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Despite their young age, the FAIR principles are recognised as important guidelines for research data management. Their generic design, however, leaves much room for interpretation in domain-specific application. Based on practical experience in the operation of a data repository, this article addresses problems in FAIR provisioning of medical data for research purposes in the use case of the Leipzig Health Atlas project and shows necessary future developments.

Authors: M. Lobe, F. Matthies, S. Staubert, F. A. Meineke, A. Winter

Date Published: 16th Jun 2020

Publication Type: Journal article

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We here describe the evolution of annotation guidelines for major clinical named entities, namely Diagnosis, Findings and Symptoms, on a corpus of approximately 1,000 German discharge letters. Due to their intrinsic opaqueness and complexity, clinical annotation tasks require continuous guideline tuning, beginning from the initial definition of crucial entities and the subsequent iterative evolution of guidelines based on empirical evidence. We describe rationales for adaptation, with focus on several metrical criteria and task-centered clinical constraints.

Authors: C. Lohr, L. Modersohn, J. Hellrich, T. Kolditz, U. Hahn

Date Published: 16th Jun 2020

Publication Type: InProceedings

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BACKGROUND: The aim of the German Medical Informatics Initiative is to establish a national infrastructure for integrating and sharing health data. To this, Data Integration Centers are set up at university medical centers, which address data harmonization, information security and data protection. To capture patient consent, a common informed consent template has been developed. It consists of different modules addressing permissions for using data and biosamples. On the technical level, a common digital representation of information from signed consent templates is needed. As the partners in the initiative are free to adopt different solutions for managing consent information (e.g. IHE BPPC or HL7 FHIR Consent Resources), we had to develop an interoperability layer. METHODS: First, we compiled an overview of data items required to reflect the information from the MII consent template as well as patient preferences and derived permissions. Next, we created entity-relationship diagrams to formally describe the conceptual data model underlying relevant items. We then compared this data model to conceptual models describing representations of consent information using different interoperability standards. We used the result of this comparison to derive an interoperable representation that can be mapped to common standards. RESULTS: The digital representation needs to capture the following information: (1) version of the consent, (2) consent status for each module, and (3) period of validity of the status. We found that there is no generally accepted solution to represent status information in a manner interoperable with all relevant standards. Hence, we developed a pragmatic solution, comprising codes which describe combinations of modules with a basic set of status labels. We propose to maintain these codes in a public registry called ART-DECOR. We present concrete technical implementations of our approach using HL7 FHIR and IHE BPPC which are also compatible with the open-source consent management software gICS. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed digital representation is (1) generic enough to capture relevant information from a wide range of consent documents and data use regulations and (2) interoperable with common technical standards. We plan to extend our model to include more fine-grained status codes and rules for automated access control.

Authors: R. Bild, M. Bialke, K. Buckow, T. Ganslandt, K. Ihrig, R. Jahns, A. Merzweiler, S. Roschka, B. Schreiweis, S. Staubert, S. Zenker, F. Prasser

Date Published: 5th Jun 2020

Publication Type: Journal article

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We have carried out meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) (n = 23 784) of the first two principal components (PCs) that group together cortical regions with shared variance in their surface area. PC1 (global) captured variations of most regions, whereas PC2 (visual) was specific to the primary and secondary visual cortices. We identified a total of 18 (PC1) and 17 (PC2) independent loci, which were replicated in another 25 746 individuals. The loci of the global PC1 included those associated previously with intracranial volume and/or general cognitive function, such as MAPT and IGF2BP1. The loci of the visual PC2 included DAAM1, a key player in the planar-cell-polarity pathway. We then tested associations with occupational aptitudes and, as predicted, found that the global PC1 was associated with General Learning Ability, and the visual PC2 was associated with the Form Perception aptitude. These results suggest that interindividual variations in global and regional development of the human cerebral cortex (and its molecular architecture) cascade-albeit in a very limited manner-to behaviors as complex as the choice of one’s occupation.

