TY - JOUR
T1 - The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments
AU - Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J.
AU - Auer, Tibor
AU - Calhoun, Vince D.
AU - Craddock, R. Cameron
AU - Das, Samir
AU - Duff, Eugene P.
AU - Flandin, Guillaume
AU - Ghosh, Satrajit S.
AU - Glatard, Tristan
AU - Halchenko, Yaroslav O.
AU - Handwerker, Daniel A.
AU - Hanke, Michael
AU - Keator, David
AU - Li, Xiangrui
AU - Michael, Zachary
AU - Maumet, Camille
AU - Nichols, B. Nolan
AU - Nichols, Thomas E.
AU - Pellman, John
AU - Poline, Jean Baptiste
AU - Rokem, Ariel
AU - Schaefer, Gunnar
AU - Sochat, Vanessa
AU - Triplett, William
AU - Turner, Jessica A.
AU - Varoquaux, Gaël
AU - Poldrack, Russell A.
PY - 2016/6/21
Y1 - 2016/6/21
N2 - The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques has defined modern neuroimaging. Since its inception, tens of thousands of studies using techniques such as functional MRI and diffusion weighted imaging have allowed for the non-invasive study of the brain. Despite the fact that MRI is routinely used to obtain data for neuroscience research, there has been no widely adopted standard for organizing and describing the data collected in an imaging experiment. This renders sharing and reusing data (within or between labs) difficult if not impossible and unnecessarily complicates the application of automatic pipelines and quality assurance protocols. To solve this problem, we have developed the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), a standard for organizing and describing MRI datasets. The BIDS standard uses file formats compatible with existing software, unifies the majority of practices already common in the field, and captures the metadata necessary for most common data processing operations.
AB - The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques has defined modern neuroimaging. Since its inception, tens of thousands of studies using techniques such as functional MRI and diffusion weighted imaging have allowed for the non-invasive study of the brain. Despite the fact that MRI is routinely used to obtain data for neuroscience research, there has been no widely adopted standard for organizing and describing the data collected in an imaging experiment. This renders sharing and reusing data (within or between labs) difficult if not impossible and unnecessarily complicates the application of automatic pipelines and quality assurance protocols. To solve this problem, we have developed the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), a standard for organizing and describing MRI datasets. The BIDS standard uses file formats compatible with existing software, unifies the majority of practices already common in the field, and captures the metadata necessary for most common data processing operations.
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U2 - 10.1038/sdata.2016.44
DO - 10.1038/sdata.2016.44
M3 - Article
C2 - 27326542
AN - SCOPUS:84975789666
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 3
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
M1 - 160044
ER -