The Belgian Neuroinformatics Node is network of research labs and individual fellows who foster understanding of Neuroscience through formal methods and automation of data analysis. Our goal is to understand how different types of brains work. The network is associated to the International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (INCF), where Belgium was a former member country. Neuroinformatics is a research field concerned with the processing and organization of neuroscience data by the application of principles of computer science and state of the art software design methodologies. The Neuroinformatics provides generic and interoperable computational tools, mathematical models, and databases for Neurosciences.
Why Neuroinformatics?
With the diversity of the data generated in neuroscience, going from the genetic and molecular level to cognitive functions and the diversity of acquisition systems, the necessity of developing software tools, standards to describe the data and proper models appears crucial for a better integration of these heterogeneous data for further understanding the brain.

What is INCF?
INCF is an international network fostering neuroinformatics expertise to support collaboration throughout the global brain research community. The mission of INCF is to accelerate advances in understanding and treating the brain through the development of neuroinformatics – applying the best practices of data science to challenges in basic and clinical brain research. The INCF network consists of
Governing Nodes: Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Sweden
Associated Nodes: Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, USA
News
Call: Special Issue “Neuroinformatics and Signal Processing”
March 23, 2021
GSOC 2021 on YouTube
March 22, 2021
GSOC 2021
March 22, 2021
FENS Jobs Market
- Post-doctoral position in Lausanne/Switzerland
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Neuroinformatics News
- 2021 ISI/WSC Summer Course: Data Science and Predictive Analytics (June 16-17, 2021)
- Ten summers with Google Summer of Code
- Call for community review: Five Recommendations for FAIR Software, guidelines that aim to apply the FAIR principles to software
- Researcher (Joint Position with NYU CNS), Center for Computational Neuroscience
- Google Summer of Code 2021
Meeting updates
Recent Neuroinformatics papers
- Volume Reduction Techniques for the Classification of Independent Components of rs-fMRI Data: a Study with Convolutional Neural Networks
- Musclesense: a Trained, Artificial Neural Network for the Anatomical Segmentation of Lower Limb Magnetic Resonance Images in Neuromuscular Diseases
- Supervised Multidimensional Scaling and its Application in MRI-Based Individual Age Predictions
- Tractography Processing with the Sparse Closest Point Transform
- Statistical Analysis of Graph-Theoretic Indices to Study EEG-TMS Connectivity in Patients With Depression
- WISDoM: Characterizing Neurological Time Series With the Wishart Distribution
- Whom to Believe? Understanding and Modeling Brain Activity in Source Credibility Evaluation
- NeuroRA: A Python Toolbox of Representational Analysis From Multi-Modal Neural Data