Features

The nBIG gallery has the following novel features:

  • A hierarchical and systematic design with twelve image galleries (G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, G7, G8, G9, G10, G11, G12), each gallery divided into albums (and, optionally, sub-albums) with images.
  • Anatomic (G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, G7, G8, G9), brain function (G8), neurologic disorders (G11), and special theme and artistic (G12) galleries.
  • Single tissue class (G1) and multiple tissue class (G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, G7, G9) galleries.
  • G1 containing the primary tissue classes (26) and sub-classes (207) from which galleries G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, G7, and G9 are constructed.
  • The fixed number of tissue classes/sub-classes, one (G1), two (G2), three (G3), four and more (G4), and variable (G5 providing context). G6 (planar-surface), G7 (dissections), and G9 (multi-images/views) may be variable but typically G6 is single, G7 double, and G9 single or double class.
  • A systematic design in terms of standard views, modes of presentation, and spatially co-registered image sequences.
  • Anatomic structures displayed in six standard views (anterior (A), left (L), posterior (P), right (R), superior (S), and inferior (I)), each view with the same brain size; for certain situations, additional arbitrary views are included.
  • In each view, the images are shown as sequences in three standard modes of presentation (as non-parcellated unlabeled, parcellated unlabeled, and parcellated labeled).
  • Two types of spatially co-registered image sequences, an appearance image sequence (for standard views in G1, G2, G3, G4, G7) and a context image sequence (in G5); the sequences imitate image layers with labeled and unlabeled images and various parcellations (determined by color maps) as well as enable creating animations (view the image sequences in the full-screen display and scroll images with the left/right arrows). In addition, G6 employs pairs of the corresponding 2D (reconstructed as a triplanar) and 2D-3D images.
  • Color-coded neuroanatomic content making the brain beautiful and facilitating its learning and understanding; the cerebrum and white matter tracts have multiple color maps.
  • A unique coding of image names (see Image list) with the image index incorporated into the image name enabling image searching based only on the image name (i.e., without additional image indexing).
  • Double image representation, TIFF for quality (downloading) and JPEG for speed (display).
  • Within a selected (sub-)album the images can be scrolled, zoomed, and searched.
  • A selected image can be saved (downloaded) in TIFF (click the Download this file icon on the top bar on the right).
  • Web-based, runs on notebooks and mobile devices. Note: keep your browser updated and JavaScript allowed.
  • Freely available and easily affordable; no registration required.
  • The nBIG gallery is extendable and future versions are in progress (so far versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, and 1.3.4 are released).

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