title: The MNI data-sharing and processing ecosystem.
abstract: Neuroimaging has been facing a data deluge characterized by the exponential growth of both raw and processed data. As a result, mining the massive quantities of digital data collected in these studies offers unprecedented opportunities and has become paramount for today's research. As the neuroimaging community enters the world of "Big Data", there has been a concerted push for enhanced sharing initiatives, whether within a multisite study, across studies, or federated and shared publicly. This article will focus on the database and processing ecosystem developed at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) to support multicenter data acquisition both nationally and internationally, create database repositories, facilitate data-sharing initiatives, and leverage existing software toolkits for large-scale data processing.
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: samir.das@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Samir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Université de Lyon, CREATIS ; CNRS UMR5220 ; Inserm U1044 ; INSA-Lyon ; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France.
authors.forename: Tristan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Glatard
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Leigh C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: MacIntyre
authors.affiliation: Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Cecile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Madjar
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Marc-Etienne
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Rousseau
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rioux
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Dave
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: MacFarlane
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Zia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mohades
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Rathi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gnanasekaran
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Makowski
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Penelope
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kostopoulos
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Adalat
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Najmeh
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khalili-Mahani
authors.affiliation: McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC), Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Guiomar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Niso
authors.affiliation: McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC), Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Jeremy T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Alan C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D016208:Databases, Factual; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D059906:Neuroimaging; D011786:Quality Control; D012984:Software