Brain Art Competition 2021
Winners announcement at OHBM June 24, Club Night
"Output-of-Hacking"
The spatial submission from the OHBM Hackathon 2021
Flooding brains - Compilation of animated Okapi, Giraffe, and Dolphin cortices
Tutorial and code: https://github.com/ofgulban/flooding_brains
--Omer Faruk Gulban
Big Data & Me
Edgy connectomics (#1)
-- Rick Betzel
Brain with Big Data (#3)
-- Nikhil Bhagwat
26,000 resolution elements (#2)
-- Celesti Kozub
Pictures to Prose
Synaptogenesis (#4)
-- Anna Pan
Yes We Can (#5)
Yi-Ju Lee
Brain is the reason why... (#6)
Yi-Ju Lee
Catching Butterflies (#7)
Natasha Clarke
Nothingness as a State of Mind (#8)
Marzia Martina
Acknowledgements (#9)
Manuel J. Marte
Still Images
Untitled (#10)
-- Yiming Xiao
Spinal cord monster (#12)
This is an axial slice of the neck that appears like the face of a monster. The nose is the spinal cord, the eyes are arteries. The white face boundary was manually drawn.
-- Rangaprakash Deshpande
Head in the Clouds (#14)
This MRI was taken of my brain after a skull fracture and concussion. It represents the expansion of the mind that comes through healing.
-- Saige Rutherford
Electrodes in Space (#17)
Deep Brain Stimulation
-- Andreas Horn
Fornix Visualized with Snake Skin (#19)
Fornix left and right tracts visualized with snake skin print
-- Bramsh Qamar Chandio
Bundle Analytics - Arcuate Fasciculus (#21)
Bundle Analytics (BUAN) in action! Distance from centroid streamline points to the rest of the streamlines points of Arcuate Fasciculus
-- Bramsh Qamar Chandio
The fantastic average Joe (#11)
3D rendering of a population-averaged brain atlas
-- Yiming Xiao
Kiss (#13)
Cancer complicates about 1 in 1000 pregnancies. Luckily, we recently found that treatment during pregnancy doesn't need to impair the neurodevelopment of the child (Blommaert et al. 2020), adding to the growing evidence that cancer treatment during pregnancy is possible.
-- Jeroen Blommaert
Brain Blossom (#15)
A newly discovered, highly specialized plant: the brain blossom. A natural enigma.
-- Saige Rutherford
Pain in the brain (#16)
-- Martin Lotze
Dive to the Barine (#18)
-- Zhipeng Cao
Cingulum bundle with Nazar Boncuk printed on it (#20)
Cingulum bundle with Nazar Boncuk printed on it to keep reviewer# 2 away from your manuscript ;)
-- Bramsh Qamar Chandio
Purkinje Mustard (#22)
Acrylic painting of a Purkinje cell inspired by drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Purkinje cells were first discovered in 1839, by Jan Evangelista Purkyne.
-- Lizbeth J. Ayoub
Machine Hallucination Tractography (#23)
DTI Data from the Lifespan Human Connectome Project was used to train a Generative Adversarial Network to create a DTI tensor field on which deterministic tractography was run. In this way, we generated a tractogram of a machine imagined brain inspired by HCP big data. Multiple renders are provided including the tractogram, close ups of the resolution of the tractogram, and brownian motion renderings within the tractogram.
-- Taylor P Kuhn
Connections. what is my actual mind? (#24)
What is my actual mind? Just a few ideas in the world. Connections are what make us so-called distinctive.
-- tuğçe kahraman demir
The Muscogee Brain (#29)
An indigenous perspective on human neuroanatomy.
-- Leana King
Princess Neuron (#30)
Sometimes the body is the best canvas. Especially, when you try to show what hides inside you.
-- Olga Buivolova
Proces (#25)
-- Biljana Zivkovic
Sive celije (#26)
-- Biljana Zivkovic
Crno bijelo (#27)
-- Biljana Zivkovic
Red point (#28)
-- Biljana Zivkovic
Brain Micro-vasculature Template (#35)
Micro-vascular template of cerebral vessels (n=34) obtained using a high-resolution susceptibility-weighted imaging based MICRO protocol. Vessel enhancement was induced by administering ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxides (USPIO).
-- Sagar Buch
Pyramidal flowers painted on a hippocampal canvas (#37)
Multi-photon captured z stack of pyramidal neurons in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in a Thy-1 YFP expressing mouse. The captured z stack was converted into a z project image in Image J (FiJi) and had a LUT adjustment to produce the brilliant orange/purple colour scheme. The intense detail of the multi-photon image captures fragments of surrounding neurons producing a paint splatter effect.
-- Kristie Smith
Ms. Florence (#39)
-- Mari Shishikura
Me, The Brain and The World (#41)
The brain connectivity implies our relationships with where we come from (the lower part) and the environment (the upper part).
-- Yi-Ju Lee
Choice (#44)
Can I choose my look?
--Yi-Ju Lee
The neural manifold of social interaction (#46)
The continuous reciprocal exchange during social interaction is crucial for us as human beings. This image shows the beauty of social interaction by visualizing the synchrony of two interacting people via neural signals and wavelet coherence. Graphic: Michael Schmitz for Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy. Analyses by doctoral researcher Christian Gerloff.
