Open Source Technologies in Neuroscience
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2016 -- Geelong, Australia
Date: 06/02/2016

Gagan Sharma
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30235/view_talk
"With Simon Salinas"

In our Neuroscience research group, Linux has become a core technology for image processing and clinical study management. It is very suitable for tight research budgets, but our choice was dictated mainly by its excellent performance and reliability.

We have successfully implemented open source technology based systems (Linux, python, bash, DCMTK etc) which are very reliable, robust and scalable for handling the main dimensions of our work flow: (i.) Image processing, (ii.) visualization and (iii.) remote server management.

We will show how Linux has benefited Australian neuroscience research, not only by reducing costs, but also by improving the overall performance of highly relevant studies. While this talk highlights Linux/Open-Source applicability in Neuroscience, we believe the main concepts discussed could be applied to any other discipline, especially in scientific studies with an imaging component and high volumes of data.