Dear FSL community,
Jack has asked me to pass this on, we think it should be of great
interest to FSL users as much as SPM ones (my apologies to those
people who subscribe to both lists!)
Best,
Ged.
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From: John D. Van Horn <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 25-Jul-2006 16:11
Subject: [SPM] Neuroimaging Validation Data Set Website
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Dear SPM User Community,
As many of you will recognize, there has been for some time a need for a
web resource for simulated, benchmark, and published neuroimaging data sets
with relevant brain atlases. This topic was raised by recent NIH Human Brain
Project and LINC meeting sub-committees on neuroimaging. With this in mind,
I would appreciate your comments on the wiki web site we have created
http://www.fmridc.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
With this resource we hope to feature complete functional and structural
neuroimaging datasets that can serve as reference or validation datasets for
advance computational, statistical, and visualization methods development.
Here we have listed a number of existing online resources or specific
datasets that may be particularly useful to computer scientists,
mathematicians, or others interested in analytic neuroimage data processing.
Note that while the links do not yet immediately facilitate direct download
of data, they at least point to where data may be downloaded or requested.
Members of Alan Evan's team in Montreal, specifically Andrew Janke, have
already made some great additions. You will also note several particularly
useful cognitive fMRI studies from the fMRI Data Center archive. These
studies would be of particular interest to those of you pushing the edge of
the SPM envelope - developing novel Bayesian approaches, multivariate
techniques, etc and wishing to assess their outcomes against published data
and results. Data from the NCRR BIRN "traveling phantom" initiative is also
linked that serve as other valuable benchmark datasets. Several useful brain
atlases are also listed.
The fMRIDC is delighted to host and maintain this resource. We hope that
this will serve as the basis for the NIH committee's recommendations and is
something the community can build on. It is a wiki, open to all, so please
feel free to add your own benchmark, atlas, or other reference datasets.
Ideally, the site should point to those online sources of functional and
structural neuroimaging data that are known to be robust, well documented,
used in peer-reviewed publication, and represent those "standards" against
which new methodologies might be tested. Use of accepted image file formats
useful to SPM, AFNI, and other software environments is preferred (e.g.
Analyze or NIFTI). Do use best judgment though that your datasets are truly
ready for prime time - we wish to highlight those datasets that can truly be
called "references" which can maximize the effectiveness of tool development
for extracting useful information on brain form and function.
We hope you find this resource useful for your work. Your contributions,
thoughts, and comments are much appreciated.
Respectfully yours,
Jack Van Horn
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