Build A Brain
###Automate the Comparing of Image Values to Reverse Engineer Dinosaur Brains
####Background
A current research project at the museum is rebuilding the brain structures from reverse casts of fossil skulls. This is done manually by visually checking greyscale values in many hundreds of CT scan TIFF image files. Expensive proprietary software is currently being used to build these 3D models based on the image stacks. Automation of this process could save incredible amounts of time and rapidly advance the state of the research. Is it possible to use machine learning, machine vision, medical imaging advances to address this?
####Solutions
- Software which
####Resources
- Example video of brain reconstruction
- Information about the AMNH CT scanner
- GE Phoenix CT scanner
- myVGL viewer - freely available software to view vg project files
- Description of manual process with examples of how it is currently done
- CT image stacks
- ImageJ2 - used to enhance contrast in grayscale images, could be useful for many aspects of solutions for this challenge
