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Harnessing Modern Web Application Technology To Create Intuitive And Efficient Data Visualization And Sharing Tools, Dylan Wood, Margaret D. King, Drew Landis, William Courtney, Runtang Wang, Ross Kelly, Jessica Turner, Vince D. Calhoun Jan 2014

Harnessing Modern Web Application Technology To Create Intuitive And Efficient Data Visualization And Sharing Tools, Dylan Wood, Margaret D. King, Drew Landis, William Courtney, Runtang Wang, Ross Kelly, Jessica Turner, Vince D. Calhoun

Psychology Faculty Publications

Neuroscientists increasingly need to work with big data in order to derive meaningful results in their field. Collecting, organizing and analyzing this data can be a major hurdle on the road to scientific discovery. This hurdle can be lowered using the same technologies that are currently revolutionizing the way that cultural and social media sites represent and share information with their users. Web application technologies and standards such as RESTful webservices, HTML5 and high-performance in-browser JavaScript engines are being utilized to vastly improve the way that the world accesses and shares information. The neuroscience community can also benefit tremendously from …


Automated Collection Of Imaging And Phenotypic Data To Centralized And Distributed Data Repositories, Margaret D. King, Dylan Wood, Brittny Miller, Ross Kelly, Drew Landis, William Courtney, Runtang Wang, Jessica A. Turner, Vince D. Calhoun Jan 2014

Automated Collection Of Imaging And Phenotypic Data To Centralized And Distributed Data Repositories, Margaret D. King, Dylan Wood, Brittny Miller, Ross Kelly, Drew Landis, William Courtney, Runtang Wang, Jessica A. Turner, Vince D. Calhoun

Psychology Faculty Publications

Accurate data collection at the ground level is vital to the integrity of neuroimaging research. Similarly important is the ability to connect and curate data in order to make it meaningful and sharable with other investigators. Collecting data, especially with several different modalities, can be time consuming and expensive. These issues have driven the development of automated collection of neuroimaging and clinical assessment data within COINS (Collaborative Informatics and Neuroimaging Suite). COINS is an end-to-end data management system. It provides a comprehensive platform for data collection, management, secure storage, and flexible data retrieval (Bockholt et al., 2010; Scott et al., …


The Rise Of Large-Scale Imaging Studies In Psychiatry, Jessica Turner Jan 2014

The Rise Of Large-Scale Imaging Studies In Psychiatry, Jessica Turner

Neuroscience Institute Faculty Publications

From the initial arguments over whether 12 to 20 subjects were sufficient for an fMRI study, sample sizes in psychiatric neuroimaging studies have expanded into the tens of thousands. These large-scale imaging studies fall into several categories, each of which has specific advantages and challenges. The different study types can be grouped based on their level of control: meta-analyses, at one extreme of the spectrum, control nothing about the imaging protocol or subject selection criteria in the datasets they include, On the other hand, planned multi-site mega studies pour intense efforts into strictly having the same protocols. However, there are …


Neuroanatomical Domain Of The Foundational Model Of Anatomy Ontology, B Nolan Nichols, Jose Lv Mejino, Landon T. Detwiler, Trond T. Nilsen, Maryann E. Martone, Jessica Turner, Daniel L. Rubin, James F. Brinkley Jan 2014

Neuroanatomical Domain Of The Foundational Model Of Anatomy Ontology, B Nolan Nichols, Jose Lv Mejino, Landon T. Detwiler, Trond T. Nilsen, Maryann E. Martone, Jessica Turner, Daniel L. Rubin, James F. Brinkley

Neuroscience Institute Faculty Publications

Background: The diverse set of human brain structure and function analysis methods represents a difficult challenge for reconciling multiple views of neuroanatomical organization. While different views of organization are expected and valid, no widely adopted approach exists to harmonize different brain labeling protocols and terminologies. Our approach uses the natural organizing framework provided by anatomical structure to correlate terminologies commonly used in neuroimaging. Description: The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) Ontology provides a semantic framework for representing the anatomical entities and relationships that constitute the phenotypic organization of the human body. In this paper we describe recent enhancements to the …