LNDb – Lung Nodule Database

License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Citation

Paper 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}
}

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.

Challenge homepage: https://lndb.grand-challenge.org/Home/

Number of CT volumes: 294

Contrast: -

CT body coverage: Chest

Does the dataset include any ground truth annotations?: Yes

Original GT annotation targets: Pulmonary nodules

Number of annotated CT volumes: -

Annotator: Human

Acquisition centers: Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João in Porto, Portugal.

Pathology/Disease: Pulmonary nodules for lung cancer screening and management

Original dataset download link: https://zenodo.org/records/7153205#.Yz_oVHbMJPZ

Original dataset format: mhd/.raw

Note

In accordance with the license, CADS does not redistribute LNDb images. Please download the original images directly from the provided Zenodo link above.