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A platform of digital brain using crowd power

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A powerful platform of digital brain is proposed using crowd wisdom for brain research, based on the computational artificial intelligence model of synthesis reasoning and multi-source analogical generating. The design of the platform aims to make it a comprehensive brain database, a brain phantom generator, a brain knowledge base, and an intelligent assistant for research on neurological and psychiatric diseases and brain development. Using big data, crowd wisdom, and high performance computers may significantly enhance the capability of the platform. Preliminary achievements along this track are reported.

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Special thanks to Professor Yunhe Pan for the inspiring meeting and discussion in 2014, which initialized this work.

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  2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

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Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFC1308502) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81471734)

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Xu, D., Dai, F. & Lu, Y. A platform of digital brain using crowd power. Frontiers Inf Technol Electronic Eng 19, 78–90 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1700800

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