Virtual Reality for Understanding Multidimensional Spatiotemporal Phenomena in Neuroscience

Abstract

Figure 1: a) Traditional approach for the analysis of brain spatial and temporal datasets with two different tools. b) Our approach for understanding spatiotemporal phenomena in a brain with the situated context information.

Designing a Topic-Based Literature Exploration Tool in AR - An exploratory study for neuroscience

“…Epilepsy Pre-Evaluation Space tool (EPES) connects MRI and iEEG data by labeling, coloring and animation in a VR environment. The authors show that employing VR for presurgical epilepsy evaluation can help integrate iEEG and MRI data and visualize seizure propagation [1]. Our tool is different from previous work by supporting users in exploring brain-related topics from the literature and their interrelations, and presenting them in an immersive environment.…”

“…Literature exploration is a fundamental task in any research endeavor. While searching for individual papers is the traditional approach to exploring literature, one of its key drawbacks is the difficulty to explore complex relations among topics 1 . We postulate that much effort can be saved, however, by allowing researchers to explore literature via topics.…”

“…One of a neuroscientist's research goals is to identify high-potential relations that could form the basis for a future experiment. Assessing which experiment should be run next requires an understanding of which relations are regarded as established in the literature and which are novel or unproven 1 .…”