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Fully transparent study methodology descriptions

Remi Gau

Twitter: @RemiGau

eCOBIDAS

INCF assembly

12th September 2022

INCF eCOBIDAS working group

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Origin story

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Origin story

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Origin story

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COBIDAS

COmmittee on Best practice In Data Analysis & Sharing

Organization for Human Brain Mapping

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COBIDAS

Organization for Human Brain Mapping

COmmittee on Best practice In Data Analysis & Sharing

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  1. Experimental Design
  2. Acquisition​
  3. Preprocessing​
  4. Statistical Modeling & Inference ​
  5. Results​
  6. Data Sharing ​
  7. Reproducibility ​

COBIDAS report

40 pages long “checklist”

Mixing all the use-cases...

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eCOBIDAS app

WEB

INTERFACE

MACHINE

FRIENDLY

FORMAT

COBIDAS

TABLE

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eCOBIDAS app

REPROSCHEMA-UI

REPROSCHEMA

COBIDAS

TABLE

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  • Cognitive and clinical questionnaires
  • Harmonize data by design
  • Repronim webinar

Reproschema

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  • Unique and persistent identifiers
  • Versioning
  • Implementation agnostic
  • Uses a linked data graph (validated using SHACL)
  • Meant to work as a library ReproSchema Library

Reproschema

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  • Unique and persistent identifiers
  • Versioning
  • Implementation agnostic
  • Uses a linked data graph (validated using SHACL)
  • Meant to work as a library ReproSchema Library

Reproschema

eCOBIDAS

Shared

reusable

items

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User interface

(vue.js)

Reproschema

JSON-LD

Reproschema

Spreadsheet

Standardized

ouput

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eCOBIDAS - neurovault

Neurovault collection metadata

  • 100 items
    • Subset of COBIDAS MRI
    • Reporting those → better than most papers

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eCOBIDAS - neurovault

Neurovault collection metadata

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eCOBIDAS - eyetracker

  • Long term goal
    • Set of tools to facilitate the creation of similar checklists

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eCOBIDAS - data curation

json

BIDS

  • Long term goal
    • Facilitate data curation

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Future development

  • COBIDAS 2.0
    • Update of COBIDAS MRI coming in 2023
    • New and more diverse team
    • More modular
      • eg. refactor COBIDAS EEG/MRI
    • Checklist-oriented development

Peter

Bandettini

Shella

Keilholz

Janine

Bijsterbosch

Catie

Chang

Anqi

Qiu

Thomas

Yeo

Bertrand

Thirion

Jean-Baptiste

Poline

Chao Gan

Yan

Michael

Hanke

Thomas

Nichols

Cyril

Pernet

Henk

Mutsaerts

Samir

Das

Tristan

Glatard

T.J.H.

White

Remi

Gau

Jack

Van Horn

Russell

Poldrack

Athina

Tzovara

Ting

Xu

Alan

Evans

Dara

Cannon

Niko

Kriegeskorte

Simon

Eickhoff

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Future development

  • Reproschema
    • Improve documentation
    • Improve tools to create new schemas

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jsonld

Method section

templates

Future development

  • Long term goal
    • Automated method section generation
    • Import from existing standards

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  • Difficulty: Easy
    • Improve response options (eg. add RRIDs)
  • Difficulty: Medium
    • Test one the apps to evaluate a paper
  • Difficulty: Hard
    • Help with UI development

How to help?

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Thank you!

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eCOBIDAS: aims

  • Provide human / machine readable descriptions of the data collection and analysis pipelines
  • Facilitate pre-registration and registered reports
  • Help make peer-review more systematic
  • Facilitate systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses
  • Facilitate data sharing

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eCOBIDAS: full app 🐢

App

(("fMRI"[Title/Abstract] OR "functional MRI"[Title/Abstract] OR "functional magnetic resonance imaging"[Title/Abstract])

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AND (("2017/01/01"[Date - Publication] : "3000"[Date - Publication]))

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AND ((free full text[Filter]))

AND ((Neuron[Journal]))

AND ((english[Language])