Incorporate Neurosynth data into PySurfer

[mwaskom]

This is a placeholder for some functionality I'd like to add at some point. I think it would be nice to be able to do, e.g.

brain.add_neurosynth_term("executive", "reverse")

And get a map with the reverse inference statistics for the term "executive" plotted.

I used to have a toy notebook to do something similar, but the downloading API has changed and so that no longer works.

We'd probably want to go straight from the coordinates to the surface anyway, rather than detouring through a volume image.

CC: @tyarkoni who will probably have quick answers to questions that come up when I start actually working on this

[dengemann]

This is a placeholder for some functionality I'd like to add at some point. I think it would be nice to be able to do, e.g.

+++100

[tyarkoni]

That would be great! Neurosynth has a REST API that should be more or less operational, so you should already be able to grab images pretty easily. E.g., if you want the reverse inference map for executive, you can get the JSON data from:

http://neurosynth.org/features/executive.json

The returned object has an 'images' field, which is a list of all available images (typically with just the forward and reverse images). Based on the ID (which you can pick out by, e.g., doing a regex search for 'reverse'), you can then fetch the reverse inference image directly:

http://neurosynth.org/images/225/download

Hope that helps!

[mwaskom]

Cool, I'm glad there is enthusiasm for this. Thanks Tal, that will be very helpful.