RSPECT (The RSNA Pulmonary Embolism CT)

The RSNA Pulmonary Embolism CT (RSPECT) Dataset is composed of CT pulmonary angiogram images and annotations related to pulmonary embolism. It's part of the 2020 RSNA Pulmonary Embolism Detection Challenge which invited researchers to develop machine-learning algorithms to detect and characterize instances of pulmonary embolism (PE) on chest CT studies. The competition, conducted in collaboration with the Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR), involved creating the largest publicly available annotated PE dataset, comprised of more than 12,000 CT studies. Imaging data was contributed by five international research centers and labeled with detailed clinical annotations by a group of more than 80 expert thoracic radiologists. For the first time in an RSNA data challenge, the rules required competitors to submit and run their code in a standard shared environment, producing simpler, more readily usable models.