AUTHOR=Barillot Christian , Bannier Elise , Commowick Olivier , Corouge Isabelle , Baire Anthony , Fakhfakh Ines , Guillaumont Justine , Yao Yao , Kain Michael TITLE=Shanoir: Applying the Software as a Service Distribution Model to Manage Brain Imaging Research Repositories JOURNAL=Frontiers in ICT VOLUME=3 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ict/articles/10.3389/fict.2016.00025 DOI=10.3389/fict.2016.00025 ISSN=2297-198X ABSTRACT=

Two of the major concerns of researchers and clinicians performing neuroimaging experiments are managing the huge quantity and diversity of data and the ability to compare their experiments and the programs they develop with those of their peers. In this context, we introduce Shanoir, which uses a type of cloud computing known as software as a service to manage neuroimaging data used in the clinical neurosciences. Thanks to a formal model of medical imaging data (an ontology), Shanoir provides an open source neuroinformatics environment designed to structure, manage, archive, visualize, and share neuroimaging data with an emphasis on managing multi-institutional, collaborative research projects. This article covers how images are accessed through the Shanoir Data Management System and describes the data repositories that are hosted and managed by the Shanoir environment in different contexts.