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ArticleFrontiers in neuroinformatics2019

Visbrain: A Multi-Purpose GPU-Accelerated Open-Source Suite for Multimodal Brain Data Visualization.

Etienne Combrisson, Raphael Vallat, Christian O'Reilly, Mainak Jas, Annalisa Pascarella, Anne-Lise Saive, Thomas Thiery, David Meunier, Dmitrii Altukhov, Tarek Lajnef and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in neuroinformatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Etienne CombrissonComputational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab), Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Raphael VallatLyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition team, INSERM UMRS 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Christian O'ReillyBlue Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland.
Mainak JasComputational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab), Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Annalisa PascarellaInstitute for Applied Mathematics Mauro Picone, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
Anne-Lise SaiveComputational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab), Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Thomas ThieryComputational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab), Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
David MeunierAix Marseille Univ, CNRS, INT, Inst Neurosci Timone, Marseille, France.
Dmitrii AltukhovNational Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Tarek LajnefComputational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab), Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Perrine RubyLyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition team, INSERM UMRS 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Aymeric GuillotInter-University Laboratory of Human Movement Biology, University of Lyon, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France.
Karim JerbiComputational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab), Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Université de Montréal · CAUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHHôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal · CAIstituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone · ITNational Research University Higher School of Economics · RU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present Visbrain, a Python open-source package that offers a comprehensive visualization suite for neuroimaging and electrophysiological brain data. Visbrain consists of two levels of abstraction: (1) objects which represent highly configurable neuro-oriented visual primitives (3D brain, sources connectivity, etc.) and (2) graphical user interfaces for higher level interactions. The object level offers flexible and modular tools to produce and automate the production of figures using an approach similar to that of Matplotlib with subplots. The second level visually connects these objects by controlling properties and interactions through graphical interfaces. The current release of Visbrain (version 0.4.2) contains 14 different objects and three responsive graphical user interfaces, built with PyQt:

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