ORMIR-MIDS#
Standardizing the structure of musculoskeletal imaging data
What is ORMIR-MIDS?#
Musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging data can be structured in various ways, depending on institutional, group, or personal preferences.
Having a standardized data structure is highly desirable to facilitate data sharing and to provide a common interface for processing and analysis software to read and write data in an interoperable way
Currently, there is no defined standard on how the MSK imaging data should be structured.
Inspired by the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) tools, the ORMIR community is creating ORMIR-MIDS to structure MSK imaging data
ORMIR-MIDS includes two aspects:
How to organize MSK medical images and corresponding clinical information
To transform MSK imaging data into a standard structure
Why is ORMIR-MIDS important for MSK computational tools?#
We want to have a uniform interface for software tools for MSK image processing and analysis.
Ideally, each tool will have a command-line interface with the following syntax:
msk_software_tool <patient_folder>
where patient_folder is the location of the root (or parent) folder containing the acquired data, structured according to the ORMIR-MIDS standard specification
The MSK tools should also output data in the correct format in the same folder structure
Why the name ORMIR-MIDS? How did ORMIR-MIDS start?
ORMIR-MIDS comes from ORMIR (Open and Reproducible Musculoskeletal Imaging Research (ORMIR) community and MIDS (Medical Imaging Data Structure)
The development of ORMIR-MIDS specification and package started during the 2nd ORMIR workshop Sharing and Curating Open Data in Musculoskeletal Imaging Research and is currently ongoing.
ORMIR-MIDS is an extension of muscle-BIDS, which was partly developed during the 1st ORMIR workshop Building the Jupyter Community in Musculoskeletal Imaging Research.
Both ORMIR-MIDS and muscle-BIDS are part of the ORMIR community core projects.
How do I cite ORMIR-MIDS?
Thank you for citing ORMIR-MIDS! Here is our publication:
S. Bonaretti, M. A. Espinosa Hernandez, F. Chiumento, Y. Founas, M. Froeling, J. Hirvasniemi, G. Iori, Y. Lee, S. Matuschik, M. Monzon, F. Santini, D. Cameron. ORMIR-MIDS: An open standard for curating and sharing musculoskeletal imaging data. 24th International Workshop on Quantitative Musculoskeletal Imaging (QMSKI). The Barossa Valley, South Australia. November 3-8, 2024.