Disease dMRI Collections
Curated disease-focused MRI datasets (structural & diffusion) for research, benchmarking, and education. Each release retains its original license, citation, and metadata. Please cite the source when using any dataset.
Included Releases
1) Alzheimer’s vs Bipolar vs Healthy Controls (ubc-ad_bd)
Structural & diffusion MRI with derived FA, TBSS, VBM and clinical CSVs.
Download (Linux/macOS)
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/data-hcp/disease/releases/tags/ubc-ad_bd | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url' | xargs -n1 -P4 curl -LO
Download (Windows PowerShell)
(Invoke-RestMethod "https://api.github.com/repos/data-hcp/disease/releases/tags/ubc-ad_bd").assets | ForEach-Object { Invoke-WebRequest $_.browser_download_url -OutFile (Split-Path $_.browser_download_url -Leaf) }
- Scope: AD, BD, and healthy controls (anonymized)
- Analyses: FSL (DTI/TBSS), SPM (VBM); registration to MNI
- License: CC BY 4.0
- Citation/DOI: Besga, Graña, Chyzhyk (2020). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3935636
- Use cases: AD vs BD discrimination, biomarker correlation, CAD modeling
2) High-Quality DWI of Parkinson’s Disease (liege-pd)
Cross-sectional PD dataset with 120 dirs, b=1000/2500, 2.4 mm³ voxels; matched controls.
Download (Linux/macOS)
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/data-hcp/disease/releases/tags/liege-pd | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url' | xargs -n1 -P4 curl -LO
Download (Windows PowerShell)
(Invoke-RestMethod "https://api.github.com/repos/data-hcp/disease/releases/tags/liege-pd").assets | ForEach-Object { Invoke-WebRequest $_.browser_download_url -OutFile (Split-Path $_.browser_download_url -Leaf) }
- N: 27 PD, 26 controls
- Sequence: Twice-refocused spin-echo
- License: CC BY-SA
- Source: NITRC “parktdi” (linked in release)
- Use cases: PD microstructure, group comparisons, denoising/EDDY benchmarks
3) Inter-Site Reproducibility in Small Vessel Disease (isd-svd)
CADASIL patients scanned on Prisma & Skyra within 24 hours, BIDS-structured.
Download (Linux/macOS)
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/data-hcp/disease/releases/tags/isd-svd | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url' | xargs -n1 -P4 curl -LO
Download (Windows PowerShell)
(Invoke-RestMethod "https://api.github.com/repos/data-hcp/disease/releases/tags/isd-svd").assets | ForEach-Object { Invoke-WebRequest $_.browser_download_url -OutFile (Split-Path $_.browser_download_url -Leaf) }
- N: 10 CADASIL patients
- Preproc: dwidenoise, mrdegibbs, TOPUP, EDDY
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0
- Citation/DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16925507
- Paper: Neurology (2020)
- Use cases: Harmonization (ComBat/LongCombat), artifact studies, SVD biomarkers
Licensing & Citation
- ubc-ad_bd: CC BY 4.0 — cite Besga et al., Zenodo (2020)
- liege-pd: CC BY-SA — cite NITRC source
- isd-svd: CC BY-NC 4.0 — cite Dewenter et al., Zenodo (2020) & Neurology (2020)
You must follow dataset licenses and cite the original investigators.
Notes
- Some releases include preprocessed and raw data
- CC BY-NC datasets may impose non-commercial restrictions
- Defacing/anonymization methods differ—check for your application