Integrating the BIDS Neuroimaging Data Format and Workflow Optimization for Large-Scale Medical Image Analysis.

A robust medical image computing infrastructure must host massive multimodal archives, perform extensive analysis pipelines, and execute scalable job management. An emerging data format standard, the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), introduces complexities for interfacing with XNAT archives. Mor...

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Published in:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 1576 - 1590
Main Authors: Bao, Shunxing, Boyd, Brian D., Kanakaraj, Praitayini, Ramadass, Karthik, Meyer, Francisco A. C., Liu, Yuqian, Duett, William E., Huo, Yuankai, Lyu, Ilwoo, Zald, David H., Smith, Seth A., Rogers, Baxter P., Landman, Bennett A.
Format: algorithm computer program diagnostic images research tables/charts tracings Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2022
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          Bao, Shunxing
          Boyd, Brian D.
          Kanakaraj, Praitayini
          Ramadass, Karthik
          Meyer, Francisco A. C.
          Liu, Yuqian
          Duett, William E.
          Huo, Yuankai
          Lyu, Ilwoo
          Zald, David H.
          Smith, Seth A.
          Rogers, Baxter P.
          Landman, Bennett A.
        affil: Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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          Diagnostic Imaging
          Workflow
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted
          Data Management
          Systems Development
          Human
          Cloud Computing
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      ab: A robust medical image computing infrastructure must host massive multimodal archives, perform extensive analysis pipelines, and execute scalable job management. An emerging data format standard, the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), introduces complexities for interfacing with XNAT archives. Moreover, workflow integration is combinatorically problematic when matching large amount of processing to large datasets. Historically, workflow engines have been focused on refining workflows themselves instead of actual job generation. However, such an approach is incompatible with data centric architecture that hosts heterogeneous medical image computing. Distributed automation for XNAT toolkit (DAX) provides large-scale image storage and analysis pipelines with an optimized job management tool. Herein, we describe developments for DAX that allows for integration of XNAT and BIDS standards. We also improve DAX's efficiencies of diverse containerized workflows in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment. Briefly, we integrate YAML configuration processor scripts to abstract workflow data inputs, data outputs, commands, and job attributes. Finally, we propose an online database–driven mechanism for DAX to efficiently identify the most recent updated sessions, thereby improving job building efficiency on large projects. We refer the proposed overall DAX development in this work as DAX-1 (DAX version 1). To validate the effectiveness of the new features, we verified (1) the efficiency of converting XNAT data to BIDS format and the correctness of the conversion using a collection of BIDS standard containerized neuroimaging workflows, (2) how YAML-based processor simplified configuration setup via a sequence of application pipelines, and (3) the productivity of DAX-1 on generating actual HPC processing jobs compared with earlier DAX baseline method. The empirical results show that (1) DAX-1 converting XNAT data to BIDS has similar speed as accessing XNAT data only; (2) YAML can integrate to the DAX-1 with shallow learning curve for users, and (3) DAX-1 reduced the job/assessor generation latency by finding recent modified sessions. Herein, we present approaches for efficiently integrating XNAT and modern image formats with a scalable workflow engine for the large-scale dataset access and processing.
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