-- Michael Schmitz
Complex Symmetry in Brain Circuitry
-- Rick L Garner
Stitched
Embroidery stitching together different kinds and styles of neurons
-- Michelle Sheena
Colors of Music in brain (#36)
Music for plastic brain [Artistic representation of Auditory processing BOLD activity (fMRI) on anatomical slice in a functional hearing disorder patient]
-- Sunita Gudwani
Microglia Up in Smoke (#38)
-- Kristie Smith
Éclosion-Blooming (#40)
Ideas bloom in the brain, neuronal connections grow and die, like the birth and death of a flower. The brain stem is "tronc cérébral" in French, "tronc" meaning trunk. The cerebellum and brain stem are represented here as the roots of the brain vegetation.
-- Flavie Detcheverry
The Beautiful Brain (#42)
This painting is a cross-generational collaboration. The skill includes underlying prints and scratches. The color implies the dynamic brain activation.
-- Yi-Ju Lee & Li-Men Chung
My Brain Think, Therefore I Am (#43)
Material: colored pencils
-- Yi-Ju Lee and Li-Men Chung
Through the eyes of our brain (#45)
Through the lens of imaging techniques we look as an outside observer into the deep oscillatory nature of one of the most complex organic systems to link neural measures with human-made abstract concepts. The eye represents the circularity in the process of research to fit empirical data of a self-organising system with constructed theories of that system. Graphic: Michael Schmitz for Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy. Analyses by doctoral researcher Christian Gerloff.
-- Michael Schmitz
Neural Network (#47)
The brain’s multi-system organization involves advanced signal processing and network connectivity across structures. The tree and leaves reflect the arborization of these neural connections that can be shaped by environmental influences (*lo-res version submitted due to max file size restriction)
-- Colin Filbey
Complex Symmetry in Brain Circuitry (#49)
-- Rick L Garner
Beautiful Mistake
Abstractography (#50)
-- Piyush Maiti
Bundle Analytics - Tractometry - Arcuate Fasciculus (#52)
Bundle Analytics (BUAN) in action! Distance from centroid streamline points to the rest of the streamlines points of Arcuate Fasciculus. Looks like caterpillar.
-- Bramsh Qamar Chandio
Corpus Callosum or a Spider? (#53)
-- Bramsh Qamar Chandio
Cerebellareyes (#51)
-- Andreas Horn
It's a living brain! (#54)
My sister's fist looks like a living brain and attempting to mimic how the left temporal lobe would work.
-- Yi-Ju Lee, Christine Lee
Cerebroculumulus (#55)
Preprocessing step in aligning a hemispherectomized brain to an MNI template
-- Michael Granovetter, Daniel Glen, & Marlene Behrmann
Videos and Animations
Meandering the mind (#56)
-- Alexander Leemans
The soaped brain (#57)
-- Alexander Leemans
Colorful callosal commissure connections (#58)
-- Alexander Leemans
Brainbow (#59)
-- Alexander Leemans
3D Polarized Light Imaging - Towards a 3D fiber atlas of the brain (#60)
-- Markus Axer
Who am I (#61)
-- Danica Stanimirovic
SM Gen1 Info (#62)
https://mirkofebbo.wixsite.com/mirkofebboportfolio/conscience
-- Mirko Febbo
Butterfly brain stack animation (#63)
-- Yipeng Toh
3D volume rendering of a butterfly's (B.anynana) brain (#64)
-- Yipeng Toh
Brain vessels in Christmas colors (#67)
3D representation of the cerebral micro-vasculature obtained using a vesselness filter on the high-resolution susceptibility-weighted MICRO data. Vessel enhancement was induced by administering ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxides (USPIO). The cerebral vessels resemble the small branches of a tree, visualized in red-green Christmas aesthetic.
-- Sagar Buch
Reproducible processing of 41,180 brain images from the UK Biobank with DataLad (#68)
-- Adina Wagner (on behalf of all authors)
Fiery progression through the z dimension of the mouse cortex revealed with light-sheet microscopy (#69)
-- Kristie Smith
Fluorescent illumination of the hippocampal formation (#70)
-- Kristie Smith
Animating Hebb's Three Postulates from Brain to Soma (#73)
This video is a behavioral neuroscience teaching tool. It’s the product of over 2000 hours of design and hand-drawn animation. The work was initially drawn by hand in a sketchbook and later redrawn and animated in photoshop. Its most unique contribution is in explaining Hebb’s third postulate. This is done by illustrating the process by which an external stimulus can trigger a train of thought while still maintaining the real-life relevance of the animation narrative. More information (link)
-- Soma Barsen
Human Connectome Project - AI Data Sculpture (The 1st video) (#74)
Through collaboration between Dr. Taylor Kuhn, coordinator of the Human Connectome Project (HCP) at UCLA, and technology partners Siemens and NVIDIA, Refik Anadol Studio (RAS) develops a dynamic network at the intersection of neuroscience and art to study fundamental questions about the human brain.
This experience showcases visual re-imaginings of the relationship between form (spatial connections) and function (temporal connections) of the human mind.
--Taylor P Kuhn