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Shanoir
SHAring NeurOImaging Resources
Keywords: Neuroimaging - Medical imaging - PACS - Nifti - Data Sharing - DICOM - Health - Shanoir - Webservices - Data base - Biology - Web Application
Functional Description: SHAring NeurOImaging Resources (Shanoir, Previously InriaNeuroTk) is an open source software platform designed to share, archive, search and visualize neuroimaging data.
It provides a user-friendly secure web access and offers an intuitive workflow to facilitate the collecting and retrieving of neuroimaging data from multiple sources and a wizzard to make the completion of metadata easy. Shanoir comes along many features such as anonymization of data, support for multi-centric clinical studies on subjects or group of subjects.
Shanoir offers an ontology-based data organization (OntoNeuroLOG). Among other things, this facilitates the reuse of data and metadata, the integration of processed data and provides traceability through an evolutionary approach. Shanoir allows researchers, clinicians, PhD students and engineers to undertake quality research projects with an emphasis on remote collaboration. As a secured J2EE web application, it therefore allows safely storing and archiving, with no more requirements than a computer with an internet connection!
Furthermore, Shanoir is not only a web application: it is also a complete neuroinformatics platform in which you can easily integrate your existing processing tools or develop your own ones (see ShanoirTk).
The clinical scores resulting from instrument-based assessments (e.g. neuropsychological tests) can also be entered and easily retrieved and exported in different formats (Excel, CSV, Xml). Scores and image acquisitions are bound together which makes relationship analysis possible. The instrument database is scalable and new measures can be added in order to meet specific project needs, by use of intuitive graphical interfaces.
Using cross-data navigation and advanced search criteria, the users can quickly point to a subset of data of data to be downloaded. Client side applications have as well been developed to illustrate how to locally access and exploit data through the available web services. With regard to security, the system requires authentication and user rights are tunable for each hosted study. The person responsible for the study can define which users are allowed to see, download or import data.
Shanoir serves neuroimaging researchers in organizing efficiently their studies, while cooperating with other laboratories. By managing patient privacy, Shanoir allows the exploitation of clinical data in a research context. It is finally a handy solution to publish and share data with a broader community.