Large-scale CT dataset provides tumor masks for 9 organs

Merlin Plus adds 1,153 per-voxel tumor masks and longitudinal metadata using a report-based active learning pipeline

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Pedro R. A. S. Bassi · Wenxuan Li · Szymon Plotka · Ruby Honjol · Jakub Przado · Xinze Zhou · +7 more

Johns Hopkins University · Harvard Medical School · Massachusetts General Hospital · Jagiellonian University · Stanford University

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The authors present Merlin Plus, a public CT dataset containing radiologist-created tumor masks for 9 organs that previously lacked such annotations.

Bassi et al.

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From Johns Hopkins University and 7 others

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Merlin Plus provides radiologist-created tumor masks across 9 organs in CT scans, enabling superior multi-cancer segmentation and detection.

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