VerSe

Spine or vertebral segmentation is a crucial step in all applications regarding automated quantification of spinal morphology and pathology. With the advent of deep learning, for such a task on computed tomography (CT) scans, a big and varied data is a primary sought-after resource. However, a large-scale, public dataset is currently unavailable.

VerSe is a large scale, multi-detector, multi-site, CT spine dataset consisting of 374 scans from 355 patients. The challenge was held in two iterations in conjunction with MICCAI 2019 and 2020. The tasks evaluated for include: vertebral labelling and segmentation.

Image source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.09193v5.pdf