TITLE: COVID-CT-MD: COVID-19 Computed Tomography (CT) Scan Dataset Applicable in Machine Learning and Deep Learning 

ABSTRACT: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has drastically overwhelmed more than 200
countries affecting millions and claiming almost 1 million lives, since its
emergence in late 2019. This highly contagious disease can easily spread, and
if not controlled in a timely fashion, can rapidly incapacitate healthcare
systems. The current standard diagnosis method, the Reverse Transcription
Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT- PCR), is time consuming, and subject to low
sensitivity. Chest Radiograph (CXR), the first imaging modality to be used, is
readily available and gives immediate results. However, it has notoriously
lower sensitivity than Computed Tomography (CT), which can be used efficiently
to complement other diagnostic methods. This paper introduces a new COVID-19 CT
scan dataset, referred to as COVID-CT-MD, consisting of not only COVID-19
cases, but also healthy and subjects infected by Community Acquired Pneumonia
(CAP). COVID-CT-MD dataset, which is accompanied with lobe-level, slice-level
and patient-level labels, has the potential to facilitate the COVID-19
research, in particular COVID-CT-MD can assist in development of advanced
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Network (DNN) based solutions.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has drastically overwhelmed more than 200
countries affecting millions and claiming almost 1 million lives, since its
emergence in late 2019. This highly contagious disease can easily spread, and
if not controlled in a timely fashion, can rapidly incapacitate healthcare
systems. The current standard diagnosis method, the Reverse Transcription
Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT- PCR), is time consuming, and subject to low
sensitivity. Chest Radiograph (CXR), the first imaging modality to be used, is
readily available and gives immediate results. However, it has notoriously
lower sensitivity than Computed Tomography (CT), which can be used efficiently
to complement other diagnostic methods. This paper introduces a new COVID-19 CT
scan dataset, referred to as COVID-CT-MD, consisting of not only COVID-19
cases, but also healthy and subjects infected by Community Acquired Pneumonia
(CAP). COVID-CT-MD dataset, which is accompanied with lobe-level, slice-level
and patient-level labels, has the potential to facilitate the COVID-19
research, in particular COVID-CT-MD can assist in development of advanced
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Network (DNN) based solutions.
COVID-CT-MD: COVID-19 Computed Tomography (CT) Scan Dataset Applicable in Machine Learning and Deep Learning
http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14623v1