Glossary
BIDS – Brain imaging data structure; [Data structure, not a format]; A standard for organizing, annotating, and describing data collected during neuroimaging experiments. It provides the guidelines of how to organize and name the data. All our XNAT piplelines are BIDS.
DICOM – Digital imaging and communications in medicine; [Format]; Used for storing and transmitting medical images enabling the integration of medical imaging devices. Includes image data and image metadata.
Docker - a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels.
jupyter - The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.
NIFTI – Neuroimaging informatics technology initiative; [Format]; An open file format commonly used to store brain imaging data obtained using magnetic resonance imaging methods.
NiPype – A library that allows to access different software package (FSL, SPM,…) scripts uniformly with Python.
PACS – Picture archiving and communication system; Provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities. Uses DICOM format for image storage and transfer.
XNAT – Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit;