Public Data

This page provides data sets that are publicly available for research use. It attempts to document, collect and/or reference various CFD and medical datasets, to facilitate research in medical and flow visualization. Most of the data sets can be easily loaded an viewed with the free visualization system OpenWalnut.

Data Formats

The data sets are provided in one of the formats listed in the following table. If you have problems converting data between some of the formats do not hesitate to ask us for help (for contact information see below).

Category Format Suffixes Additional Information
General data format VTK legacy .vtk
Medical data format DICOM .dcm
Standard MRT file format NIfTI .nii/.nii.gz NIfTI FAQ, data alignment, image dimensions, Tools
Standard EEG recording file format CNT .cnt
Standard EEG channel location file format ASA electrode or EETrak .elc
Fiber file format VTK legacy .fib Same as MedINRIA uses

Data Sets

Please see the corresponding README files and the Acknowledgement section below for the copyright and usage instructions for the different data sets.

For medical data sets the subject is indicated by two letters, e.g. xa and xw. These letters are only faintly related to the names of the subjects. Data sets in different categories can originate from the same subject.

Scalar Data

NameFileSizeMeta InformationComment
Walnut CT (complete)walnut.nii.gz65Mwalnut.README
Walnut CT (masked)walnut_masked.nii.gz17Mwalnut.README
Teapotteapot.nii.gz219Kteapot.README
Abdominal MRIabdominal_xw_.....nii.gz4Mabdominal_xw.READMEMedical
Knee MRIknee_xw_.....nii.gz11Mknee_xw.READMEMedical
Jaw CTjaw_xw_....nii.gz105Mjaw_xw.READMEMedical

Vector Data

NameFileSizeMeta InformationComment
Cuboid flowcuboid_velocity.vtk12Mcuboid.READMEFlow
cuboid_velocity.nii.gz12Mcuboid.READMEFlow
cuboid_velocity_2Dcut.vtk4.2Mcuboid.READMEFlow
cuboid_velocity_2Dcut_norm.vtk3Mcuboid.READMEFlow
Brain FMRIbrain_vector.nii.gz11Mbrain_vector.READMEGradient of FMRI

Tensor Data

NameFileSizeMeta InformationComment
2 point loaddoublePushPullStrain.vtk150KdoublePushPullStrain.READMEEngineering related
Brain DTIbrain_xa_DTI.vtk41Mbrain_xa.READMEMedical/Neuroscience

Acknowledgement

If you use this data in a publication, you must provide an acknowlegement. As the data comes from various sources, the acknowledgements differ for the different data sets. See the README file coming with each data set for the respective acknowledgement.

Disclaimer

The data sets are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The burden for determining accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability and fitness for or the appropriateness for use rests solely on the requestor. The requestor acknowledges and accepts the limitations of the Data, including the fact that the Data is dynamic and is in a constant state of maintenance, correction and update.

We tried to give credit to the people/organizations that originally provided the respective datasets. In case some references are wrong and should be adjusted, please do not hesitate to send an e-mail. Thanks!

Contact

If you have any questions please contact Alexander Wiebel. Contact information can be found on the following page:
http://research.awmw.org.