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You’re absolutely correct, there needs to be a commonly used ontology but there isn’t and there won’t be until it’s in the public domain. Building one is an enormous task so the best scenario would be that individuals or organizations that already have an ontology put it into the public domain. That’ll only be the first step, however.
As I’m sure you’re well aware, most all of neuroanatomy is based on operational definitions (often not agreed upon), and many of those definitions are based on outmoded observations. Neuroanatomy will likely go through a period of transformation as we’re able to analytically and statistically map meaningful results (molecular, physiological, etc.) to brain structures.
Don
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One example of why you want to use the same neuroanatomical ontology as the practicing neuroanatomists do. (See citing papers.) [snip] |
Title: Gyri of the human neocortex: an MRI-based analysis of volume and
variance -- Kennedy et al. 8 (4): 372 -- Cerebral Cortex
