An analysis of early studies released by the Lung Imaging Database Consortium (LIDC).

Rationale And Objectives: To analyze radiologist lung nodule segmentations in the Lung Imaging Database Consortium (LIDC) database and to apply statistical tools to generate estimates of ground truth. This investigation expands on earlier work by considering a larger number of cases from the LIDC database, and results were generated on a per-nodule basis, as opposed to a per-case basis as was done previously.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed nodule data drawn from the 41 most recent computed tomography exams released by the LIDC.

An analysis of early studies released by the Lung Imaging Database Consortium (LIDC).

Lung cancer remains an ongoing problem resulting in substantial deaths in the United States and the world. Within the United states, cancer of the lung and bronchus are the leading causes of fatal malignancy and make up 32% of the cancer deaths among men and 25% of the cancer deaths among women. Five year survival is low, (14%), but recent studies are beginning to provide some hope that we can increase survivability of lung cancer provided that the cancer is caught and treated in early stages.