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Michael F McNitt-Gray¹, Samuel G Armato, Charles R Meyer

¹Department of Radiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Suite 650, 924 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1721, USA. mmcnittgray@mednet.ucla.edu

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A novel two-phase process allowed multiple radiologists to annotate lung nodules on thoracic CT scans asynchronously. This method captures reader variability and provides a robust dataset for computer-aided detection research.

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Radiology
Computer-Aided Diagnosis

Background:

The Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) aims to create a public thoracic CT scan database.
This resource is intended to advance computer-aided detection and characterization of pulmonary nodules.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and implement a unique data collection process for annotating lung nodules on CT scans.
To capture inter-reader variability in nodule identification and spatial extent estimation.

Main Methods:

A two-phase, multicenter approach involving four expert thoracic radiologists.
Phase 1: Independent, blinded review of each CT scan.
Phase 2: Unblinded review incorporating results from all readers, facilitated by an XML-based messaging system.

Main Results:

The developed two-phase data collection process was successfully implemented across the LIDC.
Over 500 thoracic CT scans have been annotated by four expert readers using this methodology.
Annotated scans are becoming publicly available through the National Cancer Imaging Archive (NCIA).

Conclusions:

A unique, asynchronous, multi-reader annotation process for CT scans was successfully established.
This method effectively captures individual radiologist interpretations of lung nodules.
The resulting dataset enhances research in pulmonary nodule detection and characterization.