| # LNDb – Lung Nodule Database |
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| ## License |
| **CC BY-NC-ND 4.0** |
| [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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| ## Citation |
| Paper BibTeX: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @article{pedrosa2021lndb, |
| title={LNDb challenge on automatic lung cancer patient management}, |
| author={Pedrosa, Jo{\~a}o and Aresta, Guilherme and Ferreira, Carlos and Atwal, Gurraj and Phoulady, Hady Ahmady and Chen, Xiaoyu and Chen, Rongzhen and Li, Jiaoliang and Wang, Liansheng and Galdran, Adrian and others}, |
| journal={Medical image analysis}, |
| volume={70}, |
| pages={102027}, |
| year={2021}, |
| publisher={Elsevier} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Dataset description |
| The Lung Nodule Database (LNDb) was developed as an external dataset to complement LIDC-IDRI, enabling external and comparable validation of computer-aided diagnosis systems. It contains 294 retrospectively collected CT scans from CHUSJ in Porto, Portugal, acquired between 2016 and 2018 under ethical approval and anonymised for research use. |
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| **Challenge homepage**: https://lndb.grand-challenge.org/Home/ |
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| **Number of CT volumes**: 294 |
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| **Contrast**: - |
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| **CT body coverage**: Chest |
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| **Does the dataset include any ground truth annotations?**: Yes |
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| **Original GT annotation targets**: Pulmonary nodules |
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| **Number of annotated CT volumes**: - |
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| **Annotator**: Human |
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| **Acquisition centers**: Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João in Porto, Portugal. |
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| **Pathology/Disease**: Pulmonary nodules for lung cancer screening and management |
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| **Original dataset download link**: https://zenodo.org/records/7153205#.Yz_oVHbMJPZ |
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| **Original dataset format**: mhd/.raw |
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| ## Note |
| In accordance with the license, CADS does **not** redistribute LNDb images. Please download the original images directly from the provided Zenodo link above. |
