Invitation to submit a short survey for sharing imaging data at NeuroJSON.io
Qianqian Fang
Dear colleagues and registered MCX users,
I would like to invite you to participate a short survey to help
us further develop a scientific data sharing platform at
NeuroJSON.io (https://neurojson.io/)
Please use the following URL to participate this survey (<5 min to complete):
NeuroJSON is a public/open data sharing platform developed under my NIH U24 award. The project is aimed at creating scalable, searchable, and human-understandable scientific/imaging data sharing platforms and data formats to enhance FAIR (findable/accessible) data.
We have built a web-based data portal NeuroJSON.io for disseminating public optical/neuroimaging datasets. This portal currently hosts 21 databases (i.e. collections), over 1,500 datasets, with freely-accessible imaging (MRI/EEG/MEG/fNIRS/DOT) clinical data measured over 58,000 subjects, with a total of 38TB of externally linked imaging data. The back-end of the platform is built upon a modern NoSQL database, that allows efficient search of complex data and REST-API access.
Starting from MCX/MMC v2025 release, we have integrated NeuroJSON hosted online simulation libraries (https://neurojson.org/db/mcx) with mcx/mcxcl/mmc via the --net/-N flag. We are hoping to further expand this functionality with deeper integration between MCX and NeuroJSON. Recently, we have also released a 3D MCX simulation library made of 1500 random domains (each with 5x photon numbers) as machine-learning training datasets. You can download all simulation inputs and outputs from our NeuroJSON site at https://neurojson.org/db/cotilab/MCX_DL_Denoiser_2022
We would like to hear your feedback on the current utility of our resources, and what we should be providing in the next steps.
We appreciate your time and kind suggestions. We also look forward to collaborations and integrations with your research, please reach out if you are interested in hosting your data on our site or integrate our resources in your software tools/pipelines!
Cheers
Qianqian Fang, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, Northeastern
University, USA
PS: An animation of the current NeuroJSON.io website can be found
at this LinkedIn post:
https://neurojson.org/tutorials/overview/neurojson_io_demo_20250330.mp4