Research summary
The goal of neuroinformatics is to advance brain and nervous system research by designing a computational system that can integrate the diverse amount of knowledge and research we have on these parts of the body. As Canada Research Chair in Neuroinformatics for Multimodal Data, Dr. Sylvain Bouix is developing open neuroinformatics resources (technology and data) to leverage the power of large multimodal datasets in order to improve our understanding of the brain.
He and his research team are developing new neuroimaging methods to study brain morphometry (the size, volume and shape characteristics of different brain structures and tissue types) and structural connectivity (the patterns and integrity of white matter connections between neural elements). They are also designing a flexible neuroinformatics ecosystem to manage and explore heterogeneous multimodal and longitudinal neuroscience data. Ultimately, their aim is to design technology and datasets to support rigorous, reproducible, accessible, interoperable and less biased analyses.