Muscle and adipose tissue segmentations at the third cervical vertebral level in patients with head and neck cancer

Kareem A. Wahid, Brennan Olson, Rishab Jain, Aaron J. Grossberg, Dina El-Habashy, Cem Dede, Vivian Salama, Moamen Abobakr, Abdallah S.R. Mohamed, Renjie He, Joel Jaskari, Jaakko Sahlsten, Kimmo Kaski, Clifton D. Fuller, Mohamed A. Naser

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Abstract

The accurate determination of sarcopenia is critical for disease management in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC). Quantitative determination of sarcopenia is currently dependent on manually-generated segmentations of skeletal muscle derived from computed tomography (CT) cross-sectional imaging. This has prompted the increasing utilization of machine learning models for automated sarcopenia determination. However, extant datasets currently do not provide the necessary manually-generated skeletal muscle segmentations at the C3 vertebral level needed for building these models. In this data descriptor, a set of 394 HNC patients were selected from The Cancer Imaging Archive, and their skeletal muscle and adipose tissue was manually segmented at the C3 vertebral level using sliceOmatic. Subsequently, using publicly disseminated Python scripts, we generated corresponding segmentations files in Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative format. In addition to segmentation data, additional clinical demographic data germane to body composition analysis have been retrospectively collected for these patients. These data are a valuable resource for studying sarcopenia and body composition analysis in patients with HNC.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number470
JournalScientific Data
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Information Systems
  • Education
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Library and Information Sciences

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