Research issues and mining techniques in Brain Informatics

This paper discusses the novel area of Brain Informatics (BI). BI is an interdisciplinary field that studies Information processing and Neuroscience. First section of the paper discusses this area and identifies major research issues associated with BI. Second section provides a comprehensive literature survey of neuroimaging techniques and their pros and cons. It then relates the most promising technique with its applications in BI. The third section discusses the process of classification. The design of classifiers in the context of BI and use of classification in BI is then discussed. The fifth section discusses the applications of analysis of neuroimaging data. The final section concludes the paper and provides directions for future work.