TY - JOUR
T1 - XNAT Central
T2 - Open sourcing imaging research data
AU - Herrick, Rick
AU - Horton, William
AU - Olsen, Timothy
AU - McKay, Michael
AU - Archie, Kevin A.
AU - Marcus, Daniel S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by NIH grants 5 R01 EB009352 , U24 RR026057 , U54 EB005149 , and U24 RR025736 . We wish to thank all contributors to XNAT Central, especially the NUSDAST and OASIS projects.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - XNAT Central is a publicly accessible medical imaging data repository based on the XNAT open-source imaging informatics platform. It hosts a wide variety of research imaging data sets. The primary motivation for creating XNAT Central was to provide a central repository to host and provide access to a wide variety of neuroimaging data. In this capacity, XNAT Central hosts a number of data sets from research labs and investigative efforts from around the world, including the OASIS Brains imaging studies, the NUSDAST study of schizophrenia, and more. Over time, XNAT Central has expanded to include imaging data from many different fields of research, including oncology, orthopedics, cardiology, and animal studies, but continues to emphasize neuroimaging data. Through the use of XNAT's DICOM metadata extraction capabilities, XNAT Central provides a searchable repository of imaging data that can be referenced by groups, labs, or individuals working in many different areas of research. The future development of XNAT Central will be geared towards greater ease of use as a reference library of heterogeneous neuroimaging data and associated synthetic data. It will also become a tool for making data available supporting published research and academic articles.
AB - XNAT Central is a publicly accessible medical imaging data repository based on the XNAT open-source imaging informatics platform. It hosts a wide variety of research imaging data sets. The primary motivation for creating XNAT Central was to provide a central repository to host and provide access to a wide variety of neuroimaging data. In this capacity, XNAT Central hosts a number of data sets from research labs and investigative efforts from around the world, including the OASIS Brains imaging studies, the NUSDAST study of schizophrenia, and more. Over time, XNAT Central has expanded to include imaging data from many different fields of research, including oncology, orthopedics, cardiology, and animal studies, but continues to emphasize neuroimaging data. Through the use of XNAT's DICOM metadata extraction capabilities, XNAT Central provides a searchable repository of imaging data that can be referenced by groups, labs, or individuals working in many different areas of research. The future development of XNAT Central will be geared towards greater ease of use as a reference library of heterogeneous neuroimaging data and associated synthetic data. It will also become a tool for making data available supporting published research and academic articles.
KW - Data sharing
KW - Neuroinformatics databases
KW - Open access
KW - Open source
KW - XNAT
KW - XNAT Central
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949314660&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.076
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.076
M3 - Article
C2 - 26143202
AN - SCOPUS:84949314660
VL - 124
SP - 1093
EP - 1096
JO - NeuroImage
JF - NeuroImage
SN - 1053-8119
ER -