Neurosynth

Mining the neuroimaging literature New tools for literature mining, such as automated analysis of the research literature, are accessible, scalable, and reliable.

Our latest paper outlining our ecosystem of tools for mining the neuroimaging literature, is finally officially published in eLife! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

OpenNeuro?

You can try AI-Assisted Curation today 👉 compose.neurosynth.org

Read the full blog post for details on validation, schemas, and what’s next:
🔗 neurostuff.github.io/compose-docs...

Feedback + ideas welcome on NeuroStars

This is an ongoing, community-driven effort:

- Evaluation annotations are open on GitHub
- Pipelines are transparent
- Feedback from users helps refine schemas

We welcome contributions for new features to extract, and annotations to evaluate!

Unlike other general-purpose AI review tools, however, we focus specifically on neuroimaging.

We uses expert-designed, validated schemas for neuroimaging — ensuring extracted study details are accurate enough to trust in a meta-analysis.

Instead of digging through PDFs, you’ll see a concise table + detailed study pages with AI-extracted info like:

- Participant counts, age ranges, diagnoses

- Imaging modalities

- Task names, conditions, and design details

This makes PRISMA-compliant screening faster, easier, and transparent.

🚀 New in Neurosynth Compose: AI-Assisted Curation

Curating studies for a neuroimaging meta-analysis usually takes hundreds of hours. Our new feature uses LLMs + zero-shot learning to extract study details directly from full-text articles.

Try it now: 👉 compose.neurosynth.org

We welcome feedback on the preprint, and this serves as the official citiation for any meta-analyses generated on Neurosynth Compose (compose.neurosynth.org)

Finaly, we discuss the exciting global growth of the Neurosynth Compose platform, with a steady growth of registered users since our original launch in May 2022

Next, we go through the user facing workflow in the Neurosynth Compose web application.

(1) Search for studies using NeuroStore (2) Curation: Review for inclusion (3) Extraction: Coordinates are added/edited (4) Specification: Meta-analysis creation 5) Estimation: Unique bundle is executed

First, we cover the modular ecosystem architecture supporting Neurosynth Compose, marking a significant improvement over the legacy Neurosynth monolith.

This ensures long-term sustainability, and ensures a separation of concerns between the frontend, backend, and statistical modeling.

Excited to share our latest preprint: "Neurosynth Compose: A Web-Based Platform for Flexible and Reproducible Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis"

Here, we cover the why, what, and how of the next generation Neurosynth ecosystem for reproducible neuroimaging meta-analysis.

osf.io/preprints/os...

Naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain

@viktorkewenig.bsky.social shows that, while concepts generally encode habitual experiences, the underlying neurobiological organisation is not fixed but depends dynamically on available contextual information. 👏🍾🐐

elifesciences.org/articles/91522

For those that couldn't attend, here are the slides: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0n7gv...

Also, a partial recording: utexas.zoom.us/rec/share/oA...

Forgot to press record on time 🤦‍♂️

This is tomorrow! Sign up to join and guide my future.

In principle, definitely! We probably need to develop these features to encourage it more, but in you can in theory clone someone else's dataset to update their meta-analysis.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated! Neurosynth lives on. Stay synthy!

We also put together a half day Education Course for OHBM 2023 and uploaded all the videos/materials for public consumption here: neurostuff.github.io/meta-analysi...

If you want to learn more, check out the Tutorials on our Docs: neurostuff.github.io/compose-docs...

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Check it out! The future of Neurosynth.

We launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org