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BIDS for microscopy (BEP031) #510
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Hi @mariehbourget, thanks for sending this in. I realize that you started with a post on Neurostars (https://neurostars.org/t/bids-with-histology-data/7201) and saw that Franklin and Chris already gave some advice. But if you want to get additional feedback from the BIDS community, it may be worth to also send an announcement with a bit more detail about the motivation via the mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bids-discussion) |
Hi Marie-Helene, This is a really great initiative, thanks for starting this up! I do some mri-histology work, mostly in humans (surgical and post-mortem), and happy to contribute where I can and provide datasets too. Two questions that come to mind:
Best, |
Hi @mariehbourget, Thanks for bringing this under the attention through the mailing list. I have made some comments on the google doc. These are mostly general (i.e. I don't have any knowledge about histology) and strategic, and are of a similar nature as the comments that I might place at other BEPs. They refer to the scope and asking for clarifications regarding domain-specific terminology. As BIDS community I feel that we should always remember that neuroscience and neuroimaging are very interdisciplinary; to bridge the gaps between disciplines we have to be inclusive to researchers and possible contributors that fall just outside of our own discipline. I am looking forward to seeing how this will develop! best |
Hi Marie-Helene, This is a great initiative - thank you for starting it! It would be really exciting to be able to share histology data in a standardised format. I've added some comments on the google doc - I'll spread the work to a few other preclinical people I think may be interested in being involved. Would be great to take OHBM as an occasion to have a meet up with those interested! Best wishes, |
Just as a quick aside, it's probably worthwhile to check in with the Bio-Formats folks before you get too deep into this. OME-TIFF is already a fairly mature metadata standard and it's possible that you might end up duplicating some of the efforts that the Open Microscopy folks have already made if you're not careful. [edit]: I guess what I mean is that if you decide (after looking at OME-TIFF) that your use case still merits an extension to BIDS rather than the usage of OME-TIFF, you might want to have the BIDS extension inherit metadata fields from OME-TIFF (similar to how it already inherits from the DICOM metadata standard). |
@akhanf that's a tricky one 😉 |
@akhanf - great suggestions. part of the process should be about capturing the information about coordinates/coordinate systems. the standardizing part may take some effort, but we can learn from several prior things. it would be good to include:
2, what are the different generators of such data (which instruments, what is their native/exported format, etc.,.)? |
Hi @sappelhoff , |
hey @mariehbourget, that's nice! We'll discuss this in our upcoming maintainers meeting next Tuesday and get back to you very soon afterwards. |
Update: The current BEP proposal looks good and you seem to have found several contributors already --> we'll suggest to the steering group to make this BEP official. The next meeting is on the 30th, but I am very positive that we'll have good news then :-) (i.e., feel free to keep working on the BEP until then) |
Hi Histology folks, we have decided to make this BEP official, giving it the number 31 --> BEP031 🎉 I have lso prepared a PR that adds BEP031 to the list of all BIDS extension proposals: bids-standard/bids-website#144 Please review whether that looks fine to you. Once that PR is merged, you'll be able to refer to your BEP using this address: https://bids.neuroimaging.io/bep031 ... that will then redirect to your Google Doc. If in the future you want to change where this link links to, you can simply edit a file on the bids-standarrd/bids-website repository and won't have to distribute an entirely new link. Some important points to keep in mind when continuing to work on your BEP:
That's all from my side so far! Good luck and have fun. |
Fantastic news - thank you @sappelhoff! |
Great news! Thank you @sappelhoff for your help and advice. |
@mariehbourget Wanted to suggest a collaboration. The NIH Common Fund's Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions ( SPARC) program is collecting microscopy data (and other data such as genomics, electrophysiology) with the addition of annotations and segmentation (via MBF Bioscience). As part of this work, BIDS was used as a foundation for the data within SPARC ( https://sparc.science/help/3FXikFXC8shPRd8xZqhjVT ). Information about samples is included and information about appropriate metadata for samples and subjects (e.g. from MINDS) is also included. We (including @tgbugs @bandrow ) are part of the SPARC curation core and would be interested in joining these discussions. |
Thank you for reaching out @jgrethe ! Glad to have you and your team being part of these discussions. |
Hi @jgrethe , thank you for reaching out and joining the discussion. |
Hi, Thanks for starting this community effort! Two cents for the Martinos Center (@brf2), where we're working with multimodal datasets that include 3D microscopy (OCT and light-sheet microscopy): it would be beneficial to make choices that are compatible with 3D datasets. I don't think that having separate BEP for 2D and 3D microscopy makes sense, there's way too much overlap between these. It would also be super useful to think about coordinates systems / spatial mapping (most microscopy formats don't include the equivalent of an affine transform). Having a look at what's done in the GIS community could be interesting: they have very similar problems as us (coordinate systems, large files, pyramids, etc). I have added a few comments on the google doc. Thanks again |
Hi everyone, I’m a student in NeuroPoly Lab at Polytechnique Montreal. We are looking into BIDS for histology and would like to start a conversation with the community. Here is our BIDS proposal for handling histology data, you can comment or make suggestions directly on the doc. Comments and feedback are welcome!
This is a continuation of the issue on Neurostars.
Best,
Marie-Helene
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