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SAROS: A dataset for whole-body region and organ segmentation in CT imaging.

Sven Koitka, Giulia Baldini, Lennard Kroll, Natalie van Landeghem, Olivia B Pollok, Johannes Haubold, Obioma Pelka, Moon Kim, Jens Kleesiek, Felix Nensa and 1 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Sven Koitka *Institute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9704-1180
Giulia Baldini *Institute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5929-0271
Lennard KrollInstitute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Natalie van LandeghemInstitute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Olivia B PollokInstitute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Johannes HauboldInstitute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Obioma PelkaInstitute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Moon KimInstitute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Jens KleesiekInstitute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8686-0682
Felix NensaInstitute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
René HoschInstitute of Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany. rene.hosch@uk-essen.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1760-2342

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Sparsely Annotated Region and Organ Segmentation (SAROS) dataset was created using data from The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) to provide a large open-access CT dataset with high-quality annotations of body landmarks. In-house segmentation models were employed to generate annotation proposals on randomly selected cases from TCIA. The dataset includes 13 semantic body region labels (abdominal/thoracic cavity, bones, brain, breast implant, mediastinum, muscle, parotid/submandibular/thyroid glands, pericardium, spinal cord, subcutaneous tissue) and six body part labels (left/right arm/leg, head, torso). Case selection was based on the DICOM series description, gender, and imaging protocol, resulting in 882 patients (438 female) for a total of 900 CTs. Manual review and correction of proposals were conducted in a continuous quality control cycle. Only every fifth axial slice was annotated, yielding 20150 annotated slices from 28 data collections. For the reproducibility on downstream tasks, five cross-validation folds and a test set were pre-defined. The SAROS dataset serves as an open-access resource for training and evaluating novel segmentation models, covering various scanner vendors and diseases.

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Tomography, X-Ray ComputedWhole Body ImagingFemaleHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMale

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PMID38729970
PMCPMC11087485

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