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 gray matter, white matter, and functional labels.
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Available atlases
brainCOLOR
Manually labeled human neuroanatomical parcellation delineating hundreds of cortical and subcortical structures on high-resolution MRI.
AAL
Automated Anatomical Labeling atlas: a macroanatomical parcellation dividing the cortex and some subcortical structures by sulcal landmarks.
AAL2
Automated Anatomical Labeling 2: a parcellation in standard MNI space subdividing the cerebrum and cerebellum into anatomical regions.
Yeo-17
Large-scale cortical parcellation dividing the cerebral cortex into 17 intrinsic functional networks from resting-state fMRI connectivity.
Pandora-TractSeg
White-matter tract parcellation from the Pandora dataset, aggregating multi-cohort diffusion MRI processed with the TractSeg framework.
JHU ICBM labels 2mm
Probabilistic, population-based parcellation of major white matter tracts and selected gray matter regions from diffusion and structural MRI.
Thalamus maxprob thr25 2mm
Probabilistic parcellation of the human thalamus from diffusion-weighted MRI connectivity profiles, classifying thalamic voxels by cortical connectivity.
Thalamus maxprob thr25 1mm
Probabilistic parcellation of the human thalamus into major nuclei from connectivity profiles, at 1mm resolution.
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.
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