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Summary

This dataset consists of 140 computed tomography (CT) scans, each with five organs labeled in 3D: lung, bones, liver, kidneys and bladder. The brain is also labeled on the minority of scans which show it.

Patients were included based on the presence of lesions in one or more of the labeled organs. Most of the images exhibit liver lesions, both benign and malignant. Some also exhibit metastatic disease in other organs such as bones and lungs.

The images come from a wide variety of sources, including abdominal and full-body; contrast and non-contrast; low-dose and high-dose CT scans. 131 images are dedicated CTs, the remaining 9 are the CT component taken from PET-CT exams. This makes the dataset ideal for training and evaluating organ segmentation algorithms, which ought to perform well in a wide variety of imaging conditions.

The dataset includes large and easily-located organs such as the lungs, as well as small and difficult ones like the bladder. We hope the dataset will enable widespread adoption of multi-class organ segmentation, as well as competitive benchmarking of algorithms for it.

The data are divided into a testing set of 21 CT scans, and a training set of the remaining 119. For the training set, the lungs and bones were automatically segmented by morphological image processing. For the testing set, the lungs and bones were segmented manually. All other organs were segmented manually in both the training and testing sets. Manual segmentations were done with ITK-SNAP (https://www.itksnap.org), starting with semi-automatic active contour segmentation followed by manual clean-up. The source code for the morphological algorithms is available at:
- https://github.com/bbrister/ctOrganSegmentation.git

Many images were borrowed from the Liver Tumor Segmentation (LiTS) challenge, which the organizers have generously allowed us to distribute. For more information, see the following website and paper:
- https://lits-challenge.com
- Arxiv [1901.04056] The Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS) (https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04056)

Acknowledgements

  • This work was supported in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1U01CA190214 and 1U01CA187947.

Data Access

Data are provided in NIfTI format via Box. 

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Data descriptionREADME.txt

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Detailed Description

Image Statistics


Modalities

NIfTI CT and segmentations

Number of Participants

140

Number of Studies

140

Number of Series

280

Number of Images

280

Images Size (GB)16.9 GB
  • CTs and segmentations are saved in Nifti-1 (.nii.gz) format. Each Nifti-1 file stores the entire CT volume in Hounsfield units. Segmentations are in patient-native space (no change in registration).
  • Note: several volumes appear to be left-right flipped relative to others. Please contact the authors or help@cancerimagingarchive.net if this causes confusion.
  • The source code for the morphological algorithm (bone and lung segmentation) is available here:  https://github.com/bbrister/ctOrganSegmentation.git
  • Please explore README.txt that is also bundled in the zip with the label files.

Citations & Data Usage Policy

Users of this data must abide by the TCIA Data Usage Policy and the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License under which it has been published. Attribution should include references to the following citations:

Data Citation

Blaine Rister, Kaushik Shivakumar, Tomomi Nobashi and Daniel L. Rubin. (2019) CT-ORG: CT volumes with multiple organ segmentations [Dataset] . DOI: 10.7937/tcia.2019.tt7f4v7o

Acknowledgement

  1. CT organ segmentation using GPU data augmentation, unsupervised labels and IOU loss. Blaine Rister, Darvin Yi, Kaushik Shivakumar, Tomomi Nobashi and Daniel L. Rubin. https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11226
  2. Arxiv [1901.04056] The Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS) https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04056

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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Version 1 (Current): Updated 2020/01/09

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