Reproducibility Made Easy: A Tool for Methodological Transparency and Efficient Standardized Reporting Based on the Proposed MRSinMRS Consensus
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Recent expert consensus publications have highlighted the issue of poor reproducibility in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies, mainly due to the lack of standardized reporting criteria, which affects their clinical applicability. To combat this, guidelines for minimum reporting standards (MRSinMRS) were introduced to aid journal editors and reviewers in ensuring the comprehensive documentation of essential MRS study parameters. Despite these efforts, the implementation of MRSinMRS standards has been slow, attributed to the diverse nomenclature used by different vendors, the variety of raw MRS data formats, and the absence of appropriate software tools for identifying and reporting necessary parameters. To overcome this obstacle, we have developed the REproducibility Made Easy (REMY) standalone toolbox. REMY software supports a range of MRS data formats from major vendors like GE (.7), Siemens (.ima, .rda, .dcm), Philips (.spar/.sdat), and Bruker (.method), and MRS-NIfTI (.nii/nii.gz/.json) files facilitating easy data import and export through a user-friendly interface. REMY employs external libraries such as spec2nii and pymapVBVD to accurately read and process these diverse data formats, translating complex header information into a comprehensive structure that adheres to consensus reporting standards, thereby ensuring compatibility and ease of use for researchers in generating reproducible MRS research outputs. Users can select and import datasets, choose the appropriate vendor and data format, and then generate an MRSinMRS table, log file, and methodological documents in both Latex and PDF formats by just clicking one button. No coding knowledge is required, making the tool accessible to a wider range of users, including researchers and clinicians without programming expertise. This eliminates technical challenges related to data formatting and reporting. REMY effectively populated key sections of the MRSinMRS table with data from all supported file types. Accurate generation of hardware parameters including field strength, manufacturer, and scanner software version were demonstrated. However, it could not input data for RF coil and additional hardware information due to their absence in the files. For the acquisition section, REMY accurately read and populated fields for the pulse sequence name, nominal voxel size, repetition time (TR), echo time (TE), number of acquisitions/excitations/shots, spectral width (Hz), and number of spectral points, significantly contributing to the completion of the "Acquisition" fields of the table. Furthermore, REMY generates a boilerplate methods text section for manuscripts. The use of REMY will facilitate more widespread adoption of the MRSinMRS checklist within the MRS community, making it easier to write and report acquisition parameters effectively.
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- Titre Crossref
- Reproducibility Made Easy: A Tool for Methodological Transparency and Efficient Standardized Reporting Based on the Proposed MRSinMRS Consensus
- Date Crossref
- 02/05/2025
- Éditeur
- Wiley
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- journal-article
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging et Centre d'Imagerie BioMedicale, avec 9 autres affiliations.
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