Li Yao, Ph.D.Dean and Prof.College of Information Science and TechnologyBeijing Normal University (BNU), China
Neuroimaging
Big Data and the Privacy Issue
1, Background
BeijingWashington
Beijing Normal University
College of Information Science and Technology
State Key Lab of Cognitive
Neuroscience and Learning
1, Background College of Information Science and Technology State Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning
EEG
MRI
fNIRS
Our lab develops and employs multiple analytic approaches to understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms of brain development and genetic constraints. Neuroimaging data are from multiple sources such as behavioral, molecular genetics, EEG, MRI, NIRS.
1, Background
(c) Initiation and continued development on procedures to enhance the learning capacities using neuro-feedback techniques.
2, Big Data from NeuroImaging
Characteristics with 4V
How big the neuroimaging data?~100,000 locations, measured simultaneously hundreds of times, resulting in billions of pairwise relation, collected in multiple experimental conditions, and from multiple participants per study.
2, Big Data from NeuroImaging
Problems:
Privacy How to best protect individual
privacy while making the needed information available to research?
Security How to secure the data on the cloud or severs that is also an important issue
to private information?
3, Privacy and Security
Current Situation in China:Privacy and Ethics:
Approved by IRB
Research Consent form
strategies to privacy: Training and education Some techniques: de-faced, demographic information…strategies to Security: The existing techniques are mature and available.
4, Future strategies
In my opinion, the most important, above all of these, the rule, law and policies need to be made from the central and local governments.
What I am seeking:(a) techniques on securing the patients or study
participants privacy in handling neuroimaging and behavior “big data”,
(b) ways to assist government regulatory agencies’ sharing policy,
(c) understanding the culture and ethics difference in big data environments between western countries and China.
What I have to offer: Expertise in: (a) design and acquisition different kinds of
human neuro-imaging data, (b) application of various analytic approaches to
process and understand brain data and their relations to learning and human behaviors from patients with Alzheimer’s to people who are cognitively normal,
(c) initiation and continued development on procedures to enhance the learning capacities using real-time neuro-feedback provided by fMRI and EEG techniques.