Summary

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 four organs at risk (OARs) from CT images for patients in radiation treatment planning with the same cancer or different types, sizes and locations in chest. 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.

Learning objectives:

  1. Principles, methods and state-of-the-art in auto-contouring
  2. Relative performance of automatic and manual contouring, per method/solution and per organ-at-risk
  3. Evaluation methods for automatic segmentation

This data set was provided to TCIA for use in the Challenge.

Please find the details of this challenge at www.autocontouringchallenge.org

 

Data Access

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Detailed Description

Collection Statistics

Updated 2017/05/17

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

Supporting documentation is coming

Citations & Data Usage Policy 

This collection is freely available to browse, download, and use for commercial, scientific and educational purposes as outlined in the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.  See TCIA's Data Usage Policies and Restrictions for additional details. Questions may be directed to help@cancerimagingarchive.net.

Please be sure to include the following citations in your work if you use this data set:

 

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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