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| license: cc-by-3.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - image-segmentation |
| tags: |
| - medical |
| - ct |
| - thoracic |
| - lung |
| - radiotherapy |
| - oar |
| - dicom |
| - rtstruct |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| --- |
| |
| # LCTSC — Lung CT Segmentation Challenge 2017 (AAPM) |
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| Mirror of the [TCIA LCTSC collection](https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collection/lctsc/) for the AAPM 2017 Thoracic Auto-segmentation Grand Challenge. 60 thoracic CT cases (CT volumes + DICOM RTSTRUCT contours) covering five organs at risk for radiation treatment planning. |
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| ## Classes (5 OARs) |
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| | Class | Notes | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | Esophagus | | |
| | Heart | | |
| | Left Lung | RTSTRUCT splits Lungs into L/R | |
| | Right Lung | | |
| | Spinal Cord | | |
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| ## Splits |
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| | Split | Cases | HF folder | |
| | --- | --- | --- | |
| | Training | 36 | `train/` | |
| | Off-site test | 12 | `test_offsite/` | |
| | Online (live) test | 12 | `test_online/` | |
| | **Total** | **60** | | |
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| Cases are stratified across three institutions (S1: MD Anderson, S2: MSKCC, S3: MAASTRO) — case IDs encode the institution: e.g., `LCTSC-Train-S2-005`. |
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| ## Data layout |
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| Each patient folder contains: |
| - one CT series (`<study_uid>/<series_uid>/*.dcm`, ~140 slices, 512×512, ~512 KB/slice) |
| - one DICOM RTSTRUCT (`<study_uid>/<small_uid>/1-1.dcm`, ~2 MB) with the five OAR contours |
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| ``` |
| train/LCTSC-Train-S1-001/<study>/<ct_series>/*.dcm |
| train/LCTSC-Train-S1-001/<study>/<rtstruct_series>/*.dcm |
| ``` |
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| ## License & citation |
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| Released under **CC BY 3.0** by TCIA. |
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| When using this data, cite the original publication and TCIA per [the LCTSC citation policy](https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collection/lctsc/): |
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| > Yang J, Veeraraghavan H, Armato SG III, et al. Autosegmentation for thoracic radiation treatment planning: A grand challenge at AAPM 2017. Med Phys. 2018;45(10):4568-4581. doi:10.1002/mp.13141 |
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| > Clark K, Vendt B, Smith K, et al. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository. J Digit Imaging. 2013;26(6):1045-1057. |
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| Original DOI: [10.7937/K9/TCIA.2017.3R3FVZ08](https://doi.org/10.7937/K9/TCIA.2017.3R3FVZ08). |
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