VinDr-Mammo: A large-scale benchmark dataset for computer-aided diagnosis in full-field digital mammography
This dataset addresses a bottleneck for researchers developing CADe/CADx tools in mammography, though it is incremental as it provides a new resource rather than a novel method.
The authors tackled the lack of large-scale datasets for full-field digital mammography (FFDM) by introducing VinDr-Mammo, a benchmark dataset of 5,000 mammography exams with four standard views each, designed to support computer-aided detection and diagnosis tools for breast cancer and other diseases.
Mammography, or breast X-ray, is the most widely used imaging modality to detect cancer and other breast diseases. Recent studies have shown that deep learning-based computer-assisted detection and diagnosis (CADe or CADx) tools have been developed to support physicians and improve the accuracy of interpreting mammography. However, most published datasets of mammography are either limited on sample size or digitalized from screen-film mammography (SFM), hindering the development of CADe and CADx tools which are developed based on full-field digital mammography (FFDM). To overcome this challenge, we introduce VinDr-Mammo - a new benchmark dataset of FFDM for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer and other diseases in mammography. The dataset consists of 5,000 mammography exams, each of which has four standard views and is double read with disagreement (if any) being resolved by arbitration. It is created for the assessment of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) and density at the breast level. In addition, the dataset also provides the category, location, and BI-RADS assessment of non-benign findings. We make VinDr-Mammo publicly available on PhysioNet as a new imaging resource to promote advances in developing CADe and CADx tools for breast cancer screening.