Curated and Annotated Dataset of Lung US Images in Zambian Children with Clinical Pneumonia

Lauren Etter1, Margrit Betke1, Ingrid Y Camelo1

  • 1From the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Boston University Medical Campus, 801 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02118-2526 (L.E., C.J.G., R.P., A.W.); Department of Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Mass (M.B.); Pediatric Infectious Diseases Section, Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga (I.Y.C.); Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass (R.T.); Ultrasound Laboratory Trento, University of Trento, Trento, Italy (L.D., U.K.); University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia (J.K.); and Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Mass (B.N.S., I.C.A.).

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