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The BIRN database will be populated with large numbers of medical image volumes which researchers will wish to access and run various processing tools on them in order to obtain derived data. This derived data, such as volumes of various brain structures, cortical thickness etc., will then be placed back into the database, linked to the original volume from which it was produced. If a researcher would like to recreate the processing steps, in order to apply it to a new data set, they will be able to obtain the information needed to download or reconstruct the tools that were used on the original data set. Information about the processing tools needs to be made available by the authors of the tools, is collected at run time by the processing scripts, and uploaded into the MCAT database. <br />[[Data_Provenance:Documentation|Back]] | The BIRN database will be populated with large numbers of medical image volumes which researchers will wish to access and run various processing tools on them in order to obtain derived data. This derived data, such as volumes of various brain structures, cortical thickness etc., will then be placed back into the database, linked to the original volume from which it was produced. If a researcher would like to recreate the processing steps, in order to apply it to a new data set, they will be able to obtain the information needed to download or reconstruct the tools that were used on the original data set. Information about the processing tools needs to be made available by the authors of the tools, is collected at run time by the processing scripts, and uploaded into the MCAT database. <br />[[Data_Provenance:Documentation|Back]] | ||
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The BIRN database will be populated with large numbers of medical image volumes which researchers will wish to access and run various processing tools on them in order to obtain derived data. This derived data, such as volumes of various brain structures, cortical thickness etc., will then be placed back into the database, linked to the original volume from which it was produced. If a researcher would like to recreate the processing steps, in order to apply it to a new data set, they will be able to obtain the information needed to download or reconstruct the tools that were used on the original data set. Information about the processing tools needs to be made available by the authors of the tools, is collected at run time by the processing scripts, and uploaded into the MCAT database.
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