Neurosynth Compose: New frontiers in neuroimaging Meta-Analyses

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre 

Meta-analyses play an instrumental role in the field of neuroimaging to summarize and generate consensus (or lack thereof!) across studies. The outcomes of these meta-analyses can inform clinicians about a subfield of neuroscience and help researchers generate novel hypotheses. Following the standards of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), meta-analyses are both time and resource intensive. However, this does not need to be the case. By leveraging automation and crowdsourcing the work of active users, we've created a platform that makes running a meta-analysis open, reproducible, and efficient. Here, we present Neurosynth Compose, a powerful and intuitive platform for curating and annotating studies as well as specifying and executing meta-analyses openly and reproducibly.