Coding for diagnosis

[htwangtw]

We forgot to decide how to code this
@clarkenj any ideas?

[clarkenj]

Ah yes! In terms of variables I feel EMCI, LMCI, MCI, AD, SZ, ADHD, BP, FTD etc. is probably cleaner, and then we have a little dictionary somewhere? Or do you think full labels is preferable?

This might be a bit complicated where they have an overarching diagnosis (dementia) and a sub-diagnosis (e.g. AD). My preference for those cases would be for our variables to output the sub-diagnoses only, and then any grouping etc can be done later. What do you think?

[htwangtw]

Sounds great!

I would imaging having a shared json file for the definition of the labels:

{"EMCI": "full name of the diagnosis. ", 
 "ADHD": "full name of the diagnosis. ",
...
}

And for each project where they can have their own coding, we can just write a dictionary to convert the two manually:
for example they have 0 for control, 1 for adhd
{0: "ADHD", 1: "HC"}

For grouping, would you prefer this to be done in the file also? or do you feel this is more project specific?

[clarkenj]

Perfect! I think grouping should be project specific.

[clarkenj]

I would perhaps go for CON over HC?

[htwangtw]

sure! if you can compile this json file together that would be great!

[clarkenj]

Sure thing!