T2-weighted Kidney MRI Segmentation

A dataset containing 100 T₂-weighted abdominal MRI scans and manually defined kidney masks. This MRI sequence is designed to optimise contrast between the kidneys and surrounding tissue to increase the accuracy of segmentation. Half of the acquisitions were acquired of healthy control subjects while the other half were acquired from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients. Ten of the subjects were scanned five times in the same session to enable assessment of the precision of Total Kidney Volume (TKV) measurements. More information about each subject can be found in the included csv file. This dataset was used to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to automatically segment the kidneys. For more information about the dataset please refer to this article. For an executable that allows automated segmentation of the kidneys from this dataset please refer to this software.