Publications (21)
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge: Local Synthesis of Healthy Brain Tissue via Inpainting
Florian Kofler, Felix Meissen, Felix Steinbauer +103
A myriad of algorithms for the automatic analysis of brain MR images is available to support clinicians in their decision-making. For brain tumor patients, the image acquisition ti…
Language Models and Retrieval Augmented Generation for Automated Structured Data Extraction from Diagnostic Reports
Mohamed Sobhi Jabal, Pranav Warman, Jikai Zhang +6
Purpose: To develop and evaluate an automated system for extracting structured clinical information from unstructured radiology and pathology reports using open-weights large langu…
The Brain Tumor Sequence Registration (BraTS-Reg) Challenge: Establishing Correspondence Between Pre-Operative and Follow-up MRI Scans of Diffuse Glioma Patients
Bhakti Baheti, Satrajit Chakrabarty, Hamed Akbari +70
Registration of longitudinal brain MRI scans containing pathologies is challenging due to dramatic changes in tissue appearance. Although there has been progress in developing gene…
The Brain Tumor Segmentation in Pediatrics (BraTS-PEDs) Challenge: Focus on Pediatrics (CBTN-CONNECT-DIPGR-ASNR-MICCAI BraTS-PEDs)
Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Nastaran Khalili, Xinyang Liu +68
Pediatric tumors of the central nervous system are the most common cause of cancer-related death in children. The five-year survival rate for high-grade gliomas in children is less…
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge 2023: Glioma Segmentation in Sub-Saharan Africa Patient Population (BraTS-Africa)
Maruf Adewole, Jeffrey D. Rudie, Anu Gbadamosi +48
Gliomas are the most common type of primary brain tumors. Although gliomas are relatively rare, they are among the deadliest types of cancer, with a survival rate of less than 2 ye…
Federated Learning Enables Big Data for Rare Cancer Boundary Detection
Sarthak Pati, Ujjwal Baid, Brandon Edwards +276
Although machine learning (ML) has shown promise in numerous domains, there are concerns about generalizability to out-of-sample data. This is currently addressed by centrally shar…
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge 2023: Focus on Pediatrics (CBTN-CONNECT-DIPGR-ASNR-MICCAI BraTS-PEDs)
Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Nastaran Khalili, Xinyang Liu +70
Pediatric tumors of the central nervous system are the most common cause of cancer-related death in children. The five-year survival rate for high-grade gliomas in children is less…
Analysis of the MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation -- Metastases (BraTS-METS) 2025 Lighthouse Challenge: Brain Metastasis Segmentation on Pre- and Post-treatment MRI
Nazanin Maleki, Raisa Amiruddin, Ahmed W. Moawad +240
Despite continuous advancements in cancer treatment, brain metastatic disease remains a significant complication of primary cancer and is associated with an unfavorable prognosis.…
The University of California San Francisco Brain Metastases Stereotactic Radiosurgery (UCSF-BMSR) MRI Dataset
Jeffrey D. Rudie, Rachit Saluja, David A. Weiss +10
The University of California San Francisco Brain Metastases Stereotactic Radiosurgery (UCSF-BMSR) dataset is a public, clinical, multimodal brain MRI dataset consisting of 560 brai…
The University of California San Francisco Preoperative Diffuse Glioma MRI (UCSF-PDGM) Dataset
Evan Calabrese, Javier E. Villanueva-Meyer, Jeffrey D. Rudie +6
Here we present the University of California San Francisco Preoperative Diffuse Glioma MRI (UCSF-PDGM) dataset. The UCSF-PDGM dataset includes 500 subjects with histopathologically…
Spinal cord gray matter segmentation using deep dilated convolutions
Christian S. Perone, Evan Calabrese, Julien Cohen-Adad
Gray matter (GM) tissue changes have been associated with a wide range of neurological disorders and was also recently found relevant as a biomarker for disability in amyotrophic l…
Analysis of the 2024 BraTS Meningioma Radiotherapy Planning Automated Segmentation Challenge
Dominic LaBella, Valeriia Abramova, Mehdi Astaraki +102
The 2024 Brain Tumor Segmentation Meningioma Radiotherapy (BraTS-MEN-RT) challenge aimed to advance automated segmentation algorithms using the largest known multi-institutional da…
The 2024 Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge: Glioma Segmentation on Post-treatment MRI
Maria Correia de Verdier, Rachit Saluja, Louis Gagnon +82
Gliomas are the most common malignant primary brain tumors in adults and one of the deadliest types of cancer. There are many challenges in treatment and monitoring due to the gene…
Analysis of the BraTS 2023 Intracranial Meningioma Segmentation Challenge
Dominic LaBella, Ujjwal Baid, Omaditya Khanna +119
We describe the design and results from the BraTS 2023 Intracranial Meningioma Segmentation Challenge. The BraTS Meningioma Challenge differed from prior BraTS Glioma challenges in…
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS-METS) Challenge 2023: Brain Metastasis Segmentation on Pre-treatment MRI
Ahmed W. Moawad, Anastasia Janas, Ujjwal Baid +229
The translation of AI-generated brain metastases (BM) segmentation into clinical practice relies heavily on diverse, high-quality annotated medical imaging datasets. The BraTS-METS…
The RSNA-ASNR-MICCAI BraTS 2021 Benchmark on Brain Tumor Segmentation and Radiogenomic Classification
Ujjwal Baid, Satyam Ghodasara, Suyash Mohan +100
The BraTS 2021 challenge celebrates its 10th anniversary and is jointly organized by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR)…
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge 2023: Brain MR Image Synthesis for Tumor Segmentation (BraSyn)
Hongwei Bran Li, Gian Marco Conte, Qingqiao Hu +62
Automated brain tumor segmentation methods have become well-established and reached performance levels offering clear clinical utility. These methods typically rely on four input m…
The ASNR-MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge 2023: Intracranial Meningioma
Dominic LaBella, Maruf Adewole, Michelle Alonso-Basanta +57
Meningiomas are the most common primary intracranial tumor in adults and can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Radiologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists,…
BraTS-PEDs: Results of the Multi-Consortium International Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2023
Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Nastaran Khalili, Xinyang Liu +77
Pediatric central nervous system tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children. The five-year survival rate for high-grade glioma in children is less than 20%.…
BraTS orchestrator : Democratizing and Disseminating state-of-the-art brain tumor image analysis
Florian Kofler, Marcel Rosier, Mehdi Astaraki +34
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) cluster of challenges has significantly advanced brain tumor image analysis by providing large, curated datasets and addressing clinically rele…
Agentic Automation of BT-RADS Scoring: End-to-End Multi-Agent System for Standardized Brain Tumor Follow-up Assessment
Mohamed Sobhi Jabal, Jikai Zhang, Dominic LaBella +6
The Brain Tumor Reporting and Data System (BT-RADS) standardizes post-treatment MRI response assessment in patients with diffuse gliomas but requires complex integration of imaging…