A checklist for methods and results reporting for neuroimaging studies
Try the app for fMRI HERE!
This checklist is still work in progress. The current prototype has been built using the 88 metadata items list used by the Neurovault website when uploading your neuroimaging results.
We are currently working to create a more complete checklist as described in the OHBM COBIDAS reports for MRI, fMRI, EEG and MEG (see below for more information).
But there are already prototype versions:
| web app | reference | spreadsheet | Github repository |
|---|---|---|---|
| COBIDAS MRI | link | ||
| neurovault | link | spreadsheet | |
| pet | link | spreadsheet | github |
| eyetracking | link | spreadsheet | github |
| artemis | link | spreadsheet | github |
| reexecution | link | spreadsheet | github |
You can navigate each section on the left and then answer the questions corresponding to your fMRI analysis. This is meant to make sure that you have not forgotten any of the essential information in the methods and results parts of your article.
At the end, you can click on Export (bottom left) to get a zip file containing
machine readable json files that captures information about your method/results
section: our next step is to use this to automate the part of the methods
writing and to submit the information alongside data submission to Neurovault
and other data archives.
- drop us an email on our google group.
- open an issue this github repository.
- leave a message on the
cobidas_checklistchannel on the brainhack mattermost.Join our channel
Poor methods and results description hinders the reproducibility and the replicability of research. It also makes it hard to compare new and old results and generally increases inefficiency in the research process. This project is built on the hope that improving methods and results reporting could improve our research.
Follow the link if you want to know more about the motivations behind this project.
This checklist is a project to make a user friendly checklist out the best practices report of the Committee on Best Practices in Data Analysis and Sharing (COBIDAS) of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
Currently the sections and items in the checklist correspond to the list of metadata used by neurovault website when uploading your neuroimaging results.
This is very much of a work in progress but the next step is to expand the list to cover all the items of the COBIDAS report for fMRI as well as for the recent extension to EEG and MEG.
Join our working group at the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
We are currently working on trying to expand the number of items used in the checklist. All of this work is done in google spreadsheets.
For more information on the content and organization of these spreadsheets see HERE.
Most of the information concerning this project can be found on this github repository.
If you want to be kept posted about the progress of the project, you can join our google group.
From more frequent updates and behind the scenes, come and join us on the
cobidas_checklist channel on the brainhack mattermost.
There is also an OSF project to centralize all the information and repos.
We have a list of short, middle, long term goals: if you are interested by any of those get in touch. Many of them do not necessarily require super-advanced technical skills (except maybe a certain love for working with spreadsheet and wanting them to be super organized) 😉.
The list of the people involved in this project can be found here.
The protocol is licensed CC-BY-4.0
(c) 2020 COBIDAS Contributors