RE: {Disarmed} Gyri of the human neocortex: an MRI-based analysis of volume and variance -- Kennedy et al. 8 (4): 372 -- Cerebral Cortex

You're absolutely correct, there needs to be a commonly used ontology but
there isn't and there won't be until it's in the public domain. Building one
is an enormous task so the best scenario would be that individuals or
organizations that already have an ontology put it into the public domain.
That'll only be the first step, however.

 

As I'm sure you're well aware, most all of neuroanatomy is based on
operational definitions (often not agreed upon), and many of those
definitions are based on outmoded observations. Neuroanatomy will likely go
through a period of transformation as we're able to analytically and
statistically map meaningful results (molecular, physiological, etc.) to
brain structures.

 

Don

 

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Subject: {Disarmed} Gyri of the human neocortex: an MRI-based analysis of
volume and variance -- Kennedy et al. 8 (4): 372 -- Cerebral Cortex

 

One example of why you want to use the same neuroanatomical ontology as the
practicing neuroanatomists do. (See citing papers.)

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