Data Description¶

The challenge will be conducted on a dataset, acquired by a team of pathologists at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, UK. Details of the dataset are as follows.

• Dataset: Warwick-QU
• Cancer Type: Colorectal cancer
• Number of Images: 165
• Resolution/Scanner:  20X (0.62005 /pixel) / Zeiss MIRAX MIDI
• Format: bmp

The composition of the dataset is as follows.

• Training: benign : 37, malignant : 48
• Test:       benign : 37, malignant : 43

The ground truth for each image in the training dataset is stored in a BMP file, one ground truth object per label.

Data Usage

• The dataset used in this competition is provided for research purposes only. Commercial uses are not allowed.
• If you intend to publish research work that uses this dataset, you must cite our review paper to be published after the competition

K. Sirinukunwattana, J. P. W. Pluim, H. Chen, X Qi, P. Heng, Y. Guo, L. Wang, B. J. Matuszewski, E. Bruni, U. Sanchez, A. Böhm, O. Ronneberger, B. Ben Cheikh, D. Racoceanu, P. Kainz, M. Pfeiffer, M. Urschler, D. R. J. Snead, N. M. Rajpoot, "Gland Segmentation in Colon Histology Images: The GlaS Challenge Contest",   Medical Image Analysis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2016.08.008

@article{sirinukunwattana2017gland,
  title={Gland segmentation in colon histology images: The glas challenge contest},
  author={Sirinukunwattana, Korsuk and Pluim, Josien PW and Chen, Hao and Qi, Xiaojuan and Heng, Pheng-Ann and Guo, Yun Bo and Wang, Li Yang and Matuszewski, Bogdan J and Bruni, Elia and Sanchez, Urko and others},
  journal={Medical image analysis},
  volume={35},
  pages={489--502},
  year={2017},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

• AND the following paper, wherein the same dataset was first used:

K. Sirinukunwattana, D.R.J. Snead, N.M. Rajpoot, "A Stochastic Polygons Model for Glandular Structures in Colon Histology Images," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2433900

@article{sirinukunwattana2015stochastic,
  title={A stochastic polygons model for glandular structures in colon histology images},
  author={Sirinukunwattana, Korsuk and Snead, David RJ and Rajpoot, Nasir M},
  journal={IEEE transactions on medical imaging},
  volume={34},
  number={11},
  pages={2366--2378},
  year={2015},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

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