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. 2022 Aug 1;6:35. doi: 10.1186/s41747-022-00288-8

Table 1.

Summary of prostate MRI public datasets

Number Dataset Data source Modalities Dataset size Acquisition years Files size Data type Field strength Scanner manufacturer and model Coil type Clinical variables Purpose Reference
1 PROSTATE-MRI TNCI MRI (triplanar T2W, DWI, pre-contrast T1W, DCE) MRI cases (n = 26), pathology images (n = 26) 2008–2010 3.4 GB MRI cases (DICOM), pathology images (JPEG) 3 T Philips Achieva Endorectal Gleason grade (n = 26) Disease classification [20]
2 Prostate Fused-MRI-Pathology WRUHC, HUP MRI (triplanar T2W, DWI, pre-contrast T1W, DCE) MRI cases (n = 28), pathology images (n = 16) 2009–2011 81.2 GB MRI cases (DICOM), pathology images (TIFF, XML) 3 T Siemens Verio Endorectal Not reported Disease classification [21]
3 Prostate-3T RUMC MRI (axial T2W) MRI cases (n = 64), SV and NVB segmentations (n = 15) 2003–2005 610 MB MRI cases (DICOM), SV and NVB segmentations (MHA) 3 T Siemens Trio Pelvic phased-array surface Not reported Cancer detection [22]
4 ICCVB Not reported MRI (axialT2W, DWI, DCE, ADC) MRI cases (n = 12) Not reported 5.6 GB MRI cases (DICOM) 1.5 T (n = 7), 3 T (n = 5) GE (n = 7), Siemens (n = 5) Endorectal (n = 7), phased-array surface (n = 5) Not reported Cancer detection [23]
5 TCGA-PRAD UPMC, WHSL, LHMC MRI (axial T2W, DWI, pre-contrast T1W, DCE, ADC), CT, PET MRI cases (n = 10), CT images (n = 4), PET images (n = 3), pathology images (n = 14), genomics data (n = 14) Not reported 3.74 GB MRI cases (DICOM), CT images (DICOM), PET images (DICOM), pathology images (WEB), genomics data (WEB) 1.5 T GE Signa HDx Endorectal PSA (n = 14), Gleason grade (n = 14), lesion location (n = 14), TNM classification (n = 14) Disease classification, Cancer detection [24]
6 PROSTATE-DIAGNOSIS BMC MRI (axial and coronal T2W, DWI, pre-contrast T1W, DCE) MRI cases (n = 92), SV and NVB segmentations (n = 15), zones and lesions segmentations (n = 5) 2008–2010 5.6 GB MRI cases (DICOM), SV and NVB segmentations (MHA), zones and lesions segmentations (NRRD) 1.5 T Philips Achieva Endorectal Full report for: MRI (n = 54), biopsy (n = 43), specimen (n = 25), treatment (n = 52) Disease classification, Cancer detection [25]
7 Prostate-MRI-US-Biopsy UCCUC MRI (axial T2W), Ultrasound MRI cases (n = 842), ultrasound cases (n = 1,151), gland and lesions segmentations (n = 1,150) 2004–2011 78.2 GB MRI cases (DICOM), ultrasound cases (DICOM), gland and lesions segmentations (STL) MRI: 3 T (n = 807), 1.5 T (n = 35). Ultrasoun: 2–10 MHz MRI: Siemens Skyra (n = 609), Siemens Vida (n = 60), Siemens Prisma (n = 38), Siemens Verio (n = 36), Siemens Trio (n = 32), Siemens Avanto (n = 31), Siemens Espree (n = 1), GE Discovery MR750w (n = 14), GE Signa HDx (n = 10), GE Optima MR450w (n = 2), Philips Achieva (n = 5), Philips Ingenia (n = 4). Ultrasound: Hitachi Hi-Vision, Noblus C41V MRI:  Transabdominal phased-array surface.  Ultrasound: End-fire probe PIRADS (n = 840), PSA (n = 1146), Gleason grade (n = 196), prostate volume (n = 1,150), lesion location (n = 1,150) Disease classification, Cancer detection [26]
8 QIN PROSTATE BWH MRI (axial T2W, DWI, pre-contrast T1W, DCE, ADC) MRI cases (n = 22) Not reported 4.4 GB MRI cases (DICOM) 3 T GE Signa HDx Endorectal Not reported Disease classification, Cancer detection [27]
9 QIN-PROSTATE-Repeatability BWH MRI (axial T2W, DWI, DCE, ADC) MRI cases (n = 15) zones and lesions segmentations (n = 15) 2013–2015 14.86 GB MRI cases (DICOM), zone and lesions segmentations (DICOM) 3 T GE Signa HDx Endorectal Not reported Repeatability measurements, Disease classification [28]
10 SPIE-AAPM-NCI PROSTATEx Challenges RUMC MRI (triplanar T2W, DWI, DCE, ADC, PDW) MRI cases (n = 346), Ktrans images (n = 345), thumbnails images (n = 345) 2012 15.4 GB MRI cases (DICOM), Ktrans images (MHD), thumbnail images (BMP) 3 T Siemens Trio (n = 57), Siemens Skyra (n = 289) Pelvic phased-array surface Lesion location (n = 344), significant/insignificant cancer (n = 204), Gleason grade group (n = 99) Disease classification, Cancer detection [18, 29]
