BIRN – Biomedical Informatics Research Network

FIRE (coming in 2010) is an integrated suite of tools to put your data on a gridFTP set of servers, link it to a database which is automatically federated, to be able to retrieve it from multiple sites, with the data wrapped in XCEDE (XML) wrappers.

The Upload scripts work in concert with the GridFTP servers, XCEDE, and the standardized data hierarchies to put data onto the GridFTP servers and link it to the appropriate database.

The FBIRN agar phantom is used regularly for Quality Assurance, to assess scanner stability.

The BIRN_ID generator can be used to assign a unique ID to subjects in any type of experiment.

The FBIRN multi-site dataset of subjects with schizophrenia and controls includes functional MRI images, behavioral data, demographic, and clinical assessments on 253 subjects from around the US.

This dataset includes five healthy subjects imaged twice at each of ten FBIRN MRI scanners on successive days.

This dataset includes ten healthy subjects scanned 3 times with 3 conditions: eyes open, eyes closed, and fixating in addition to two anatomical scans (T1 and T2).

This dataset includes seventeen healthy subjects with four resting state fixation scans plus one T1 scan and one T2 scan.

Provides an extensive metadata hierarchy for describing and documenting research and clinical studies.

Developed to address the problems associated with managing the increasingly large and diverse datasets collected throughout clinical and imaging communities.

Used to verify and measure the scanner stability during a typical fMRI scanning sequence during routine quality assurance scans.

FIPS is a package for the comprehensive management of large-scale multi-site fMRI projects, including data storage, retrieval, calibration, analysis, multi-modal integration, and quality control.

Employed during the FBIRN traveling subjects’ study of 2003, this is a Function-BIRN led study to standardize and calibrate imaging data for multi-site MRI studies by examining the brains of five subjects at nine different scanning sites across America.

These are E-prime programs for presenting stimuli to, collecting responses, and analyzing behavior from subjects.

Helps incorporate online clinical assessment entry forms.

A suite of tools designed to read, write and manipulate XML descriptors using the BXH or XCEDE schemas. This tool is REQUIRED for many other FBIRN tools.