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FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.633438
Keywords
processing workflows; neuroimaging; quality control; data management; neuroinformatics; cohort studies
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- la Caixa Foundation [100010434, LCF/PR/GN17/50300004]
- Universities and Research Secretariat, Ministry of Business and Knowledge of the Catalan In review 16 Government [2017-SGR-892]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [RYC-2013-13054]
- EU/EFPIA Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking AMYPAD [115952]
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades [RTI2018-102261]
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The paper proposes a practical model guided by core principles to address the challenge of dealing with large imaging datasets. This model is based on the experience from a long-term research center and provides a toolkit ecosystem to help improve quality control and facilitate data sharing.
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing number of large to very large imaging studies, prominently in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. The datasets collected during these studies form essential resources for the research aiming at new biomarkers. Collecting, hosting, managing, processing, or reviewing those datasets is typically achieved through a local neuroinformatics infrastructure. In particular for organizations with their own imaging equipment, setting up such a system is still a hard task, and relying on cloud-based solutions, albeit promising, is not always possible. This paper proposes a practical model guided by core principles including user involvement, lightweight footprint, modularity, reusability, and facilitated data sharing. This model is based on the experience from an 8-year-old research center managing cohort research programs on Alzheimer's disease. Such a model gave rise to an ecosystem of tools aiming at improved quality control through seamless automatic processes combined with a variety of code libraries, command line tools, graphical user interfaces, and instant messaging applets. The present ecosystem was shaped around XNAT and is composed of independently reusable modules that are freely available on GitLab/GitHub. This paradigm is scalable to the general community of researchers working with large neuroimaging datasets.
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