Agora

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Data management for your lab - Empowering your research.

Image data, meta data, raw data, protocols, questionaires, log files, analysis results - organized, available, sharerable, all in one platform.

Agora is a comprehensive solution for archiving, organizing, and accessing research data. With Agora, you can easily configure an environment that exactly matches the needs of your lab for data organization and accessibility. Connect multiple scanners that will automatically feed raw-, image-, and meta-data to the Agora platform. Your data remains in-house and you can implement or use your own existing data backup solutions. Lab collaborators access data selectively using a web browser and a personalized account.

Agora for data processing

Agora can be configured for any lab environment and allows embedding existing data processing tools and scripts. Arbitrary processing tasks can easily be set up and shared with other users. The tasks can run on the Agora server or any other accessible host. Versatile task execution triggers allow to automate single processing steps or entire processing pipelines.

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Data Valorisation

Your data is the essence of your research and deserves a data management system up to the task. With Agora, data is automatically collected from your MR scanner or easily imported from your web browser with just one click.

Data Completeness

Because Agora will store all acquisition parameters including the complete pulse sequence description along with your data, you will be able to find, re-use, and share it in current and future projects and studies.

Data Accessibility

Agora lets you view, search, download, or reconstruct your data conveniently in your web browser. Manage ownership and share datasets with your collaborators. Attach documents and comments or build custom-made processing pipelines, all within Agora.

Data Protection

Agora helps you maintain the data integrity and enables truly reproducible data processing. Easily implement and meet your institutional and regulatory data protection requirements with Agora.

AI Ready

Agora is the perfect platform to organize and label your data. Directly connect your machine learning networks to the platform and seamlessly feed and classify data.

QA for Research Studies

De-identifcation of data, version history tracking of files and parameter values, task asignment and progress monitoring, full and complete action logging. Agora enpowers you to conduct well-run studies and trials while fullfilling highest quality control and quality assurance standards. Include any type of data for your studies directly in Agora or link with external data such as from RedCap.

Powerful Data Processing

Use the built-in processing tools or connect your favorite processing software to define complete processing pipelines. Define where your processing takes place: on a specific client, on the server, or in the cloud. Schedule or trigger execution on specific events.

Share and Collaborate

Research is all about collaboration. Share data with other users or exchange data with your collaborators over the cloud. Use the built-in image data converters to export data in many common file formats. Or use the Matlab-, Phython-, or C++ SDK to write your own converter.

Agora web user interface screenshots.

"Properly organize, manage, process and archive your data. Both imaging and associated data."

"Agora brings your data managment to a new level. For all your research projects, every day."

"Whether you are a small or a large research lab, whether you conduct clinical studies, explore artificial intelligence, or develop image reconstruction algorithms: Agora is the essential tool to take full control of your data."

"With Agora, we can finally focus on science. Agora is the solution for data archiving and quality assurance."

Features

Data Collection

Automated collection and direct transfer of data from the scanner to the Agora server.
Supported file formats for metadata collection: DICOM, Philips RAW/LAB, Philips PAR/REC, Siemens Raw, ISMRMRD, Bruker raw & imaging data.
Collection and storage of the complete acquisition sequence description and other acquisition-related metadata like log files, scan protocol, graphical viewer file etc.
Upload and management of arbitrary files such as pdf, jpeg, office documents, program code listings, and others.

Access

Powerful filtering and search options on data and metadata within the database.
Platform-independent access and image viewing via the web-browser.
Python, Matlab, C++ and command-line SDK's for direct data access within custom written applications and scripts.
Export image data in various file formats: DICOM, Philips Par/Rec, Nifti, jpeg, tiff, bmp.

Security

Individual owner and group access rights for each dataset. Secure data sharing across collaborators and teams.
Advanced data anonymization according to the DICOM standard at various levels.

Processing

Configurable and scalable task execution engine.
Extensible reconstruction and image processing pipelines.
Easy integration of existing processing tools.
Execute tasks on the server, on a specific client, or with a cloud service.

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