Authors: Jean Shin, Shaojie Ma, Edith Hofer, Yash Patel, Daniel E. Vosberg, Steven Tilley, Gennady V. Roshchupkin, André M. M. Sousa, Xueqiu Jian, Rebecca Gottesman, Thomas H. Mosley, Myriam Fornage, Yasaman Saba, Lukas Pirpamer, Reinhold Schmidt, Helena Schmidt, Amaia Carrion-Castillo, Fabrice Crivello, Bernard Mazoyer, Joshua C. Bis, Shuo Li, Qiong Yang, Michelle Luciano, Sherif Karama, Lindsay Lewis, Mark E. Bastin, Mathew A. Harris, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Ian E. Deary, Markus Scholz, Markus Loeffler, A. Veronica Witte, Frauke Beyer, Arno Villringer, Nicola J. Armstrong, Karen A. Mather, David Ames, Jiyang Jiang, John B. Kwok, Peter R. Schofield, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Julian N. Trollor, Margaret J. Wright, Henry Brodaty, Wei Wen, Perminder S. Sachdev, Natalie Terzikhan, Tavia E. Evans, Hieab H. H. H. Adams, M. Arfan Ikram, Stefan Frenzel, Sandra van der Auwera-Palitschka, Katharina Wittfeld, Robin Bülow, Hans Jörgen Grabe, Christophe Tzourio, Aniket Mishra, Sophie Maingault, Stephanie Debette, Nathan A. Gillespie, Carol E. Franz, William S. Kremen, Linda Ding, Neda Jahanshad, Nenad Sestan, Zdenka Pausova, Sudha Seshadri, Tomas Paus

Date Published: 1st Jun 2020

Publication Type: Journal article

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BACKGROUND: The aim of the German Medical Informatics Initiative is to establish a national infrastructure for integrating and sharing health data. To this, Data Integration Centers are set up at university medical centers, which address data harmonization, information security and data protection. To capture patient consent, a common informed consent template has been developed. It consists of different modules addressing permissions for using data and biosamples. On the technical level, a common digital representation of information from signed consent templates is needed. As the partners in the initiative are free to adopt different solutions for managing consent information (e.g. IHE BPPC or HL7 FHIR Consent Resources), we had to develop an interoperability layer. METHODS: First, we compiled an overview of data items required to reflect the information from the MII consent template as well as patient preferences and derived permissions. Next, we created entity-relationship diagrams to formally describe the conceptual data model underlying relevant items. We then compared this data model to conceptual models describing representations of consent information using different interoperability standards. We used the result of this comparison to derive an interoperable representation that can be mapped to common standards. RESULTS: The digital representation needs to capture the following information: (1) version of the consent, (2) consent status for each module, and (3) period of validity of the status. We found that there is no generally accepted solution to represent status information in a manner interoperable with all relevant standards. Hence, we developed a pragmatic solution, comprising codes which describe combinations of modules with a basic set of status labels. We propose to maintain these codes in a public registry called ART-DECOR. We present concrete technical implementations of our approach using HL7 FHIR and IHE BPPC which are also compatible with the open-source consent management software gICS. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed digital representation is (1) generic enough to capture relevant information from a wide range of consent documents and data use regulations and (2) interoperable with common technical standards. We plan to extend our model to include more fine-grained status codes and rules for automated access control.

Authors: Raffael Bild, Martin Bialke, Karoline Buckow, Thomas Ganslandt, Kristina Ihrig, Roland Jahns, Angela Merzweiler, Sybille Roschka, Björn Schreiweis, Sebastian Stäubert, Sven Zenker, Fabian Prasser

Date Published: 1st Jun 2020

Publication Type: Journal article

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Despite their young age, the FAIR principles are recognised as important guidelines for research data management. Their generic design, however, leaves much room for interpretation in domain-specific application. Based on practical experience in the operation of a data repository, this article addresses problems in FAIR provisioning of medical data for research purposes in the use case of the Leipzig Health Atlas project and shows necessary future developments.

Authors: Matthias Löbe, Franz Matthies, Sebastian Stäubert, Frank A Meineke, Alfred Winter

Date Published: 1st Jun 2020

Publication Type: Journal article

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We here describe the evolution of annotation guidelines for major clinical named entities, namely Diagnosis, Findings and Symptoms, on a corpus of approximately 1,000 German discharge letters. Due to their intrinsic opaqueness and complexity, clinical annotation tasks require continuous guideline tuning, beginning from the initial definition of crucial entities and the subsequent iterative evolution of guidelines based on empirical evidence. We describe rationales for adaptation, with focus on several metrical criteria and task-centered clinical constraints.

Authors: Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Johannes Hellrich, Tobias Kolditz, Udo Hahn

Date Published: 1st Jun 2020

Publication Type: Journal article

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