See also AdniReconNotes
Notes on how to download ADNI subject data and incorporate into our local copy, which is found here:
cd /autofs/cluster/con_002/users/ADNI
The main ADNI site is here: http://adni.loni.ucla.edu/
It is necessary to obtain an account with them in order to download data from the LONI site, which is here: https://ida.loni.ucla.edu/login.jsp?project=ADNI
T2/PD data
on the LONI ADNI page, click on Search->Advanced Search
- for 'month 0' scans, select both Screening and Baseline, or select one of the other months (for longitudinal scans)
- enter '*PD*T2*' in the MRI Series Description text box
- select PD and T2 weighting
- select Image count All
- click the SEARCH button
- now you will need to save the matches, to do this you will need to select each scan on every page of the results (there could be 20 or more pages of results, because the stupid interface seems to display only 20 at a time). click the 'Click here to select all series on the page' checkbox, but then uncheck duplicate scans for the same subject.
- before going to the next page, click Add to Collection. if this is the first page of the search, then create a new collection name (say, 'Month_6_PDT2'). Click Add.
- repeat the 'select all', 'unselect duplicates', 'add to collection' step for each page of the search results (warning! this is mind numbingly boring, tedious and time consuming!)
once the image collection is done, click on Download->Image Collections, in My Collections, find the collection you just created and select 'not downloaded'
- select the 'All' checkbox
- select the 'Nifti' radio button
- click DOWNLOAD, this brings-up a java box which then prompts for a directory. once that is selected, then it will being downloading, which could take days....
- now for the fun part...