ENBIT is a group of academics across Europe with contribution from Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
The primary goal of ENBIT is sharing. Sharing of data under a secured access using BITR but also sharing of ideas, protocols and tools.
Advanced brain imaging techqniues comes with the burden of heavy data processing and we aim at providing tools dedicated to brain tumour imaging for such data (fMRI, DTI, Quantitative imaging, etc)
Want to access our data? simply register on the Brain Imaging of Tumour Repository (BITR) registrration page, wait for your confirmation email and start downloading!
Want to share data? register and become a data depositor, giving you premium access to all the data.
To gain access to the repository, you have to register giving your name, full professional address and email. The management team will verify you are a real person belonging to academia or industry, and if so access will be granted.
As user, you have access to all data that are older than a year. Note that depending on datasets, restriction on commercial use may also apply (this is set in your profile at registration). As data depositor, you have access to all of the data. More infrmation can be found here.
Data are stored on secured servers hidden behind firewalls, making it difficult to access during an external cyber-attack. From the ENBIT website front end, every data access is logged and monitored.
Imaging and metadata data are fully anonymized using dedicated software which removes all identifiable tags from images (no personal information). In addition, defacing algorithms that remove face, ear and dental information are used on MRI data so no one can be identified.
Participants’ metadata only contain clinical scores and/or surgical outcomes. Metadata may contain age but not date of birth, country of origin or residence but not address or postcode.
The ENBIT repository hosts data organized using the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS). While currently using the standard BIDS validator, we will have our own validator once our meta-standards will be developped.
One endeavour of ENBIT is developping metadata for brain tumour data sharing as a BIDS extension - you can read more about it here
ENBIT is interested in developping brain imaging of tumours, and along with our data repository, we have a series of tools that can be used to analyze these images - these can be found via the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC).
Exemples of brain images produced by ENBIT contributors
Reporting on ENBIT activities
The European Network in Brain Imaging of Tumour
(ENBIT) is primarily an open data-sharing infrastructure to share data collected by the different partners and also a network to exchange tools and ideas.
Seed funding from INCF
What are the rules governing ENBIT, for data depositors and users.
How do we ask people to share their data? this is all fee and fully informed.
We are interested in providing useful metadata using BIDS
The virtual machine hosting enbit.ac.uk was attacked and we are in the process of rebuilding it. This means 1) data are intact because hosted securely and separately, but 2) the repository access is unavailable for now
GLIMR is a COST action sponsored group (up to 2023) dedicated in improving glioma imaging - ENBIT members are joining forces, in parrticular via working group 2 dedicated to data sharing.
ENBIT is hosted at the University of Edinburgh, UK
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging
ENetBrainImgTumours[at]gmail.com
