An anatomofunctional brain knowledge

This study proposes the elaboration of a fusion model into two kinds of data for patients presenting sequelae of focal brain damage : anatomical and functional. The aim of our model is to merge these two kinds of information to help diagnosis and to contribute to the comprehension of the neural basis of cognitive functions. On one hand, interrelationships between anatomic elements constitute an anatomical graph. On the other, each elementary cognitive function and its relationships correspond to a functional graph. From these two graphs, the construction of an intergraph is developed based on some anatomofunctional rules. These rules allow the expression of anatomofunctional knowledge. This model has been implemented in software which will soon be used by clinician and researchers.