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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 10(34), p. 1993-2024, 2015
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The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS)
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Andras Jakab ,
Stefan Bauer,
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer,
Keyvan Farahani,
Justin Kirby,
Yuliya Burren,
Nicole Porz,
Johannes Slotboom,
Roland Wiest,
Levente Lanczi,
Marc-André Weber,
Tal Arbel,
Brian B. Avants
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Abstract
In this paper we report the set-up and results of the Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS) organized in conjunction with the MICCAI 2012 and 2013 conferences. Twenty state-of-the-art tumor segmentation algorithms were applied to a set of 65 multi-contrast MR scans of low- and high-grade glioma patients - manually annotated by up to four raters - and to 65 comparable scans generated using tumor image simulation software. Quantitative evaluations revealed considerable disagreement between the human raters in segmenting various tumor sub-regions (Dice scores in the range 74-85%), illustrating the difficulty of this task. We found that different algorithms worked best for different sub-regions (reaching performance comparable to human inter-rater variability), but that no single algorithm ranked in the top for all subregions simultaneously. Fusing several good algorithms using a hierarchical majority vote yielded segmentations that consistently ranked above all individual algorithms, indicating remaining opportunities for further methodological improvements. The BRATS image data and manual annotations continue to be publicly available through an online evaluation system as an ongoing benchmarking resource.