A brain MRI dataset and baseline evaluations for tumor recurrence prediction after Gamma Knife radiotherapy

Prediction and identification of tumor recurrence are critical for brain cancer treatment design and planning. Stereotactic radiation therapy delivered with Gamma Knife has been developed as one of the common treatment approaches combined with others by delivering radiation that targets accurately on the tumor while not affecting nearby healthy tissues. In this paper, we release a fully publicly available brain cancer MRI dataset and the companion Gamma Knife treatment planning and follow-up data for the purpose of tumor recurrence prediction. The dataset contains original patient MRI images, radiation therapy data, and clinical information. Lesion annotations are provided, and inclusive preprocessing steps have been specified to simplify the usage of this dataset. A baseline framework based on a convolutional neural network is proposed companionably with basic evaluations. The release of this dataset will contribute to the future development of automated brain tumor recurrence prediction algorithms and promote the clinical implementations associated with the computer vision field. The dataset is made publicly available on The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) (10.7937/xb6d-py67).