National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)

License

CC BY 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Citation

Paper BibTeX:

@article{national2011reduced,
  title={Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening},
  author={National Lung Screening Trial Research Team},
  journal={New England Journal of Medicine},
  volume={365},
  number={5},
  pages={395--409},
  year={2011},
  publisher={Mass Medical Soc}
}

Dataset:

National Lung Screening Trial Research Team. (2013). Data from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) [Data set]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/TCIA.HMQ8-J677

Dataset description

The NLST investigated whether low-dose CT screening could reduce lung cancer mortality in high-risk individuals. Between 2002–2004, 53,454 participants were randomized to three annual screenings with either low-dose CT or chest radiography. This dataset includes low-dose CT scans from 26,254 subjects and histopathology images from 451 subjects, enabling research on early detection and screening efficacy.

Number of CT volumes: 7172

Contrast: Low-dose, non-contrast

CT body coverage: Chest

Does the dataset include any ground truth annotations?: No

Original GT annotation targets: -

Number of annotated CT volumes: -

Annotator: -

Acquisition centers: 33 medical centers across the United States

Pathology/Disease: High-risk individuals screened for lung cancer

Original dataset download link: https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collection/nlst/

Original dataset format: DICOM