metadata

license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
  - image-classification
  - image-segmentation
tags:
  - medical
pretty_name: M-SYNTH
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

M-SYNTH

M-SYNTH is a synthetic digital mammography (DM) dataset with four breast fibroglandular density distributions imaged using Monte Carlo x-ray simulations with the publicly available Virtual Imaging Clinical Trial for Regulatory Evaluation (VICTRE) toolkit.

Dataset Details

The dataset has the following characteristics:

Breast density: dense, heterogeneously dense, scattered, fatty
Mass radius (mm): 5.00, 7.00, 9.00
Mass density: 1.0, 1.06, 1.1 (ratio of radiodensity of the mass to that of fibroglandular tissue)
Relative dose: 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100% of the clinically recommended dose for each density

Dataset Description

Curated by: Elena Sizikova, Niloufar Saharkhiz, Diksha Sharma, Miguel Lago, Berkman Sahiner, Jana Gut Delfino, Aldo Badano
License: Creative Commons 1.0 Universal License (CC0)

Dataset Sources

Code: https://github.com/DIDSR/msynth-release
Paper: https://neurips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/73701
Demo: https://github.com/DIDSR/msynth-release/tree/master/examples

Uses

M-SYNTH is intended to facilitate testing of AI with pre-computed synthetic mammography data.

Direct Use

M-SYNTH can be used to evaluate the effect of mass size and density, breast density, and dose on AI performance in lesion detection. M-SYNTH can be used to either train or test pre-trained AI models.

Out-of-Scope Use

M-SYNTH cannot be used in lieu of real patient examples to make performance determinations.

Dataset Structure

M-SYNTH is organized into a directory structure that indicates the parameters. The folder

device_data_VICTREPhantoms_spic_[LESION_DENSITY]/[DOSE]/[BREAST_DENSITY]/2/[LESION_SIZE]/SIM/P2_[LESION_SIZE]_[BREAST_DENSITY].8337609.[PHANTOM_FILE_ID]/[PHANTOM_FILEID]/

contains image files imaged with the specified parameters. Note that only examples with odd PHANTOM_FILEID contain lesions, others do not.

$ tree data/device_data_VICTREPhantoms_spic_1.0/1.02e10/hetero/2/5.0/SIM/P2_5.0_hetero.8337609.1/1/

data/device_data_VICTREPhantoms_spic_1.0/1.02e10/hetero/2/5.0/SIM/P2_5.0_hetero.8337609.1/1/
├── DICOM_dm
│   └── 000.dcm
├── projection_DM1.loc
├── projection_DM1.mhd
└── projection_DM1.raw

Each folder contains mammogram data that can be read from .raw format (.mhd contains supporting data), or DICOM (.dcm) format. Coordinates of lesions can be found in .loc files. Segmentations are stored in .raw format and can be found in data/segmentation_masks/* .

See Github for examples of how to access the files, and examples for code to load each type of file.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

Simulation-based testing is constrained to the parameter variability represented in the object model and the acquisition system. There is a risk of misjudging model performance if the simulated examples do not capture the variability in real patients. Please see the paper for a full discussion of biases, risks, and limitations.

Citation

@article{sizikova2023knowledge,
  title={Knowledge-based in silico models and dataset for the comparative evaluation of mammography AI for a range of breast characteristics, lesion conspicuities and doses},
  author={Sizikova, Elena and Saharkhiz, Niloufar and Sharma, Diksha and Lago, Miguel and Sahiner, Berkman and Delfino, Jana G. and Badano, Aldo},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume={},
  pages={},
  year={2023}
}

Datasets:

didsr
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msynth