Summary
This data set was provided in association with a challenge competition and related conference session conducted at the AAPM 2017 Annual Meeting. Numerous auto-segmentation methods exist for Organs at Risk in radiotherapy. The overall objective of this auto-segmentation grand challenge is to provide a platform for comparison of various auto-segmentation algorithms when they are used to delineate organs at risk (OARs) from CT images for thoracic patients in radiation treatment planning. The results will provide an indication of the performances achieved by various auto-segmentation algorithms and can be used to guide the selection of these algorithms for clinic use if desirable.To participate in the challenge please visit www.autocontouringchallenge.org to sign up!
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Detailed Description
Collection Statistics | Updated 2017/05/17 |
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Modalities | CT, RT |
Number of Patients | 36 |
Number of Studies | 36 |
Number of Series | 68 |
Number of Images | 5894 |
| Image Size (MB) | 2952 |
Supporting Documentation and Metadata
To participate in the challenge please sign up at www.autocontouringchallenge.org.
Contouring Guidelines from the challenge
Esophagus
Standard name: Esophagus
RTOG Atlas description: The esophagus should be contoured from the beginning at the level just below the cricoid to its entrance to the stomach at GE junction. The esophagus will be contoured using mediastinal window/level on CT to correspond to the mucosal, submucosa, and all muscular layers out to the fatty adventitia.
Additional notes: The superior-most slice of the esophagus is the slice below the first slice where the lamina of the cricoid cartilage is visible (+/- 1 slice). The inferior-most slice of the esophagus is the first slice (+/- 1 slice) where the esophagus and stomach are joined, and at least 10 square cm of stomach cross section is visible.
Heart
Standard name: Heart
RTOG Atlas description: The heart will be contoured along with the pericardial sac. The superior aspect (or base) will begin at the level of the inferior aspect of the pulmonary artery passing the midline and extend inferiorly to the apex of the heart.
Additional notes: Inferior vena cava is excluded or partly excluded starting at slice where at least half of the circumference is separated from the right atrium.
Lungs
Standard names: Lung_L, Lung_R
RTOG Atlas description: Both lungs should be contoured using pulmonary windows. The right and left lungs can be contoured separately, but they should be considered as one structure for lung dosimetry. All inflated and collapsed, fibrotic and emphysematic lungs should be contoured, small vessels extending beyond the hilar regions should be included; however, pre GTV, hilars and trachea/main bronchus should not be included in this structure.
Additional notes: Tumor is excluded in most data, but size and extent of excluded region are not guaranteed. Hilar airways and vessels greater than 5 mm (+/- 2 mm) diameter are excluded. Main bronchi are always excluded, secondary bronchi may be included or excluded. Small vessels near hilum are not guaranteed to be excluded. Collapsed lung may be excluded in some scans. Regions of tumor or collapsed lung that are excluded from training and test data will be masked out during evaluation, such that scores are affected by segmentation choices in those regions.
Spinal cord
Standard name: SpinalCord
RTOG Atlas description: The spinal cord will be contoured based on the bony limits of the spinal canal. The spinal cord should be contoured starting at the level just below cricoid (base of skull for apex tumors) and continuing on every CT slice to the bottom of L2. Neuroformanines should not be included.
Additional notes: Spinal cord may be contoured beyond cricoid superiorly, and beyond L2 inferiorly. Contouring to base of skull is not guaranteed for apical tumors.
Citations & Data Usage Policy
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Please be sure to include the following citations in your work if you use this data set:
Dataset Citation
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. (paper)
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Version 1 (Current): Updated 2017/05/17
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