Health IT


NIH Clinical Center Releases CT Image Dataset
DeepLesion, a large-scale dataset of CT images compiled by the U.S. National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, has been made publicly available to help the scientific community improve detection accuracy of lesions. DeepLesion includes a dataset with 32,735 lesions in 32,120 CT slices from 10,594 studies of 4,427 unique anonymized patients whose CT images were sent to radiologists at the NIH Clinical Center for interpretation. More...28 Aug 2018




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