Hi Sindre

There is no doubt that you should publish, of course giving proper accreditation of the work of others. The fact that you have found a gap in the already published work of others is a good thing to identify and explain for all to see.

I do not work in the medical field, but I do review for conferences and journals, and I strongly believe that data sets should be re-used. There are often many different ways to analyse the same data, since different people look at the same data with a different agenda, meaning not everyone can find out everything useful about a data set on first use. Data, especially big data, is a valuable resource for research. It would be a great waste to use it only once, then discard it. In any event, data can often be re-used by researchers from a different discipline, who are asking completely different questions of the same data.

Even where the same data is used by the same research discipline, when work is carried out on the same data, this can provide corroboration on the results achieved.

In your case, with so little research in the area, clearly there is scope for far more research to be done. Since data can often be so difficult to come across, I certainly believe that if it can be re-used, it should.

Hope that helps.

Regards

Bob

Bob Duncan: Im now inspired to do a really good work on this.

Ajeet Mandal: Im a big fan of collecting data-sets related to my work, I found one new here which is amazing! Thank you.