Montgomery County X-ray Set
Stefan Jaeger and S. Candemir and Sameer Kiran Antani and Yì-Xiáng J Wáng and P. Lu and G. Thoma

@article{,
title= {Montgomery County X-ray Set},
doi= {10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2014.11.20},
year= {2014},
keywords= {radiology},
author= {Stefan Jaeger and S. Candemir and Sameer Kiran Antani and Yì-Xiáng J Wáng and P. Lu and G. Thoma},
abstract= {X-ray images in this data set have been acquired from the tuberculosis control program of the Department of Health and Human Services of Montgomery County, MD, USA. This set contains 138 posterior-anterior x-rays, of which 80 x-rays are normal and 58 x-rays are abnormal with manifestations of tuberculosis. All images are de-identified and available in DICOM format. The set covers a wide range of abnormalities, including effusions and miliary patterns. The data set includes radiology readings available as a text file.



https://i.imgur.com/JhQU2S5.png

Left Lung (Right lung segmentation also exists)

https://i.imgur.com/72dmGdB.png

## Citation

Candemir S, Jaeger S, Musco J, Xue Z, Karargyris A, Antani SK, Thoma GR, Palaniappan K. Lung segmentation in chest radiographs using anatomical atlases with nonrigid registration. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2014 Feb;33(2):577-90. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2290491. PMID: 24239990

Jaeger S, Karargyris A, Candemir S, Folio L, Siegelman J, Callaghan FM, Xue Z, Palaniappan K, Singh RK, Antani SK. Automatic tuberculosis screening using chest radiographs. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2014 Feb;33(2):233-45. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2284099. PMID: 24108713

**Reference:** Jaeger et al., Two public chest X-ray datasets for computer-aided screening of pulmonary diseases.. 2014. https://doi.org/10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2014.11.20},
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license= {},
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url= {https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/tuberculosis-chest-x-ray-image-data-sets/}
}