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Neuroimaging Data Model (NIDM): describing neuroimaging data and provenance
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Use of "Subject" versus "Participant" #425

Closed khelm closed 6 years ago

khelm commented 6 years ago

NCI Thesaurus and BIDS uses "Participant", but NCIT defines it as "Someone who takes part in an activity."

HL7, SIO, An ontology for experimental actions (EXACT), etc use "Subject". HL7 defines it as "The principle target on which the action happens. Examples:The patient in physical examination, a specimen in a lab observation. "
QIBO also has the parent "Imaging Subject" with children: Ex_vivo_subject In_vivo_subject In_vitro_subject Phantom_experimental_subject that we are currently using.

The definition HL7 definition seems closer to what we are modeling and we would have to then define our own versions of the QIBO terms, so this warrants discussion.

khelm commented 6 years ago

Discussed on 10/9/2017 conference call. Decided to go with "Subject" as HL7 definition is clearer and we can map the BIDS term to sio:Subject.