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. 2023 May 3;5(3):e230001.
doi: 10.1148/ryai.230001. eCollection 2023 May.

Augmentation of the RSNA Pulmonary Embolism CT Dataset with Bounding Box Annotations and Anatomic Localization of Pulmonary Emboli

Matias F Callejas  1 , Hui Ming Lin  1 , Thomas Howard  1 , Matthew Aitken  1 , Marc Napoleone  1 , Laura Jimenez-Juan  1 , Robert Moreland  1 , Shobhit Mathur  1 , Djeven P Deva  1 , Errol Colak  1
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Augmentation of the RSNA Pulmonary Embolism CT Dataset with Bounding Box Annotations and Anatomic Localization of Pulmonary Emboli

Matias F Callejas et al. Radiol Artif Intell. .

Abstract

Supplemental material is available for this article. Keywords: CT, Pulmonary Arteries, Embolism/Thrombosis, Feature Detection © RSNA, 2023.

Keywords: CT; Embolism/Thrombosis; Feature Detection; Pulmonary Arteries.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosures of conflicts of interest: M.F.C. No relevant relationships. H.M.L. No relevant relationships. T.H. No relevant relationships. M.A. No relevant relationships. M.N. No relevant relationships. L.J.J. No relevant relationships. R.M. No relevant relationships. S.M. No relevant relationships. D.P.D. Consultant fees on research matters pertaining to a medical device from Edwards Lifesciences totaling $25 000 to a joint departmental medical imaging research account. E.C. Support from Odette Professorship in Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging, St Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Canada; member of the Machine Learning Steering Subcommittee of the Radiology Informatics Council for the RSNA.

Figures

Examples of bounding box annotations of pulmonary emboli on CT pulmonary angiograms. (A) Embolus within the left main pulmonary artery. (B) Embolus within the left main pulmonary artery. (C) Emboli within the superior segment of the right lower lobe and inferior segment of the lingula. (D) Segmental and subsegmental emboli in both lower lobes.
Figure 1:
Examples of bounding box annotations of pulmonary emboli on CT pulmonary angiograms. (A) Embolus within the left main pulmonary artery. (B) Embolus within the left main pulmonary artery. (C) Emboli within the superior segment of the right lower lobe and inferior segment of the lingula. (D) Segmental and subsegmental emboli in both lower lobes.
Graph shows frequency distribution of the number of bounding boxes per image.
Figure 2:
Graph shows frequency distribution of the number of bounding boxes per image.
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