NeuroSynth Compose Glossary#

Project#

A project is intended to be the basis of a neuroimaging meta-analysis paper. A project contains the curation of the studies, the specifications of the meta-analyses, as well as the results of the meta-analyses. An individual should be able to publish a paper based on a project.

Meta-Analysis#

A meta-analysis is comprised of three parts:

  1. A collection of analyses from multiple studies that are combined to produce results.

  2. A specification of method(s) used to combine the analyses.

  3. The statistical results after running the method(s) on the analyses.

Studyset#

A Studyset is a collection of studies. You can create a Studyset by uploading studies or by searching for studies in the Neurosynth-Compose platform.

Study#

A study is a single neuroimaging study. A study could be published in a journal, a preprint, or a conference proceeding, or not be published at all. A study is composed of one or more Analyses.

Analysis#

An analysis is a single neuroimaging analysis within a study. An analysis contains a contrast of conditions and associated results in the form of coordinates and/or statistical maps. Analyses are the unit of analysis in NeuroSynth-Compose. Many meta-analyses only include one analysis from each study, but it is possible to include multiple analyses from a single study, necessitating the selection of what to include in the meta-analysis at the analysis level and not the study level.

Annotation#

An annotation refers to the collection of labels that are associated with analyses.

Note#

the labels that are associated with a specific analysis.