fastPET-LD

In this challenge, we provide 2 training datasets of 68 cases each: the first one was acquired at Sheba medical center (Israel) nuclear medicine department with a very-short exposure of 30s pbp, while the second is the same data followed by a denoising step implemented by a fully convolutional Dnn architecture trained under perceptual loss [1,2]. The purpose of this challenge is the detection of “hot spots”, that is locations that have an elevated standard uptake value (SUV) and potential clinical significance. Corresponding CT scans are also provided. The ground truth, common to both datasets, was generated by Dr. Liran Domachevsky, chair of  nuclear medicine  at Sheba medical center. It consists of a 3-D segmentation map of the hot spots as well as an Excel file containing the position and size of a 3D cuboid bounding box for each hot spot.

Out of 68 cases, 55 with  ground truth, for training,  while 13 cases, the test set, are provided without ground truth.