title: MilxXplore: a web-based system to explore large imaging datasets.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  As large-scale medical imaging studies are becoming more common, there is an increasing reliance on automated software to extract quantitative information from these images. As the size of the cohorts keeps increasing with large studies, there is a also a need for tools that allow results from automated image processing and analysis to be presented in a way that enables fast and efficient quality checking, tagging and reporting on cases in which automatic processing failed or was problematic.
  
  
  METHODS
  MilxXplore is an open source visualization platform, which provides an interface to navigate and explore imaging data in a web browser, giving the end user the opportunity to perform quality control and reporting in a user friendly, collaborative and efficient way.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Compared to existing software solutions that often provide an overview of the results at the subject's level, MilxXplore pools the results of individual subjects and time points together, allowing easy and efficient navigation and browsing through the different acquisitions of a subject over time, and comparing the results against the rest of the population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MilxXplore is fast, flexible and allows remote quality checks of processed imaging data, facilitating data sharing and collaboration across multiple locations, and can be easily integrated into a cloud computing pipeline. With the growing trend of open data and open science, such a tool will become increasingly important to share and publish results of imaging analysis.
authors.affiliation: CSIRO Preventative Health National Research Flagship ICTC, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bourgeat
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dore
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Villemagne
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Rowe
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Salvado
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fripp
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software
keywords: Image processing; Reporting