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From journal articles to computational models: a new automated tool

Automated methods can now extract brain-image coordinates appearing in hundreds of publications in targeted topic areas and then integrate these data to form computational models that classify new brain-image data.

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Figure 1: Automated machine-learning–based meta-analysis of fMRI data.

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Mitchell, T. From journal articles to computational models: a new automated tool. Nat Methods 8, 627–628 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1661

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