Mining the Mind Research Network: A novel framework for exploring large scale, heterogeneous translational neuroscience research data sources

Henry J. Bockholt, Mark Scully, William Courtney, Srinivas Rachakonda, Adam Scott, Arvind Caprihan, Jill Fries, Ravi Kalyanam, Judith M. Segall, Raul de la Garza, Susan Lane, Vince D. Calhoun

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Abstract

A neuroinformatics (NI) system is critical to brain imaging research in order to shorten the time between study conception and results. Such a NI system is required to scale well when large numbers of subjects are studied. Further, when multiple sites participate in research projects organizational issues become increasingly diffi cult. Optimized NI applications mitigate these problems. Additionally, NI software enables coordination across multiple studies, leveraging advantages potentially leading to exponential research discoveries. The web-based, Mind Research Network (MRN), database system has been designed and improved through our experience with 200 research studies and 250 researchers from seven different institutions. The MRN tools permit the collection, management, reporting and effi cient use of large scale, heterogeneous data sources, e.g., multiple institutions, multiple principal investigators, multiple research programs and studies, and multimodal acquisitions. We have collected and analyzed data sets on thousands of research participants and have set up a framework to automatically analyze the data, thereby making effi cient, practical data mining of this vast resource possible. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for capturing and analyzing heterogeneous neuroscience research data sources that has been fully optimized for end-users to perform novel data mining.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number36
JournalFrontiers in Neuroinformatics
Volume3
Issue numberAPR
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 21 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Data mining
  • Magnetic resonance imaging
  • Mind clinical imaging consortium
  • XCEDE
  • XML

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Neuroscience (miscellaneous)
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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