An open access thyroid ultrasound image database

Lina Pedraza; Carlos Vargas; Fabián Narváez; Oscar Durán; Emma Muñoz; Eduardo Romero

doi:10.1117/12.2073532

28 January 2015 An open access thyroid ultrasound image database

Lina Pedraza, Carlos Vargas, Fabián Narváez, Oscar Durán, Emma Muñoz, Eduardo Romero

Proceedings Volume 9287, 10th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis; 92870W (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2073532
Event: Tenth International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 2014, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Abstract

Computer aided diagnosis systems (CAD) have been developed to assist radiologists in the detection and diagnosis of abnormalities and a large number of pattern recognition techniques have been proposed to obtain a second opinion. Most of these strategies have been evaluated using different datasets making their performance incomparable. In this work, an open access database of thyroid ultrasound images is presented. The dataset consists of a set of B-mode Ultrasound images, including a complete annotation and diagnostic description of suspicious thyroid lesions by expert radiologists. Several types of lesions as thyroiditis, cystic nodules, adenomas and thyroid cancers were included while an accurate lesion delineation is provided in XML format. The diagnostic description of malignant lesions was confirmed by biopsy. The proposed new database is expected to be a resource for the community to assess different CAD systems.

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Lina Pedraza, Carlos Vargas, Fabián Narváez, Oscar Durán, Emma Muñoz, and Eduardo Romero "An open access thyroid ultrasound image database", Proc. SPIE 9287, 10th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 92870W (28 January 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2073532

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