Sponsored by RIKEN BSI in cooperation with
the NRV project under MEXT, Japan
This workshop is supported by RIKEN BSI and the NRV Project (PI: Shiro
Usui) under MEXT, Japan. In a recent report from the OECD Megascience
Forum the new field of neuroinformatics (NI)
was defined as "the combination of neuroscience and information
sciences to develop and apply advanced tools and approaches essential
for a major advancement in understanding the structure and function of
the brain." In the context of this and other international activities,
the present workshop will discuss a possible future scope for NI
related areas in brain and nervous systems function, especially on
visual function. In the morning session, several friends outside Japan
who are attending the OECD NI-WG meeting will actively participate in
the workshop. In the afternoon, we start the session by reviewing the
different "Japanese Activities in Brain Science" - from gene to
brain. Then, we focus on NRV (Neuro informatics Research in Vision)
project, with activities consisting mostly of demonstrations of the
tentative Visiome Platform.
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10:00
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Opening Address
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Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
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OECD and US-EU Activities on Neuroinformatics:
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Neuroinformatics: An enabling approach toward
understanding nervous system function and structure
through data sharing and modeling.
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Stephen H. Koslow (NIMH, USA)
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Realistic modeling of the cerebellum
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Erik De Schutter (Univ.Antwerp, Belgium)
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Brain Atlasing in health and disease
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Arthur W. Toga (UCLA, USA)
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Measuring and modeling networks of human brain
function using PET and MR neuroimaging, EEG, and
statistical modeling techniques.
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Gary F. Egan (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
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13:30
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Activities on Brain Science Research in Japan
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Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
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Brain Genomics: Cerebellar Development
Transcriptome Project
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Teiichi Furuichi (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
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Visiome Platform by NRV project:
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Overview of NRV Project
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Shiro Usui (Toyohashi Univ. of Tech., Japan)
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Visiome Platform: A Neuroinformatics Database for
Neuronal Visual System
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Isao Yamaguchi (Corp. Res. Center, Fuji Xerox., Japan)
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Blind Signal Separation and Extraction in
Application to Biomedical Signal, Images and Time
Series Analysis
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Andrej Cichocki (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
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Models and Simulator on cellular level
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Hiroyoshi Miyakawa (Tokyo Univ.of Pharm.& Life Sci., Japan)
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Biochemical and Biophysical Modeling of Synaptic
Plasticity in a Spine using A-Cell
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Kazuhisa Ichikawa (Corp. Res. Center, Fuji Xerox., Japan)
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Neurinformatics Study on the Vertebrate Retina
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Yoshimi Kamiyama (Aichi Pref. Univ., Japan)
Shiro Usui (Toyohasi Univ. of Tech., Japan)
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Computational Models for Color Perception
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Shigeki Nakauchi (Toyohashi Univ. of Tech., Japan)
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Effect of Lateral Connections on the Orientation
and Direction Selectivity in the Visual Cortex: Model
Study
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Shigeru Tanaka (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
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Neuroinformatics of the Early Visual Cortex: Model,
Computation, and Data
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Izumi Ohzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
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17:00
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Closing Remarks
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Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
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17:10
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Reception at BSI
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18:30
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Non Host Dinner
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