The Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network Data Repository

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 124; no. Pt B; pp. 1074 - 1079
• Main Authors: Keator, David B., van Erp, Theo G.M., Turner, Jessica A., Glover, Gary H., Mueller, Bryon A., Liu, Thomas T., Voyvodic, James T., Rasmussen, Jerod, Calhoun, Vince D., Lee, Hyo Jong, Toga, Arthur W., McEwen, Sarah, Ford, Judith M., Mathalon, Daniel H., Diaz, Michele, O'Leary, Daniel S., Jeremy Bockholt, H., Gadde, Syam, Preda, Adrian, Wible, Cynthia G., Stern, Hal S., Belger, Aysenil, McCarthy, Gregory, Ozyurt, Burak, Potkin, Steven G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.01.2016; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Access control; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Research; Brain mapping; Data collection; Databases, Factual; Datasets; Female; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Informatics; Information Dissemination; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Medical Informatics; Mental disorders; Middle Aged; Neuroimaging; Physiology; Psychotic Disorders - pathology; Public access; Reference Values; Scanners; Schizoaffective disorder; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - pathology; Young Adult
• ISSN: 1053-8119; 1095-9572; 1095-9572
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.003

The Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network (FBIRN) developed methods and tools for conducting multi-scanner functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. Method and tool development were based on two major goals: 1) to assess the major sources of variation in fMRI studies conducted across scanners, including instrumentation, acquisition protocols, challenge tasks, and analysis methods, and 2) to provide a distributed network infrastructure and an associated federated database to host and query large, multi-site, fMRI and clinical data sets. In the process of achieving these goals the FBIRN test bed generated several multi-scanner brain imaging data sets to be shared with the wider scientific community via the BIRN Data Repository (BDR). The FBIRN Phase 1 data set consists of a traveling subject study of 5 healthy subjects, each scanned on 10 different 1.5 to 4T scanners. The FBIRN Phase 2 and Phase 3 data sets consist of subjects with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder along with healthy comparison subjects scanned at multiple sites. In this paper, we provide concise descriptions of FBIRN's multi-scanner brain imaging data sets and details about the BIRN Data Repository instance of the Human Imaging Database (HID) used to publicly share the data. •This manuscript presents Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network data.•FBIRN data are shared via the BIRN Data Repository and SchizConnect.•FBIRN shares data from individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls.•FBIRN shares structural and functional brain imaging, clinical, and cognitive data.