VISCERAL: Towards large data in medical imaging - Challenges and directions

Georg Langs, Allan Hanbury, Bjoern Menze, Henning Müller

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Abstract

The increasing amount of medical imaging data acquired in clinical practice holds a tremendous body of diagnostically relevant information. Only a small portion of these data are accessible during clinical routine or research due to the complexity, richness, high dimensionality and size of the data. There is consensus in the community that leaps in this regard are hampered by the lack of large bodies of data shared across research groups and an associated definition of joint challenges on which development can focus. In this paper we describe the objectives of the project Visceral. It will provide the means to jump-start this process by providing access to unprecedented amounts of real world imaging data annotated through experts and by using a community effort to generate a large corpus of automatically generated standard annotations. To this end, Visceral will conduct two competitions that tackle large scale medical image data analysis in the fields of anatomy detection, and content-based image retrieval, in this case the retrieval of similar medical cases using visual data and textual radiology reports.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support - Third MICCAI International Workshop, MCBR-CDS 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Pages92-98
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd MICCAI International Workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support, MCBR-CDS 2012 - Nice, France
Duration: 1 Oct 20121 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7723 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd MICCAI International Workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support, MCBR-CDS 2012
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period1/10/121/10/12

Keywords

  • Large scale data
  • Localization
  • Medical imaging
  • Retrieval

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