title: Terminology development towards harmonizing multiple clinical neuroimaging research repositories.
abstract: Data sharing and mediation across disparate neuroimaging repositories requires extensive effort to ensure that the different domains of data types are referred to by commonly agreed upon terms. Within the SchizConnect project, which enables querying across decentralized databases of neuroimaging, clinical, and cognitive data from various studies of schizophrenia, we developed a model for each data domain, identified common usable terms that could be agreed upon across the repositories, and linked them to standard ontological terms where possible. We had the goal of facilitating both the current user experience in querying and future automated computations and reasoning regarding the data. We found that existing terminologies are incomplete for these purposes, even with the history of neuroimaging data sharing in the field; and we provide a model for efforts focused on querying multiple clinical neuroimaging repositories.
authors.affiliation: Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pasquerello
authors.affiliation: University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Keator
authors.affiliation: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alpert
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Drew
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Landis
authors.forename: Vince D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Calhoun
authors.forename: Steven G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Potkin
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tallis
authors.forename: Jose Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Ambite
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Neuroimaging; assessments; clinical scales; data sharing; mediation