The Lung Image Database Consortium image collection (LIDC-IDRI) consists of diagnostic and lung cancer screening thoracic CT scans with marked-up annotated lesions. It is a web-accessible international resource for development, training, and evaluation of computer-assisted diagnostic (CAD) methods for lung cancer detection and diagnosis. |
The following paper published in Medical Physics is effectively the authoritative user's manual for the database:
Armato SG III, McLennan G, Bidaut L, McNitt-Gray MF, Meyer CR, Reeves AP, Zhao B, Aberle DR, Henschke CI, Hoffman EA, Kazerooni EA, MacMahon H, van Beek EJR, Yankelevitz D, et al.: The Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) and Image Database Resource Initiative (IDRI): A completed reference database of lung nodules on CT scans. Medical Physics, 38: 915--931, 2011.
Important note: There was a "pilot release" of 399 cases of the LIDC CT data via the NCI CBIIT installation of NBIA. The LIDC-IDRI collection contained on The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is the complete data set of all 1,010 patients which includes all 399 pilot CT cases plus the additional 611 patient CTs and all 290 corresponding chest x-rays.
In addition to following TCIA's Citation Guidelines, if you use this data in your research please be sure to include the following attribution in any publications or grant applications along with references to appropriate LIDC publications. A listing of these publications can be found on TCIA's Related Publications page.
LIDC-IDRI Attribution:
The authors acknowledge the National Cancer Institute and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and their critical role in the creation of the free publicly available LIDC/IDRI Database used in this study.
Additional information about using this data as well as some collection meta data can be obtained on the Lung Image Database Consortium research page.
Collection Statistics |
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Modalities |
CT (computed tomography) |
Number of Patients |
1,010 |
Number of Studies |
1,308 |
Number of Series |
1,018 CT |
Number of Images |
244,527 |
You can view and download these images on the Cancer Imaging Archive by selecting the LIDC-IDRI collection. If you are unsure how to download this Collection view our quick guide on Searching by Collection or you can refer to our The Cancer Imaging Archive User's Guide for more detailed instructions on using the site.
Note: On 2012-03-21 the XML associated with patient LIDC-IDRI-0101 was updated with a corrected version of the file. The old version is still available via the wiki if needed for audit purposes.
This collection contains a great deal of supporting documentation that was generated by members of the LIDC. It can be found on the Lung Image Database Consortium research page.