Title
Provenance Management for Neuroimaging Workflows in neuGrid
Abstract
An increased amount of large scale, collaborative biomedical research has recently been conducted on e-Science infrastructures. Such research typically involves conducting comparative analysis on large amounts of data to search for biomarkers for diseases. Running these analysis manually can often be quite cumbersome, labour-intensive and error-prone. Significant work has been invested into automating such analysis with appropriately configured workflows. It is also important for biomedical researchers to validate analysis outcomes, to ensure the reproducibility of the results and to ascertain the ownership of specific scientific results. The detailed, traceable information required for this is often referred to as provenance data. Developing suitable methods and approaches to managing provenance data in large-scale distributed e-Science environments is another important area of research currently being investigated. We present an approach that has been adopted in the neu GRID project, which aims to develop an infrastructure to facilitate research into neurodegenerative disease studies such as Alzheimer's. To facilitate the automation of complex, large-scale analysis in neu GRID, we have adapted CRISTAL, a workflow and provenance tracking solution. The use of CRISTAL has provided a rich environment for neuroscientists to track and manage the evolution of both data and workflows in the neu GRID infrastructure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/3PGCIC.2011.20
3PGCIC
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
neuroimaging workflows,large-scale analysis,biomarker,neu grid infrastructure,diseases,provenance management,neurophysiology,grid computing,large-scale distributed e-science environment,provenance tracking solution,analysis outcome,neu grid project,comparative analysis,provenance,biomedical researcher,neuroimaging,neurodegenerative disease,workflows,cristal,neugrid,neuroimaging workflow,provenance data,medical computing,collaborative biomedical research,biomedical analysis,neu grid,distributed processing,distributed databases,image analysis,distributed database,pipelines,neuroscience
Conference
978-1-4577-1448-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
10
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ashiq Anjum133338.33
Bessis, N.280688.01
Richard Hill37717.96
Richard McClatchey437366.62
Irfan Habib5445.85
Kamran Soomro6565.78
Peter Bloodsworth78810.74
Andrew Branson89913.15