IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", Via P. Maroncelli 40, 47014, Meldola (FC), Italy.
Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Via L. Ariosto 34, I-44121, Ferrara, Italy.
Sci Data. 2021 Aug 5;8(1):209. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00990-z.
Testicular cancer is a rare tumor with a worldwide incidence that has increased over the last few decades. The majority of these tumors are testicular non-germ (TNGCTs) and germ cell tumors (TGCTs); the latter divided into two broad classes - seminomatous (SGCTs) and non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCTs). Although ultrasonography (US) maintains a primary role in the diagnostic workup of scrotal pathology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as the imaging modality recommended for challenging cases, providing additional information to clarify inconclusive/equivocal US. In this work we describe and publicly share a collection of 44 images of annotated T2-weighted MRI lesions from 42 patients. Given that testicular cancer is a rare tumor, we are confident that this collection can be used to validate statistical models and to further investigate TNGCT and TGCT peculiarities using medical imaging features.
睾丸癌是一种罕见的肿瘤,其全球发病率在过去几十年中有所增加。这些肿瘤大多数是睾丸非生殖细胞肿瘤(TNGCT)和生殖细胞肿瘤(TGCT);后者分为两类 - 精原细胞瘤(SGCT)和非精原细胞瘤生殖细胞肿瘤(NSGCT)。虽然超声(US)在阴囊病变的诊断性检查中仍起着主要作用,但磁共振成像(MRI)已成为推荐用于疑难病例的影像学方式,为澄清不确定/可疑的 US 提供了更多信息。在这项工作中,我们描述并公开分享了来自 42 名患者的 44 个 T2 加权 MRI 病变标注图像的集合。鉴于睾丸癌是一种罕见的肿瘤,我们相信这个集合可以用于验证统计模型,并使用医学成像特征进一步研究 TNGCT 和 TGCT 的特征。