@inproceedings{ca5eb41d52a840018e7d498430384f81,
title = "BCData: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Cell Detection and Counting",
abstract = "Breast cancer is a main malignant tumor for women and the incidence is trending to ascend. Detecting positive and negative tumor cells in the immunohistochemically stained sections of breast tissue to compute the Ki-67 index is an essential means to determine the degree of malignancy of breast cancer. However, there are scarcely public datasets about cell detection of Ki-67 stained images. In this paper, we introduce a large-scale Breast tumor Cell Dataset (BCData) for cell detection and counting, which contains 1,338 images with 181,074 annotated cells belonging to two categories, i.e., positive and negative tumor cells. (We state that our dataset can only be used for non-commercial research.) Our dataset varies widely in both the distributing density of tumor cells and the Ki-67 index. We conduct several cell detection and counting methods on this dataset to set the first benchmark. We believe that our dataset will facilitate further research in cell detection and counting fields in clustering, overlapping, and variational stained conditions. Our dataset is available at https://sites.google.com/view/bcdataset",
keywords = "Breast tumor cell dataset, Cell counting, Cell detection",
author = "Zhongyi Huang and Yao Ding and Guoli Song and Lin Wang and Ruizhe Geng and Hongliang He and Shan Du and Xia Liu and Yonghong Tian and Yongsheng Liang and Zhou, {S. Kevin} and Jie Chen",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 ; Conference date: 04-10-2020 Through 08-10-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-59722-1_28",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030597214",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "289--298",
editor = "Martel, {Anne L.} and Purang Abolmaesumi and Danail Stoyanov and Diana Mateus and Zuluaga, {Maria A.} and Zhou, {S. Kevin} and Daniel Racoceanu and Leo Joskowicz",
booktitle = "Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}