Summary
The dataset contains a collection of over 170,000 de-identified, expert-annotated cells from the bone marrow smears of 945 patients stained using the May-Grünwald-Giemsa/Pappenheim stain. The diagnosis distribution in the cohort included a variety of hematological diseases reflective of the sample entry of a large laboratory specialized in leukemia diagnostics. Image acquisition was performed using a brightfield microscope with 40x magnification and oil immersion.
Large datasets with a high quality of both data acquisition and annotation are key prerequisites to develop data-driven, computational methods in diagnostic medicine. In the case of bone marrow morphology, a key diagnostic method for a broad range of hematologic diseases, only few datasets are publicly available so far, which are orders of magnitude smaller than the one presented here. Inclusion of our dataset into TCIA provides both medical researchers and bioinformaticians with a public resource for education and algorithm improvement.
All samples were processed in the Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), scanned using equipment developed at Fraunhofer IIS and post-processed using software developed at Helmholtz Munich.
Acknowledgements
- Christian Matek and Carsten Marr acknowledge support from the German National Research foundation (DFG) through grant SFB 1243.
- Carsten Marr has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement number 866411).
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Detailed Description
Image Statistics | Pathology Image Statistics |
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Modalities | Pathology |
Number of Patients | 945 |
Number of Images | 171,375 |
Images Size (GB) | 6.8 |
Abbreviations:
ABE | Abnormal eosinophil |
ART | Artefact |
BAS | Basophil |
BLA | Blast |
EBO | Erythroblast |
EOS | Eosinophil |
FGC | Faggott cell |
HAC | Hairy cell |
KSC | Smudge cell |
LYI | Immature lymphocyte |
LYT | Lymphocyte |
MMZ | Metamyelocyte |
MON | Monocyte |
MYB | Myelocyte |
NGB | Band neutrophil |
NGS | Segmented neutrophil |
NIF | Not identifiable |
OTH | Other cell |
PEB | Proerythroblast |
PLM | Plasma cell |
PMO | Promyelocyte |
Citations & Data Usage Policy
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Data Citation
Matek, C., Krappe, S., Münzenmayer, C., Haferlach, T., & Marr, C. (2021). An Expert-Annotated Dataset of Bone Marrow Cytology in Hematologic Malignancies [Data set]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/TCIA.AXH3-T579
Publication Citation
Matek, C., Krappe, S., Münzenmayer, C., Haferlach, T., and Marr, C. (2021). Highly accurate differentiation of bone marrow cell morphologies using deep neural networks on a large image dataset. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2020010568
TCIA Citation
Clark K, Vendt B, Smith K, Freymann J, Kirby J, Koppel P, Moore S, Phillips S, Maffitt D, Pringle M, Tarbox L, Prior F. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository, Journal of Digital Imaging, Volume 26, Number 6, December, 2013, pp 1045-1057. DOI: 10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7
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