BIDS apps: Improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J ^a   Alfaro Almagro, Fidel ^b   Auer, Tibor ^c   Bellec, Pierre ^d,e   Capotă, Mihai ^f,aa   Chakravarty, M Mallar ^g,h   Churchill, Nathan W ⁱ   Cohen, Alexander Li ^j   Craddock, R Cameron ^k,l   Devenyi, Gabriel A ^g,h   Eklund, Anders ^m   Esteban, Oscar ^a   Flandin, Guillaume ⁿ   Ghosh, Satrajit S ^o,p   Guntupalli, J Swaroop ^q   Jenkinson, Mark ^b   Keshavan, Anisha ^r   Kiar, Gregory ^s,t   Liem, Franziskus ^u   Raamana, Pradeep Reddy ^v,w   Raffelt, David ^x   Steele, Christopher J ^g,h   Quirion, Pierre Olivier ^m   Smith, Robert E ^x   Strother, Stephen C ^v,w   Varoquaux, Gaël ^y   Wang, Yida ^f,aa   Yarkoni, Tal ^z   Poldrack, Russell A ^a   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^g DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^j BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^l CHILD MIND INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁿ WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^o MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^q Dartmouth College   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^t Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^v ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^w UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^x FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^y INRIA SACLAY   (France)

^z UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^aa NONE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; DATA HANDLING;

ANALYSIS METHOD; BRAIN-IMAGING DATA; DATA ANALYSIS-METHODS; EASE-OF-USE; PORTABLE APPLICATIONS; PROCESSING SOLUTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SINGLE USERS; USER INPUT; VERSIONING;

CONTAINERS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN IMAGING DATA STRUCTURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOBILE APPLICATION; NEUROIMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEM; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85016747642     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005209     Document Type: Article

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