The following paper published in Medical Physics is effectively the user's manual for the database and should be cited as follows in all manuscripts that make use of the database:
Armato SG III, McLennan G, Bidaut L, McNitt-Gray MF, Meyer CR, Reeves AP, Zhao B, Aberle DR, Henschke CI, Hoffman EA, Kazerooni EA, MacMahon H, van Beek EJR, Yankelevitz D, et al.: The Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) and Image Database Resource Initiative (IDRI): A completed reference database of lung nodules on CT scans. Medical Physics, 38: 915--931, 2011.
In addition to following The Cancer Imaging Archive's (TCIA’s) Citation Guidelines, if you use this data in your research, please be sure to include the following attribution in any publications or grant applications along with references to appropriate LIDC publications. A listing of these publications can be found on TCIA's Related Publications page.
LIDC-IDRI Attribution:
The authors acknowledge the National Cancer Institute and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, and their critical role in the creation of the free publicly available LIDC/IDRI Database used in this study.
Additional information about using this data, as well as some collection metadata, can be obtained on the Lung Image Database Consortium research page.
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