About the dataset

Primary description: Population health and epidemiology

The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) is a population-based cohort including adults from 22-90 years old with MR imaging collected from 2008-2012. Additional data collection includes demographics, health history, cognitive testing, and genotyping.
Study Study of Health in Pomerania
Study Website SHIP
Data Descriptor Paper https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A4805
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1109510
DUA https://transfer.ship-med.uni-greifswald.de/FAIRequest/data-use-intro?lang=en
Country/Region Germany
Disease Tag cardiovascular
Age (mean ± SD) 52.8 ± 13.8
Age Range 21-90
% Female 51.3
CUBIC Project /cbica/projects/Greifswald
PI for CUBIC Access Approval Christos Davatzikos
N Subjects 3312
N MR Sessions 3312
Diagnoses
AD
Value V01
CN 3311
DLMUSE (v1.0.7)
(3311/3311 complete)
/cbica/projects/Greifswald/Pipelines/SHIP_DLMUSE_2025/Results/DLMUSE_Volumes.csv
RAVENS (DRAMMS-1.4.1)
(3311/3311 complete)
/cbica/projects/Greifswald/Pipelines/SHIP_3D_2021/Protocols/RAVENS
Non-Imaging Data
/cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ClinicalDataConsolidation_201911/Data/External_Data/SHIP

Raw data downloaded from source.

/cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ClinicalDataConsolidation_201911/dictionaries/SHIP

Data dictionary of raw data downloaded from source.

/cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ISTAGING_Data_Consolidation_2020/v2.0/istaging.csv

Data consolidated and harmonized in 2020.

This study: subset with df[df.Study == 'SHIP']

README: /cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ISTAGING_Data_Consolidation_2020/v2.0/README.md

Release Notes: /cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ISTAGING_Data_Consolidation_2020/v2.0/Release_Notes.md

/cbica/home/harmang/for_others/final_combined_istaging_withMUSE.csv

Data consolidated and harmonized in 2026.

This study: subset with df[df.Study == 'SHIP']


Funding
The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) is part of the Community Medicine Research net (CMR) (http://www.medizin.uni-greifswald.de/icm) of the University Medicine Greifswald, which is supported by the German Federal State of Mecklenburg- West Pomerania. MRI scans in SHIP and SHIP-TREND have been supported by a joint grant from Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany and the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.