A labeled clinical-MRI dataset of Nigerian brains
Eberechi Wogu, Patrick Filima, Bradley Caron, Daniel Levitas, Peer Herholz, Soichi Hayashi, Mohammed Mehboob, Catherine Leal, George Ogoh, Simisola Akintoye, Tawe Godwin, Damian Eke, Franco Pestilli · FENS Forum 2024
There is currently a paucity of neuroimaging data from the African continent, limiting the diversity of data from a significant proportion of the global population. This in turn diminishes global health research and innovation. To address this issue, we present and describe the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) dataset from individuals in the African nation of Nigeria. This dataset contains pseudonymized structural MRI (T1w, T2w, FLAIR) data of clinical quality, with 33 images from healthy control subjects, 32 images from individuals diagnosed with age-related dementia and 21 from individ