Duke Liver MRI Dataset with Segmentation Masks and Series Labels
The Duke Liver Dataset contains 2146 abdominal MRI series from 105 patients, including a majority with cirrhotic features, and 310 image series with corresponding manually segmented liver masks. The dataset supports development and evaluation of automated series classification and liver segmentation models.
dataset2025-11-21https://doi.org/10.1148/atlas.1763595090013
172

Overview

Schema Version

https://atlas.rsna.org/schemas/2025-11/dataset.json

Name

Duke Liver MRI Dataset with Segmentation Masks and Series Labels

Link

https://zenodo.org/record/7774566

Indexing

Keywords: MR Imaging, Abdominal Imaging, Liver, Image Segmentation, Feature Detection, Series Classification, Liver Disease, Cirrhosis
Content: GI, MR
RadLex: RID58

Author(s)

Jacob A. Macdonald
Zhe Zhu
Brandon Konkel
Maciej A. Mazurowski
Walter F. Wiggins
Mustafa R. Bashir

Organization(s)

Duke University

Version

2.0

Contact

jacob.macdonald@duke.edu

Ethical review

Approved by data licensing committee and local institutional review board. Requirement for written informed consent was waived due to retrospective nature and full de-identification.

Comments

The Duke Liver Dataset contains 2146 abdominal MRI series from 105 patients, including a majority with cirrhotic features, and 310 image series with corresponding manually segmented liver masks. The dataset supports development and evaluation of automated series classification and liver segmentation models.

Date

Created: 2020-10-28

Dataset

Motivation

To provide a resource for developing liver segmentation tools and automated series classification models, especially given heterogeneous labeling of image sequence types and the time-consuming nature of manual segmentation.

Sampling

Derived from a subset of patients who underwent clinical contrast-enhanced MRI examinations of the abdomen for liver cirrhosis indication at one of three centers. 87 of 105 patients had imaging findings suggestive of cirrhosis.

Missing information

Not all possible contrast types are represented, and MRI is the only modality represented.

Relationships between instances

Includes 2146 image series from 105 patients with corresponding human-derived labels for MRI sequence type and liver segmentation.

Noise

Mild to moderate artifacts, such as motion and susceptibility, are not uncommon. Cirrhosis causes characteristic changes in liver shape that could confound models trained on healthy livers.

External data

Can be supplemented with Combined (CT-MR) Healthy Abdominal Organ Segmentation (CHAOS) or Liver Tumor Segmentation (LiTS) datasets.

Confidentiality

Full de-identification of the data was performed.

Re-identification

Full de-identification of the data was performed.

Sensitive data

Data was fully de-identified.