From b3bfb1f6d9693069b3d6dd83bdf86ef4c7f9ba97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: evast Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:47:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md Added headers --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f66fc1d..bd13c2d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,10 +3,16 @@ This TranSMART-XNAT-Importer plugin can import clinical image-derived data from ![alt tag](https://raw.github.com/evast/transmart-xnat-importer-plugin/master/docs/navigator.png) XNAT Data hierarchy shown in TranSMART ontology. +Background +---------- + TranSMART (http://transmartfoundation.org) is a data integration and browsing platform for central statistical analysis in translational research. XNAT (www.xnat.org) is a framework to store, share and manage medical imaging data. This imaging archive can be connected to a computing cluster for further image analyses. After analyses of the images, the analysis results (e.g. grey matter volumes) can be stored back in XNAT. To correlate the image-derived results with other medical data, such as demographic or genetic data, it would be useful to import the XNAT results in TranSMART. To this end, we developed the TranSMART-XNAT-Importer plugin. To configure which XNAT image-derived data is imported in TranSMART, an administrator can create a coupling configuration in the online administration panel and start the import process. The plugin uses the default ETL Importer for clinical data to import the XNAT results in TranSMART. +Installation +------------ + Full background of the plugin, installation instructions and a user-guide to import data, can be found in documention.docx in the directory docs.