Two public chest X-ray datasets for computer-aided screening of pulmonary diseases

Stefan Jaeger; Sema Candemir; Sameer Antani; Yì-Xiáng J Wáng; Pu-Xuan Lu; George Thoma

doi:10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2014.11.20

Two public chest X-ray datasets for computer-aided screening of pulmonary diseases

Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2014 Dec;4(6):475-7. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2014.11.20.

Authors

Stefan Jaeger¹, Sema Candemir¹, Sameer Antani¹, Yì-Xiáng J Wáng¹, Pu-Xuan Lu¹, George Thoma¹

Affiliation

¹ 1 Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA ; 2 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, SAR, China ; 3 Department of Radiology, The Shenzhen No. 3 People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen 518020, China.

PMID: 25525580
PMCID: PMC4256233
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2014.11.20

Abstract

The U.S. National Library of Medicine has made two datasets of postero-anterior (PA) chest radiographs available to foster research in computer-aided diagnosis of pulmonary diseases with a special focus on pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). The radiographs were acquired from the Department of Health and Human Services, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA and Shenzhen No. 3 People's Hospital in China. Both datasets contain normal and abnormal chest X-rays with manifestations of TB and include associated radiologist readings.

Keywords: Tuberculosis (TB); automatic screening; chest X-rays; computer-aided diagnosis; medical imaging.