Spine Generic Public Database (Multi-Subject)

About this dataset

This dataset was acquired using the spine-generic protocol on multiple subjects, multiple sites and multiple MRI vendors and models. The list of subjects is available in participants.tsv.

This dataset follows the BIDS convention. The contributors have the necessary ethics & permissions to share the data publicly.

The dataset does not include any identifiable personal health information, including names, zip codes, dates of birth, facial features on structural scans.

The entire dataset is about 10GB.

Download

We are using a tool to manage large datasets called git-annex. To download this dataset, you need to have git installed, and also install git-annex at version 8. Then run:

git clone https://github.com/spine-generic/data-multi-subject && \
cd data-multi-subject && \
git annex init && \
git annex get

You may substitute git annex get with more specific commands if you are only interested in certain subjects. For example:

git annex get sub-nwu01/ sub-nwu03/ sub-nwu04/ sub-oxfordFmrib04/ sub-tokyoSkyra*/

Analysis

The instructions to process this dataset are available in the spine-generic documentation.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to this dataset please see the wiki. Thank you for your contribution 🎉