11 NCI-ISBI 2013 ASPS Challenge BMC, RUMC MRI (axial T2W) MRI cases (n = 80), zones segmentations (n = 80) 2003–2010 600 MB MRI cases (DICOM), zones segmentations (NRRD) 1.5 T (n = 40), 3 T (n = 40) Philips Achieva (n = 40), Siemens Trio (n = 40) Endorectal (n = 40), pelvic phased-array surface (n = 40) Not reported Zones segmentation [30, 31]
12 PROMISE12 Challenge HUH, BIDMC, UCL, RUMC MRI (axial T2W) MRI cases (n = 80), whole gland segmentations (n = 50) Not reported 1.2 GB MRI cases (MHD), gland segmentations (MHD) 1.5 T (n = 30), 3 T (n = 50) GE (n = 20), Semiens (n = 60) Endorectal (n = 41), phased-array surface (n = 39) Not reported Whole gland segmentation [32, 33]
13 Medical Segmentation Decathlon RUMC MRI (axial T2W, ADC) MRI cases (n = 48), zones segmentations (n =32) Not reported 229 MB MRI cases (NII.GZ), zones segmentations (NII.GZ) 3 T Not reported Phased-array surface coil Not reported Zones segmentation [34, 35]
14 QUBIQ21 Challenge Not reported MRI (axial T2W) MRI cases (n = 55), whole and central gland segmentations (n = 55 [327 masks]) Not reported 2.04 GB MRI cases (NII.GZ), whole and central gland segmentations (NII.GZ) Not reported Not reported Endorectal Not reported Segmentation uncertainty estimation [17]
15 NCIGT-PROSTATE BMWH MRI (triplanar T2W) MRI cases (n = 10), gland segmentations (n = 10) Not reported 768 MB MRI cases (DICOM) 3 T GE Signa HDx Endorectal Not reported Whole gland segmentation [36]
16 PI-CAI Challenge RUMC, UMCG, ZGT MRI (triplanar T2W, DWI, ADC) MRI cases (n = 1,500), lesions segmentations (n = 1,295) 2012-2021 32.5 GB MRI cases (MHA), lesions segmentations (NII.GZ) 1.5 T (n = 82), 3 T (n = 1,418) Siemens ([Skyra 3 T, TrioTim 3 T, Prisma 3 T, Aera 1.5 T, Avanto 1.5 T, Espree 1.5 T]; n = 1,221), Philips ([Ingenia 3 T, Achieva 1.5 T, Intera 1.5 T]; n = 279) Phased-array surface coil Age (n = 1,500), PSA (n = 1,460), PSA density (n = 1,047), Gleason grade (n = 1,001), prostate volume (n = 1,473), histopathology type (n = 1,001) Disease classification, Cancer detection [37, 38]
17 Prostate158 CUB MRI (axial T2W, DWI, ADC) MRI cases (n = 139), zones segmentation (n = 139), lesions segmentations (n = 83) Not reported 2.6 GB MRI cases (NII.GZ), zones and lesions segmentations (NII.GZ) 3 T Not reported Phased-array surface coil Not reported Zones segmentation, Cancer detection [39]

ADC Apparent diffusion coefficient; BIDMC Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; BMC Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; BWH Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; CT Computed Tomography; CUB Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; DCE Dynamic contrast-enhanced; DWI Diffusion-weighted imaging; GE General Electric Healthcare Systems, Milwaukee, WI, USA; HUH Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; HUP Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; LHMC Lahey Hospital Medical Center, Burlington, MA, USA; MRI Magnetic resonance imaging; NVB Neurovascular Bundle; PDW Proton Density-Weighted; PET Positron emission tomography; Philips Philips Healthcare, Best, the Netherlands; PI-RADS Prostate Imaging-Reporting And Data System; PSA Prostate-specific antigen; RUMC Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Siemens Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany; SV Seminal vesicles; T1W T1-weighted; T2W T2-Weighted; TNCI The National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA; TNM Tumor Node Metastasis; UCCUC The University of California Clark Urology Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA; UCL University College London, London, UK; UMCG University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; UPMC University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; WHSL Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA; WRUHC Western Reserve University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, USA; ZGT Ziekenhuis Groep Twente, Twente, the Netherlands.