New standards streamline brain tumor surgery

Low-grade brain tumors known as IDH-mutant gliomas CNS WHO grade 2 are life-threatening in spite of their slow growth.
IEEE

MBUNeXt: Multibranch Encoder Aggregation Network Based on Layer-Fusion Strategy for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation

Abstract: Multimodal brain tumor segmentation (BraTS), integrated with surgical robots and navigation systems, enables accurate surgical interventions while maximizing the preservation of surrounding ...
NPR

Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease

Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of neural tissue model aspects of ...
The Debrief

Consciousness May Depend on the Physics of the Brain, Not Just Code

Most modern theories of consciousness fall into two main groups. Computational functionalism argues that mental states required for consciousness depend solely on how a system processes information.
IEEE

Vox-MMSD: Voxel-wise Multi-scale and Multi-modal Self-Distillation for Self-supervised Brain Tumor Segmentation

Abstract: Many deep learning methods have been proposed for brain tumor segmentation from multi-modal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans that are important for accurate diagnosis and treatment ...