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AOMIC-PIOP2

Amsterdam Open MRI Collection, Population Imaging of Psychology 2 study

Brain MRI of healthy university students with psychometric scores, collected to study individual differences in brain structure and function. 226 people aged 18 to 25, each with structural, diffusion, fieldmap, resting-state and three task fMRI runs, in BIDS under CC0.

Overview

PIOP2 is one of three studies in the Amsterdam Open MRI Collection (AOMIC), a set of 3T brain MRI datasets from the University of Amsterdam meant for research on individual differences in brain structure and function. "PIOP" stands for Population Imaging of Psychology. The study pairs multimodal MRI with demographics and psychometric scores of university students. It has been on OpenNeuro as ds002790 under a CC0 waiver since 2020 and is described in a 2021 Scientific Data paper together with its sister studies PIOP1 and ID1000. PIOP1 and PIOP2 follow nearly the same protocol, so the authors suggest using them as separate training and test sets.

Composition

The release holds 226 of 242 scanned students from the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, aged 18 to 25 (129 female, 96 male, 1 without sex). All 226 have a T1-weighted scan, a diffusion scan, a phase-difference fieldmap and at least one functional run. The functional part covers resting state and three tasks: working memory, stop signal and emotion matching. Respiratory and cardiac traces accompany most runs. The participants table lists BMI, handedness, education type, Raven matrices score and NEO-FFI personality scores.

Acquisition

Data were collected between March and July 2017 on a single Philips 3T scanner after its upgrade to the Achieva dStream generation, with a 32-channel head coil. All functional runs, including resting state, use sequential gradient-echo EPI without multiband, and the functional slice stack was tilted to keep the eyes out of the field of view. Anatomical scans and fieldmap images were defaced with pydeface. The BIDS release ships derivatives from Fmriprep, Freesurfer, MRIQC, preprocessed diffusion data, voxel-based morphometry and physiology-based noise regressors.

Annotations

There are no manual image annotations. Derivatives include automated tissue segmentations and cortical parcellations from Freesurfer and Fmriprep.

Known limitations

  • Single site and scanner.
  • Only healthy students in a narrow age range, with no clinical groups.
  • The task set differs from PIOP1: the stop-signal task is unique to PIOP2, and several PIOP1 tasks are missing.
  • Ages are rounded to the nearest quarter year for privacy.

Cohort

Aggregate numbers from the sources below. Bars are relative to the 226 subjects.

Contrast / sequence

Groups can overlap

  • T1-weighted 226 100%
  • Diffusion-weighted 226 100%
  • BOLD fMRI 226 100%

From BIDS file tree of ds002790 snapshot 2.0.0 (CC0), raw NIfTI files under sub-*/ counted per suffix

Age

mean 22 ± 1.8, median 22, range 18.3 to 25.8

0
50
100
150
195
10-1920-29

From participants.tsv of ds002790 snapshot 2.0.0 (CC0), counted per row; ages from age, sex from sex; Table 2 in Snoek et al. 2021, The Amsterdam Open MRI Collection, Scientific Data

Age by sex

Reported cross table. Missing cells were not published (fewer than 10 or not reported).

Female Male
  • 108
    20-29
    87
  • 20
    10-19
    n/a

From participants.tsv of ds002790 snapshot 2.0.0 (CC0), counted per row; ages from age, sex from sex

Contrast combinations

How many subjects have exactly each set of contrasts.

T1wdwiboldSubjects with exactly this set
226

From BIDS file tree of ds002790 snapshot 2.0.0 (CC0), raw NIfTI files under sub-*/ counted per suffix

License and access

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Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal

Public domain dedication. Do anything with the data, including commercial use, without asking and without having to give credit.

dataset_description.json of snapshot 2.0.0 states "License" CC0.

Original license text Version read: 1.0 Checked 2026-10-07

What you can do

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What you can share

  • Yes
  • Yes
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What you must do

  • No
  • Share alike No
  • No
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  • Manuscript review No
  • Release code No
  • Return results No
  • Delete after use No

Limits

  • No
  • Location limits No

Citation

Snoek L, van der Miesen MM, Beemsterboer T, van der Leij A, Eigenhuis A, Scholte HS. The Amsterdam Open MRI Collection, a set of multimodal MRI datasets for individual difference analyses. Scientific Data 8, 85 (2021). doi:10.1038/s41597-021-00870-6

Sources

Every number on this page comes from one of these documents. Each chart names the table or page it is taken from. The raw numbers are in stats.csv.