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license: apache-2.0
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## Dataset Introduction

This open-source release contains **B-mode ultrasound liver images** collected **exclusively at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University**

**Ethical Certification Date:** May 15, 2023  
**Certifying Institution:** The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

We provide the complete training & inference codebase for **HSQformer** (Hierarchical Sparse Query Transformer-assisted Ultrasound Screening).

> **GitHub:** [https://github.com/Asunatan/HSQformer](https://github.com/Asunatan/HSQformer)
## Citation
If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:
```bibtex
@article{lu2025ai,
  title={AI enhanced diagnostic accuracy and workload reduction in hepatocellular carcinoma screening},
  author={Lu, Rui-Fang and She, Chao-Yin and He, Dan-Ni and Cheng, Mei-Qing and Wang, Ying and Huang, Hui and Lin, Ya-Dan and Lv, Jia-Yi and Qin, Si and Liu, Ze-Zhi and others},
  journal={npj Digital Medicine},
  volume={8},
  number={1},
  pages={500},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}
@misc{she2025retrospectivesystematicstudyhierarchical,
      title={A Retrospective Systematic Study on Hierarchical Sparse Query Transformer-assisted Ultrasound Screening for Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma}, 
      author={Chaoyin She and Ruifang Lu and Danni He and Jiayi Lv and Yadan Lin and Meiqing Cheng and Hui Huang and Lida Chen and Wei Wang and Qinghua Huang},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.03772},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03772}, 
}
```