About the China Autism Brain Imaging Consortium (CABIC)
The China Autism Brain Imaging Consortium (CABIC) is a grassroots, multi-institutional initiative uniting researchers across China to advance understanding of the developing autistic brain. Emerging from collaborative groundwork among 15 contributing sites, CABIC harmonizes previously collected T1-weighted structural MRI datasets and phenotypic information from 2,656 participants — including 1,503 autistic children and 1,153 typically developing controls (TDCs) — spanning an age range from 1.0 to 12.9 years. This aggregated dataset was officially released in April 2025.
CABIC provides a nationally representative, large-scale neuroimaging resource for investigating atypical developmental trajectories of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and cross-cultural differences in neurodevelopment. The consortium aims to promote open collaboration, methodological harmonization, and precision-oriented research on ASD in non-Western populations.

Data Access and Membership
All datasets from CABIC will be publicly available through China’s National Scientific Data Sharing Platform (https://www.scidb.cn/en).
At the current stage, access is restricted to registered CABIC researchers and collaborators.
However, any institution or researcher may obtain full access to the shared datasets across all sites by applying for CABIC membership.
CABIC actively encourages broader participation and welcomes additional institutions and clinical centers to join this collaborative network.
By fostering open data sharing and methodological standardization, CABIC seeks to build a more comprehensive and inclusive foundation for autism neuroimaging research in China and beyond.
For detailed membership procedures, please refer to the Guidelines for Consortium and Data Sharing and contact the CABIC Committee via cabic.committee@gmail.com .