Summary

 

SPIE, along with the support of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), will conduct a “Grand Challenge” on quantitative image analysis methods for the diagnostic classification of clinically significant prostate lesions.  As part of the 2017 SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium, the PROSTATEx Challenge will provide a unique opportunity for participants to compare their algorithms with those of others from academia, industry, and government in a structured, direct way using the same data sets.  For more details, go to http://www.spie.org/PROSTATEx/.  To register for the challenge visit http://spiechallenges.cloudapp.net/

  • Release date of training set cases with truth (tentative):  October 17, 2016
  • Release date of test set cases without truth:  December 5, 2016
  • Submission date for participants’ test set classification output:  January 6, 2017
  • Challenge results released to participants:  January 13, 2017
  • SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium:  February 13-16, 2017

Data Access

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Images (DICOM, __ GB) 

ProstateXKtrans-train

(zip file of mhd and zraw)

ProstateX-Findings-train (csv)
ProstateX-Images-train (csv)
ProstateX-screenshots-train (zip)

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Detailed Description

Collection Statistics

 

Modalities

CT

MR

Clinical Data

Image Analyses (segmentations)

Number of Patients

347

Number of Studies

348

Number of Series

~4 sets of MRI scan data per case

Number of Images

 

Images Size (GB) 

For more information:

The database for this challenge will contain a total of approximately 350 MRI cases, each from a single examination from a distinct patient.  Approximately 60% of the cases will serve as the training set, and the remaining 40% of the cases will serve as the test set, with each case consisting of four sets of MRI scan data: two sets of T2-weighted images (transaxial and sagittal; DICOM format), Ktrans images (computed from dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) images; mhd format), and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) images (computed from diffusion-weighted (DWI) imaging; DICOM format).  Each case will contain at least one prostate lesion with biopsy-proven malignancy status or with imaging findings with sufficiently low suspicion of clinical significance.  Lesion location (along with a reference thumbnail image of the lesion) will be provided as this is not a detection task.  Gleason scores and PI-RADS scores will not be released with this challenge, since they will become the focus of a follow-up challenge to be held in conjunction with the 2017 AAPM Annual Meeting in July 2017.

Nodule locations and diagnoses

  • CalibrationSet_NoduleData.xlsx - Nodule locations and diagnoses
  • TestSet_NoduleData.xlsx - Nodule locations; diagnoses to be added after manuscript publication

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:

Geert Litjens, Oscar Debats, Jelle Barentsz, Nico Karssemeijer, and Henkjan Huisman. ProstateX Challenge data. <doi coming soon>

<coming soon> 

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 2016/10/06

Data TypeDownload all or Query/Filter
Images (DICOM,  ___  GB) 
Nodule Locations/Diagnoses - Calibration Set (XLS)
Nodule Locations - Test Set (XLS)