Functional requirements for a central research imaging data repository.
The current situation at many university medical centers regarding the management of biomedical research imaging data leaves much to be desired. In contrast to the recommendations of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Council of Sciences and Humanities regarding the professional management of research data, there are commonly many individual data pools for research data in each institute and the management remains the responsibility of the researcher. A possible solution for this situation would be to install local central repositories for biomedical research imaging data. In this paper, we developed a scenario based on abstracted use-cases for institutional research undertakings as well as collaborative biomedical research projects and analyzed the functional requirements that a local repository would have to fulfill. We determined eight generic categories of functional requirements, which can be viewed as a basic guideline for the minimum functionality of a central repository for biomedical research imaging data.
Department of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center, Goettingen, Germany.
Thomas
T
Franke
Romanus
R
Gruetz
Frank
F
Dickmann
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D003219:Confidentiality; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005858:Germany; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D014584:User-Computer Interface