CHENNAI: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) on Tuesday released highly detailed 3D high-resolution images of the fetal brain.
This important work by Sudha Gopalkrishnan Brain Centre IIT Madras has pushed the frontiers of brain mapping technology and put India in the global league of brain mapping science as it is the first of its kind anywhere in the world.
This work will advance the field of neuroscience and potentially lead to the development of treatments for health conditions affecting the brain.
This landmark work is the first time that such advanced human neuroscience data has been generated from India. The project was carried out at less than 1/10th of the cost in Western countries.
The research was conducted by a multidisciplinary team from IIT Madras with researchers from India, Australia. USA, Romania and South Africa, and clinical collaborations with Medicin Systems and Swetha Medical College Hospital based in Chennai.
The research, led by Mohansankar Sivaprakasam, head of the Sudhagopalakrishnan Brain Center at IIT Madras, is important for India because, according to sources, the country accounts for about one-fifth of the 25 million births worldwide every year.
This makes it important for the country to understand the spectrum from fetus to child, through adolescence, and into a young adult, and developmental disorders such as learning disabilities and autism.
This work was supported by the office of Chris Gopalakrishnan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, IIT Infosys. Premji Invest. est, Fortis Healthcare Madras Distinguished Alumni and Co-Founder, and Agilus Diagnostics. NVIDIA, the leading Al company, partnered with the center to help process these petabytes of brain data.
Key applications for creating such high-resolution brain images are advances in current fetal imaging technologies, for early diagnosis and treatment of developmental disorders.
These research findings have been accepted for publication as a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Neurology, a century-old peer-reviewed systems neuroscience journal.
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India’s top-ranked institute of technology, has launched its state-of-the-art Sudha Gopalkrishnan Brain Center in 2022 to foster large-scale multidisciplinary efforts in the fields of science, technology, and technology. started Computing and medicine and mapping the Naumann brain at the cellular level. Its vision is to become a globally leading R&D center for human brain research with transformative impact in neuroscience and neurotechnologies.
The center has developed a world-class high-throughput histology pipeline that processes high-resolution digital images of entire human brains at the petabyte scale.
These unique first-in-class data sets of human brains from different species and ages provide an unprecedented high-resolution view of human brains that reveal cellular-level details throughout the brain.
In just two years, the center has obtained more than 200 brains of different types, ages (fetal, newborn, young adult, adult, geriatric) and diseases (stroke, dementia) from different medical institutions of the country, and processed them in cellular. what is being done resolution digital vol. through the center’s high-throughput imaging platform.
The center is in a unique position to achieve global leadership by developing the world’s largest collection of human brain data across a variety of species that will serve as a global reference for decades to come.