title: Sharing brain mapping statistical results with the neuroimaging data model.
abstract: Only a tiny fraction of the data and metadata produced by an fMRI study is finally conveyed to the community. This lack of transparency not only hinders the reproducibility of neuroimaging results but also impairs future meta-analyses. In this work we introduce NIDM-Results, a format specification providing a machine-readable description of neuroimaging statistical results along with key image data summarising the experiment. NIDM-Results provides a unified representation of mass univariate analyses including a level of detail consistent with available best practices. This standardized representation allows authors to relay methods and results in a platform-independent regularized format that is not tied to a particular neuroimaging software package. Tools are available to export NIDM-Result graphs and associated files from the widely used SPM and FSL software packages, and the NeuroVault repository can import NIDM-Results archives. The specification is publically available at: http://nidm.nidash.org/specs/nidm-results.html.
authors.affiliation: WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
authors.forename: Camille
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6290-553X
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maumet
authors.affiliation: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK.
authors.forename: Tibor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Auer
authors.affiliation: WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bowring
authors.affiliation: Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Ludmer Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4.
authors.forename: Samir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Flandin
authors.affiliation: McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Satrajit
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5312-6729
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.affiliation: McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Ludmer Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4.|Université de Lyon, CREATIS; CNRS UMR5220; Inserm U1044; INSA-Lyon; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne 69100, France.
authors.forename: Tristan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Glatard
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Krzysztof J
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3321-7583
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Gorgolewski
authors.affiliation: Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Radiology, Boston, Massachusetts 02129, USA.
authors.forename: Karl G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Helmer
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jenkinson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Computer Science, Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Keator
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: B Nolan
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1099-3328
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Nichols
authors.affiliation: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Poline
authors.affiliation: Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4387-3819
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sochat
authors.affiliation: Psychology and Neuroscience, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.|Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4516-5103
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Nichols
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016014:Linear Models; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results