Open Access to Medical Imaging Dataset Could Advance Computer-Aided Detection
BETHESDA, Md., July 23, 2018 — Researchers announce the open availability of the largest CT lesion-image database accessible to the public. DeepLesion, created by a team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, could help foster the development of deep-learning approaches for computer-aided detection (CADe) and diagnosis (CADx). DeepLesion was developed by mining historical medical data from the NIH PACS (picture archiving and communication system), using the annotations, i.e., bookmarks, of