[Neuroimaging] Planning for data formats - upcoming journal club

Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos dimitri.papadopoulos at cea.fr
Tue Nov 9 11:51:01 EST 2021


Hi,

I do not know how much the community has embraced the ISMRM Raw Data 
Format (ISMRMRD). It is based on HDF5 so it might be useful to hear from 
them and have a look at their format:

https://ismrmrd.github.io

Best,
Dimitri Papadopoulos

Le 09/11/2021 à 15:16, JB Poline a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Another thing that could be useful would be to have a look at the NWB 
> folks experience - they have gone through quite a few pain points - we 
> ask one of the developer to give a little talk / summary of their experience
> 
> I'd be interested as well
> Cheers
> JB
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM Anderson M. Winkler 
> <andersonwinkler at gmail.com <mailto:andersonwinkler at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Matthew, hi all,
> 
>     I put some thinking on this a few years ago and concluded that HDF5
>     would be ideal. The blog post you link was already up and I didn't
>     feel deterred by it, despite the interesting insights.
> 
>     At the time I put online a document for discussion
>     (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5DX4YPS680mc3Rb9msLetrjlPcDhaw835Um-jJb-Dw/edit?usp=sharing
>     <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5DX4YPS680mc3Rb9msLetrjlPcDhaw835Um-jJb-Dw/edit?usp=sharing>)
>     and as a starting point, made a mapping to how we'd store NIFTI as
>     HDF5
>     (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hL27J2wNqHj27aX3VrCY8ajHyIBYtgYVmNmSoZZC8aA/edit?usp=sharing
>     <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hL27J2wNqHj27aX3VrCY8ajHyIBYtgYVmNmSoZZC8aA/edit?usp=sharing>).
> 
>     At the end, I had to focus on other things, including career (and
>     country) moves, and couldn't spend time and effort on this, despite
>     the fact that the needs from then continue very much the same as
>     today (if not perhaps even more needed now than then...).
> 
>     I'd be happy to participate in any effort you or others may lead
>     towards this.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Anderson
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 8:24 AM KEVEEN RODRIGUEZ ZAPATA
>     <keveen.rodriguez at udea.edu.co <mailto:keveen.rodriguez at udea.edu.co>>
>     wrote:
> 
>         Hello, thanks for the initiative Matthew, I would like to be
>         part of the schedule.
> 
>         On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 6:32 AM Matthew Brett
>         <matthew.brett at gmail.com <mailto:matthew.brett at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>             Hi,
> 
>             Summary:  we are planning to do a journal club to discuss new
>             neuroimaging data formats.  Please let me (Matthew) know if
>             you want
>             to be included in the scheduling for the journal club.  Of
>             course,
>             once we've got a time, anyone can join the journal club Zoom.
> 
>             Detail:
> 
>             As part of the Chan-Zuckerberg grant work, we are thinking
>             about new
>             formats for using and sharing neuroimaging data.
> 
>             As you can see in the grant documents:
> 
>             https://github.com/matthew-brett/czi-nibabel
>             <https://github.com/matthew-brett/czi-nibabel>
> 
>             we've been thinking about HDF5, but further research (e.g.
>             [1]) has
>             given us some pause for reflection.  Meanwhile, the astronomy
>             community has done some serious thinking about this, and
>             written this
>             up in a paper proposing a new astronomy format:
> 
>             Greenfield, M. Droettboom, E. Bray,
>             ASDF: A new data format for astronomy,
>             Astronomy and Computing,
>             Volume 12,
>             2015,
>             Pages 240-251,
>             ISSN 2213-1337,
>             https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2015.06.004
>             <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2015.06.004>.
>             (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133715000645
>             <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133715000645>)
> 
>             Both the discussion and the format seem like a very good
>             starting
>             point for our own thinking about data formats, so we'd like
>             to have a
>             journal club to discuss it.
> 
>             I (Matthew) am going to organize this via Calendly, and I've
>             made a
>             Caldendly account for Nipy-related stuff, but, if you want
>             to have a
>             say in when we do the journal club, please let me know so I
>             can add
>             you to that account.  I'll publish the Calendly link in a
>             day or so.
> 
>             Cheers,
> 
>             Matthew
> 
>             [1] https://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/
>             <https://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/>
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