Abstract

Progress in our understanding of brain disorders increasingly relies on costly collection of large standardized brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data sets. Moreover, clinical interpretations of brain scans benefit from compare and contrast analyses of scans from patients with similar, and sometimes rare, demographic, diagnostic, and treatment status. A solution to both needs is to acquire standardized, research-ready clinical brain scans and to build the information technology infrastructure to share such scans, along with other pertinent information, across hospitals. The resulting research-ready brain imaging resource would provide a wealth of accessible standardized brain imaging data relevant to patient care and research. This paper describes a pilot project that develops such a brain resource, including the rationale, the short imaging protocol, the access to patient data, and the system architecture. This …

Date

November 12, 2011

Authors

Theo GM Van Erp, Ann L Chervenak, Carl Kesselman, Mike D'Arcy, Janet Sobell, David Keator, Lisa Dahm, Jim Murry, Meng Law, Anton Hasso, Joseph Ames, Fabio Macciardi, Steven G Potkin

Conference

2011 IEEE International conference on bioinformatics and biomedicine workshops (BIBMW)

Pages

1026-1028

Publisher

IEEE