[BIC-announce] NeuroHub Seminar today at 2pm

[JB Poline]

Quick reminder: this should be a good talk if you are interested in how to
work with metadata, a growing area of research around data and pipeline
sharing / publishing

Cheers

JB


Speaker: Dr. David Keator, UCI Neuroscience Imaging Center (Host: Dr.
Jean-Baptiste Poline)

Location: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/85093005242
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*Free event: *Open to faculty, staff and students from McGill University,
and all members of the Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives community

*Summary*

Efficient use of existing data relies on (meta)data being FAIR: Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. A critical barrier to FAIR data is
that metadata descriptions vary widely in degree of detail and are
inconsistent in terminologies used, making neuroscience data often not
reusable without significant interactions with the original authors. This
lack of consistent metadata makes comparisons and integration of data
across studies and sites difficult. To facilitate search across datasets we
developed the Neuroimaging Data model (NIDM), built using linked-data
techniques to unambiguously describe experimental data, workflows, and
results. In this talk I will introduce linked-data techniques and how
they’re being used in neuroscience to support un-ambiguous descriptions of
data, workflows, and to facilitate query and data integration across
unrelated studies.

*Speaker Bio*

Dr. Keator has been an active researcher in the fields of neuroimaging and
neuroinformatics applied to psychiatric and neurological disorders for over
twenty years. His research has been focused in three principle domains: (1)
Identifying brain-based biomarkers of dementia in Down Syndrome, traumatic
brain injury (TBI), Schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease; (2) The
development of advanced machine learning models for problems in
neuroimaging and medicine; (3) Developing biomedical informatics tools and
techniques for the field of neuroimaging and applying them to problems in
medicine. In each of these domains he has made significant research
contributions, many of which have gained international exposure. Since
2011, Dr. Keator has chaired the Neuroimaging Data Model (NIDM) working
group consisting of representatives form 12 institutions across Europe and
the United States and co-developed the metadata standard. He is an active
member of the International NeuroInformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF)
Neuroimaging Task Force, served on the Neuroimaging Technology Initiative’s
data format working group responsible for the development of the NIfTI-1
standard, and the informatics director for the UCI Conte Center, developing
informatics tools to support translational research. Further, Dr. Keator is
the technical and operations director of the UCI Neuroscience Imaging
Center, responsible for PET and MRI research performed at the center,
quality control, reconstruction, and statistical analysis.
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