The Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network Data Repository

Neuroimage. 2016 Jan 1;124(Pt B):1074-1079. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.003. Epub 2015 Sep 11.

Abstract

The Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network (FBIRN) developed methods and tools for conducting multi-scanner functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. Method and tool development were based on two major goals: 1) to assess the major sources of variation in fMRI studies conducted across scanners, including instrumentation, acquisition protocols, challenge tasks, and analysis methods, and 2) to provide a distributed network infrastructure and an associated federated database to host and query large, multi-site, fMRI and clinical data sets. In the process of achieving these goals the FBIRN test bed generated several multi-scanner brain imaging data sets to be shared with the wider scientific community via the BIRN Data Repository (BDR). The FBIRN Phase 1 data set consists of a traveling subject study of 5 healthy subjects, each scanned on 10 different 1.5 to 4 T scanners. The FBIRN Phase 2 and Phase 3 data sets consist of subjects with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder along with healthy comparison subjects scanned at multiple sites. In this paper, we provide concise descriptions of FBIRN's multi-scanner brain imaging data sets and details about the BIRN Data Repository instance of the Human Imaging Database (HID) used to publicly share the data.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Biomedical Research
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Female
  • Healthy Volunteers
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Medical Informatics*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neuroimaging
  • Psychotic Disorders / pathology
  • Reference Values
  • Research
  • Schizophrenia / pathology
  • Young Adult