Workshop

Neuroimaging Datasharing and Data Access

Saturday, June 25, 2011, 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
Room 204AB, Centre des Congrès, Québec City

Organized by Jean-Baptiste Poline, David Kennedy, Russell Poldrack and INCF.

Neuroimaging is increasingly relying on tools to store, manage, and share data and meta data. A number of open databasing tools have been developed and there are several new initiatives to promote neuroimaging datasharing. Simple and global access to neuroimaging data and metadata will profoundly impact the field.

This workshop will allow members of the neuroimaging community to meet developers of neuroimaging dabasing tools. We propose to review the motivation for sharing neuroimaging (raw or processed) data, how this can be done today, and discuss what would the community need in the future to help exchange and share data, and what would be the impact on the science performed in the field.

During the meeting, we will review all the necessary technical, community and legal or ethical aspects of datasharing, including brief reviews of some current databasing or processing tools, discussions on provenance and ontologies, etc. We hope that the meeting will help clarify where the efforts should go to make neuroimaging datasharing easier and change or improve our daily research.

This workshop will gather renowned speakers on neuroimaging databasing systems and their relation to raw or processed data with specific interest in making data sharing easier. We plan to leave enough time to allow discussions on the various aspects of data sharing (technical, legal, etc). The end of the day will open to new ways of using the web resources and potentially thinking of our research or clinical activity.

Agenda

8:00 Coffee

8:30 Welcome and Introduction (Jean-Baptiste Poline, Neurospin/CEA, France)

8:40 INCF and Neuroinformatics Infrastructure for Datasharing (Sean Hill, INCF)

9:00 Why Share Data? (Russell Poldrack, University of Texas at Austin)

9:20 Review of Some Neuroimaging Databasing Systems

Data Sharing with XNAT (Daniel Marcus, Neuroinformatics Research Group, Washington University in St. Louis)

Visualizing and Mining Neuroanatomical Relatedness: Examples Drawn from the LONI Integrated Data Archive (Jack Van Horn, UCLA)

FBIRN Neuro-informatics Updates (HID, XCEDE) and BIRN HID-XNAT Data Mediation (David Keator, UC Irvine)

10:45 Break

11:00 Roundtable. I have data: Where do I put it? How do I choose among database options? (Poldrack, Van Horn, Marcus, Keator)

11:30 Ontologies and Neuroimaging Datasharing (Jessica Turner, Mind Research Network)

12:00 Who Are These IRB People and Why Don't They Leave Me Alone? (Al Grudzinskas, University of Massachusetts Medical Center)

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Databasing and Data processing: Provenance / How to interact with input-output / How do I share the processing results?

SPM (Guillaume Flandin, University College London)

FSL (Eugene Duff, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain)

Freesurfer (Karl Helmer, Massachusetts General Hospital)

NIPype and Other Processing Tools (Satra Ghosh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:15 Roundtable on Provenance. How to share results in a biologically meaningful context? (Rivière, Duff, Flandin, Helmer, Ghosh, Klein)

14:45 Neuroimage Data - The View from NIMH (Greg Farber, NIMH/NIH)

15:00 Sharing of NIH-funded Neuroimage Data: Potential Policy and Implementation (Jim Bjork, NIDA/NIH)

15:15 Data Sharing Opportunities and Challenges for the Human Connectome Project (David Van Essen, Washington University in St. Louis)

15:45 Break

16:00 The Neuroscience Information Framework (Jeffrey Grethe, University of California, San Diego)

16:30 Navigating Oceans of Data (David Maier, Portland State University)

17:00 Roundtable on Datasharing (Van Essen, Grethe, Maier, Turner, Valdes Sosa) and Wrap-Up (David Kennedy, University of Massachusetts Medical School)

17:30 Social