The LIDC image collection consists of diagnostic and lung cancer screening thoracic CT scans with marked-up annotated lesions. It is a web-accessible international resource for development, training, and evaluation of computer-assisted diagnostic (CAD) methods for lung cancer detection and diagnosis.
In addition to LIDC there is a limited access set of additional data called IDRI which is part of the same funded work. Recently approximately 400 cases from the IDRI subset were migrated to the public LIDC collection.
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As part of an effort to move towards standard formats for annotation and markup a project has been undertaken to convert this data from the LIDC project into Annotated Image Markup format (AIM). AIM is a standard which was developed out of the caBIG program. A related section of the wiki has been dedicated to covering the activities of this project and can be found here: LIDC Conversion to AIM