The Neural Engineering Data Consortium: Building Community Resources to Advance Research

尽管近年来神经工程取得了重大进展，但该领域的总体进展似乎与投资范围不相称。很明显，该领域可以受益于一种新的研究和开发模式，专注于强大的算法开发。这项规划补助金的目的是发展社区支持在坦普尔大学创建神经工程数据联盟（NEDC）。NEDC将研究界的注意力集中在研究问题的进展上，并生成和管理用于解决这些问题的大量数据集。在这个奖项下，我们正在进行一系列广泛的研讨会和实地考察，以建立来自学术界和工业界的各种研究小组之间的共识。在现场研究的指导下，我们正在为NEDC开发一个同时与学术研究、行业研发和政府资助机构相关的运营模式。NEDC旨在显著加快研究进展，并提供促进更强大技术开发的资源。我们还通过向具有重要信号处理专业知识但缺乏数据生成能力的研究小组提供数据来扩大神经工程研究的参与。因此，通过吸引更多的人参与有重点的评价任务，得到资助的研究的影响得到了改善。最后，NEDC正在加速将技术转移到医疗保健市场，在那里它可以直接提高各种患者的生活质量。

Despite significant progress in Neural Engineering in recent years, overall progress in the field does not appear to have been commensurate with the scope of investment. It has become evident that the field can benefit from a new paradigm in research and development that focuses on robust algorithm development. The purpose of this planning grant is to develop community support for the creation of the Neural Engineering Data Consortium (NEDC) at Temple University. The NEDC is focusing the attention of the research community on a progression of research questions as well as generating and curating massive data sets to be used in addressing those questions. Under this award, we are conducting an extensive series of workshops and site visits to build consensus amongst various research groups from academia and industry. Guided by this site research, we are developing an operational model for the NEDC that is simultaneously relevant to academic research, industry R&D, and government funding agencies. The NEDC is structured to significantly accelerate research progress and provide resources that promote the development of more robust technology. We are also broadening participation in neural engineering research by making data available to research groups who have significant signal processing expertise but who lack capacity for data generation. The impact of funded research is thus improved by enticing more participation in focused evaluation tasks. Finally, the NEDC is accelerating the transfer of technology to the healthcare marketplace, where it can directly enhance quality of life for a variety of patients.