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Dataset Controlled access NCI CDAS data-use agreement

NLST — National Lung Screening Trial

The trial that established LDCT screening; its images plus outcomes trained Sybil and remain the only large public-by-application longitudinal LDCT cohort.

At a glance

ProviderNCI (Cancer Data Access System)
AccessControlled access
LicenceNCI CDAS data-use agreement
patients53 454
Size notesrandomised trial of low-dose CT vs chest X-ray screening (2002–2009) with cancer and mortality follow-up; imaging available for a subset
FormatsDICOM, CSV

Labels and annotations

Screening results, nodule findings, cancer diagnoses with histology and stage, and cause-specific mortality — outcome labels that make longitudinal risk modelling possible.

Details

Not yet documented on this card.

Models trained or evaluated on it

  • training Sybil MIT Jameel Clinic / Massachusetts General Hospital — training and held-out test

Sources

  1. NCI CDAS — NLST

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