Terms Of Use

1. Terms

By accessing this site, you agree to iBEAT V2.0 Terms and Conditions of Use, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with them or any applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you must not access this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright law.

You need to be registered in order to access the processing tool to send your data. During the registration process you can authorize the incorporation of your image data to iBEAT V2.0's image database. This will help to improve iBEAT V2.0's performance and increase the system's accuracy.

2. Use License

1. You agree to use the services only for purposes that are permitted by these Terms and any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions.
2. In order to access iBEAT V2.0 services, you may be required to provide information about yourself as part of the registration process for the service. You agree that any registration information you give will be accurate, correct and up to date.
3. You agree not to attempt to access iBEAT V2.0 services by any means other than through the interface that is provided in iBEAT's site. Also, you agree that you will not attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained in this site.
4. You must have the right to use the MRI data submitted to iBEAT V2.0 system (patient consent if applicable).
5. You are responsible to anonymize the data submitted to iBEAT V2.0, no personal name or any other information able to identify the person has to be included in the file names or their content.
6. You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts iBEAT V2.0 services.
7. You may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell iBEAT V2.0 services for any purpose.
8. You undertake to use iBEAT V2.0 on your own and entire liability.
9. You expressly agree that in no case shall the iBEAT V2.0 owners be declared liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages suffered by you as a result of the use of iBEAT V2.0, as well as for any difficulty experienced during its use or for it being impossible to use.
10. You are responsible for ensuring that the technical characteristics and functions of iBEAT V2.0 fulfill to your needs.
11. You are completely responsible for the results that you may obtain while using the iBEAT V2.0 services.
12. You agree that the name of your organization appears on the user list of the iBEAT V2.0.
13. You agree that any publication based on the results generated by iBEAT V2.0 should inform iBEAT development team and make acknowledgment that “The structural MR images were processed by iBEAT V2.0 (http://www.ibeat.cloud)”.
14. You agree that any publication based on the results generated by iBEAT V2.0 should cite the following papers: 
    L. Wang, Z. Wu, L. Chen, Y. Sun, W. Lin, G. Li , "iBEAT V2.0: a multisite-applicable, deep learning-based pipeline for infant cerebral cortical surface reconstruction," Nature Protocols, vol. 18, pp. 1488–1509, 2023.
    L. Wang, G. Li, F. Shi, X. Cao, C. Lian, D. Nie, et al., "Volume-based analysis of 6-month-old infant brain MRI for autism biomarker identification and early diagnosis," in International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2018, pp. 411-419.
    G. Li, J. Nie, L. Wang, F. Shi, J. H. Gilmore, W. Lin, et al., "Measuring the dynamic longitudinal cortex development in infants by reconstruction of temporally consistent cortical surfaces," Neuroimage, vol. 90, pp. 266-279, 2014.
    G. Li, L. Wang, F. Shi, J. Gilmore, W. Lin, D. Shen, "Construction of 4D high-definition cortical surface atlases of infants: Methods and applications," Medical Image Analysis, 25: 22-36, 2015.
    G. Li, L. Wang, P.-T. Yap, F. Wang, Z. Wu, Y. Meng, et al., "Computational neuroanatomy of baby brains: A review," NeuroImage, vol. 185, pp. 906-925, 2018.
15. You agree that processed results generated by iBEAT V2.0 can only be redistributed within the PI’s lab. If any request from the outside of the PI’s lab, the PI should first contact Dr. Li Wang (li_wang@med.unc.edu) and Dr. Gang Li (gang_li@med.unc.edu) for an approval. After the approval, the PI can only redistribute the processed results with acknowledgment and notification that the results were generated by iBEAT V2.0 and that any work based on the redistributed results should provide attribution to iBEAT V2.0 (Refer to the terms 13 and 14).

3. Provision Of Service

1. You acknowledge that the services provided in these site may change from time to time without prior notice.
2. You acknowledge that iBEAT V2.0 may stop permanently or temporarily providing the services or any features within without prior notice.
3. You acknowledge that there may be a limit on the number of transmissions you may send or receive through the services or on the amount of storage space.
4. You acknowledge that iBEAT V2.0 is a research prototype, and may therefore contain possible imperfections or errors for which the iBEAT V2.0 owners disclaim any liability.
5. You are advised to safeguard important data, to use caution and not to rely in any way on the correct functioning or performance of iBEAT V2.0 services.
6. You will make your best efforts to notify iBEAT V2.0 owners of any error or any other defect of the iBEAT V2.0 software which comes to its notice during the use. In that case, you will make your best efforts to notify to the iBEAT V2.0 contacts of the error and of the relevant correction.

4. Disclaimer

1. In no event shall iBEAT V2.0 or its representatives be liable for any damages resulting from the use or inability to use iBEAT V2.0 services. We make no warranty of the accuracy, reliability or fitness of the results for a particular purpose.
2. We do not offer any guarantee nor maintenance services to ensure that iBEAT V2.0 operates in good working order.
3. We are under no obligation: i) to provide assurance that any specific errors or discrepancies in the iBEAT V2.0 software will be corrected, ii) to provide you any technical support.

5. Terms Of Use Modifications

These Terms of Use may be revised and changed at any time without notice. By using this web site you agree to be bound by the current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use at that moment.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.

1. We will collect personal information in a digital database managed by iBEAT V2.0 administrators.
2. We will collect and use personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
3. We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes. Moreover, you can have access to your personal information and you can modify them by contacting iBEAT V2.0 administrators.
4. We will make readily available to our users information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
5. We will not sell, rent or otherwise share personal information with any third parties.