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CROWDS-CURE-2018

Crowds-Cure-2018 | Crowds Cure Cancer: Data collected at the RSNA 2018 annual meeting

DOI: 10.7937/TCIA.2019.yk0gm1eb | Data Citation Required | Analysis Result

Cancer Types Location Subjects Related Collections Size Supporting Data Updated
Bladder Endothelial Carcinoma, Colon adenocarcinoma, Glioblastoma Multiforme, Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Melanoma, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma, Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma Bladder, Brain, Colon, Head-Neck, Kidney, Lung, Pancreas, Skin, Uterine corpus 324 5.76MB Lesion measurements 2019/05/30

Summary

Description

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) has procured substantial troves of image data, which could serve as valuable training sets for improving machine learning algorithms. However, these datasets lack consistent lesion annotations. To address this issue, the Cancer Imaging Informatics Lab at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) formed a partnership with five groups funded by the National Cancer Institute’s Informatics Technology for Cancer Research program to develop a web-based crowdsourcing application for gathering lesion annotations, featured at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA).

Crowds Cure Cancer (https://www.crowds-cure.org) first exhibited at RSNA 2017 utilizing CT scans from 4 different TCIA collections. Participants were asked to make a uni-dimensional measurement of the largest lesion. There were no options to provide details regarding imaging quality (e.g., no IV contrast, motion artifact, etc.), lesion location (e.g., lung, liver, etc.) or lesion characteristics (e.g., ill-defined, ground glass, etc.), requiring additional post-collection image review.  The Crowds-Cure-2017 dataset can be found at DOI: 10.7937/K9/TCIA.2018.OW73VLO2.

For RSNA 2018, the application was re-designed to promote more comprehensive data collection and increased community participation. Participants were instructed to identify all metastatic disease and provide details regarding image quality, lesion location and characteristics. To provide additional incentives for participation, we improved the system by adding gamification features (e.g., reward badges), and created a leaderboard to display participant standings.  The amount of data being annotated was also significantly increased to include CT scans from 324 patients spanning 13 TCIA collections:  Anti-PD-1_Lung,  Anti-PD-1_MELANOMA, CPTAC-CCRCC, CPTAC-GBM, CPTAC-HNSCC, CPTAC-PDA, CPTAC-UCEC,  NSCLC Radiogenomics,  TCGA-BLCA,  TCGA-COAD,  TCGA-HNSC,  TCGA-LUSC,  TCGA-UCEC.  During RSNA 2018, 4756 bi-directional measurements were obtained compared to 2345 uni-dimensional measurements in 2017. Of the 4756 measurements, 65% of the lesions were annotated with location information. The data is being released in DICOM Structured Report and CSV formats for analysis by the community. The application is available on GitHub https://github.com/crowds-cure/cancer .

Data Access

Some data in this collection contains images that could potentially be used to reconstruct a human face. To safeguard the privacy of participants, users must sign and submit a TCIA Restricted License Agreement to help@cancerimagingarchive.net before accessing the data.

Version 1: Updated 2019/05/30

Title Data Type Format Access Points Subjects Studies Series Images License
Crowd measurements CSV CC BY 3.0
Structured reports SR DICOM and ZIP
Download requires NBIA Data Retriever
 CC BY 3.0

Collections Used In This Analysis Result

Title Data Type Format Access Points Subjects Studies Series Images License
Limited-access images used for annotation Includes restricted cases from cases from Anti-PD-1_MELANOMA , CPTAC-GBM , CPTAC-HNSCC , TCGA-HNSC DICOM TCIA Restricted
Publicly accessible images used for annotation Includes cases from Anti-PD-1_Lung , CPTAC-CCRCC , CPTAC-PDA , CPTAC-UCEC , NSCLC Radiogenomics , TCGA-BLCA , TCGA-COAD , TCGA-LUSC , TCGA-UCEC CT DICOM 256 276 431 86,066 CC BY 3.0

Citations & Data Usage Policy

Data Citation Required: Users must abide by the TCIA Data Usage Policy and Restrictions. Attribution must include the following citation, including the Digital Object Identifier:

Data Citation

Urban, T., Ziegler, E., Pieper, S., Kirby, J., Rukas, D., Beardmore, B., Somarouthu, B., Ozkan, E., Lelis, G., Fevrier-Sullivan, B., Nandekar, S., Beers, A., Jaffe, C., Freymann, J., Clunie, D., Harris, G. J., & Kalpathy-Cramer, J. (2019). Crowds Cure Cancer: Crowdsourced data collected at the RSNA 2018 annual meeting [Data set]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/TCIA.2019.yk0gm1eb

Detailed Description

Data resulting from this experiment is available in the following formats:

  • Source DICOM scans annotated by participants
  • CSV representation of crowd measurements
  • DICOM-SR representation of crowd measurements

Publications Using This Data

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TCIA Citation

Clark, K., Vendt, B., Smith, K., Freymann, J., Kirby, J., Koppel, P., Moore, S., Phillips, S., Maffitt, D., Pringle, M., Tarbox, L., & Prior, F. (2013). The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository. In Journal of Digital Imaging (Vol. 26, Issue 6, pp. 1045–1057). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7

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