Design

This page documents the design of CSPM, including software and database. It will be added to piece by piece.

Subjects and Data

The "Subjects and Data" GUI gives access to the list of subjects and the data recorded for each one. The approach is to store minimal information for each subject (sex, DoB, handedness), comments and basic vitals (weight, height) through the Subject GUI. Other covariates are stored as "Covariates." 

The study data for each subject is entered as MRI scans, physiological recordings, or everything else ("metrics") that are recorded as discrete values, such as vitals (BP, HR) and surveys. A key principal is that the data are not grouped at this stage; that comes later in the Project configuration. Thus multiple MRI scans from the same or different sessions are entered as rows. If a survey is repeated, there will be one entry for each measure. Even for a home study with daily questionnaires, each day will show as a different entry.

Projects

This is the group and studies within groups, like patient, control, follow-up (post-intervention), repeats. The data for each subjects are classified here, as say resting state, a task type, an fMRI linked to physiology and so on.

Sets

A combination of studies organizing into groups specific to an analysis.

Preprocessing

Automatic preprocessing and compilation into a "stats" set for statistical analysis, descriptve stats and so on. 

Since this is automatic, manual tasks must come before this step - VOI tracing, physiology analysis like peak detection and so on.