-4o generates anatomical region descriptions
05Markdown pages built into a static site for hosting