USC's Dornsife Neuroimaging Center Uses Flywheel to Improve Data Sharing and Collaboration
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Flywheel's research data platform
Tech Stack
- Cloud Computing
- Data Management
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Education
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
The Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center (DNI) is a resource for USC scientists seeking to understand the relation between neural and mental phenomena in humans. The Center serves the neuroimaging needs of researchers across the university as they seek to disseminate knowledge about the brain, mind, and imaging practices to students and the public. The Center's leadership includes Dr. Jonas Kaplan, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Co-Director of the DNI, who was seeking a new platform to manage his lab's data.
The Challenge
The Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center (DNI) at the University of Southern California (USC) was facing challenges in distributing data to researchers across the university community. The data from scans conducted at the center had to be transferred to DVDs and delivered to individual researchers or pushed onto the researcher's own DICOM server. These manual processes often resulted in delays and quality concerns. Additionally, Dr. Jonas Kaplan, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Co-Director of the DNI, was seeking a new platform to manage his lab's data. He wanted a solution that would allow him to access and curate his data quickly and accurately, while also providing a secure mechanism for sharing data with collaborators and students.
The Solution
The DNI chose to install Flywheel, a comprehensive data management platform for imaging research, to manage and distribute the Center's data. Flywheel's capabilities include the ability to ingest data from disparate sources, curate data to common standards, automate processing, and provide for secure collaboration. With Flywheel, the Center is able to provide value-added services to research labs across the university and support improved productivity through faster, secure delivery of data. Center administrators can also ensure quality control with automated checks and support remote access. In addition to using Flywheel to manage the Center's data, Dr. Kaplan uses the lab version to manage his own research. Flywheel's capabilities to automatically convert data from DICOM to NIFTI and support consistent data curation, allow Dr. Kaplan to spend much more time analyzing the data and disseminating findings instead of managing and processing data.
Operational Impact
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