Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)

A Unified Standard of Data Organization

James Kent

Michelle Voss

Objectives

• Understand why BIDS is useful
• Know what BIDS is (and is not)
• Name several potential changes we can make to easily adopt BIDS at the University of Iowa.

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Who is using BIDS?

as of 03/02/2018

• 290 members on the bids google discussion group
• 600 users on OpenFMRI (Now OpenNeuro)
• 85 responses to a tweet asking who is organizing their data according to BIDS
• Lab/Name Dropping
  • Tor Wager, Ted Satterthwaite, Jeanette Mumford, Desposito Lab, David Warren, Hans Johnson, Michelle Voss, and many more

Why is BIDS Useful?

• Helps keep track of data within a lab
• Helps with collaboration between labs
• Helps with data sharing
  • You may also get cool badges if you publish with certain journals
• Other labs across America and around the world are using BIDS.

What Does BIDS Look Like?

BIDS Specification

BIDS is NOT

• Software
• Restrictive
• Panacea

• BIDS-Apps
• AFNI BIDS-tools
• BIDS2ISATab
• BIDSto3col
• BIDS2NDA
• bidskit
• Dcm2Bids
• DCM2NIIx
• HeuDiConv
• ReproIn (HeuDiConv-based turnkey solution)

BIDS Associated Software

• bids2xar 
• XNAT2BIDS
• Automatic Analysis 
• Brainstorm 
• C-PAC 
• FMRIPREP 
• OpenNeuro 
• PyBIDS 
• MRIQC
• QAP

BIDS at the University of Iowa

• Create a standard BIDS scan acquisition form
• Create a standard BIDS subject and session naming on XNAT
• Automatic Conversion to BIDS NIfTI format
• Educate/Share knowledge of BIDS

Questions?