Laboratory for Neuroinformatics
Laboratory Head
Shiro USUI (Ph.D.)
Neuroscience is advancing rapidly and many important results have been published in recent years. One important role of neuroinformatics (NI) is to provide and maintain different databases related to brain sciences. To achieve this goal, the laboratory has developed a base NI platform:XooNIps, which can be easily customized to support the various requirements of the different brain databases and their portals. This system is currently being maintained under the supervision of the Neuroinformatics Japan Center. Aside from this major project, which is global in scope, the laboratory is also developing NI technologies geared for the individual researcher, such as a personal data and meta-information manager: Concierge, simulation software: Satellite, modeling and graphing tools: Samurai Graph, indexing and visualization tools: 3D-SE Viewer, and keyword extraction and document search tool: Related Abstract Search tool. Moreover, as a concrete research example for the evaluation of a knowledge integration system, we are carrying on research to collect and integrate findings from the various levels of the visual system, from single retinal neuron to higher visual function, by developing mathematical models from electrophysiological and psychophysical experiments.
- Development of database content visualization technology
- Research resources management tool: Concierge
- Collaborative base platform for large scale brain model: Plato
- Neuroscience research in vision
- Computational neuroscience research in vision
- August 03, 2007
- Towards the creation of Astro Boy's brain
- Usui S, Kamiji NL, Taniguchi T, Ueda N:
"RAST: finding related documents based on triplet similarity"
Neural Computing and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s00521-010-0392-6 (2010) - Kawano T, Harimoto T, Ishihara A, Takei K, Kawashima T, Usui S, Ishida M:
"Electrical interfacing between neurons and electronics via vertically integrated sub-4μm-diameter silicon probe arrays fabricated by vapor-liquid-solid growth"
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 25(7), 1809-1815 (2010) - Sasaki H, Satoh S, Usui S:
"Neural implementation of coarse-to-fine processing in V1 simple neurons"
Neurocomputing 73(4-6), 867-873 (2010) - Sasaki H, Satoh S:
"Super resolution: another computational role of short-range horizontal connection in the primary visual cortex"
Neural Networks 22(4), 362-372 (2009) - Kamiyama Y, Wu SM, Usui S:
"Simulation analysis of bandpass filtering properties of a rod photoreceptor network"
Vision Research 49(9), 970-978 (2009) - Satoh S, Usui S:
"Engineering-Approach Accelerates Computational Understanding of V1-V2 Neural properties"
Cognitive Neurodynamics 3(1), 1-8 (2009) - Yonehara K, Ishikane H, Sakuta H, Shintani T, Yonehara K, Kamiji NL, Usui S, Noda M:
"Identification of Retinal Ganglion Cells and Their Projections Involved in Central Transmission of Information about Upward and Downward Image Motion"
PLoS ONE 4(1), e4320, 1-14 (2009) - Satoh S, Usui S:
"Computational theory and applications of a filling-in process at the blind spot"
Neural Networks 21, 1261-1271 (2008) - Naud A, Usui S:
"Exploration of a collection of documents in neuroscience and extraction of topics by clustering"
Neural Networks 21, 1205-1211 (2008) - Usui S, Palmes P, Nagata K, Taniguchi T, Ueda N:
"Keyword extraction, ranking, and organization for the neuroinformatics platform"
BioSystems 88, 334-342 (2007)