Table 1 Medical imaging datasets that can be employed for testing optimization algorithms.

From: Comprehensive evaluation of optimization algorithms for medical image segmentation

Optimization algorithms

Definitions

Applications

Ref.

ISIC

International Skin Imaging

Collaboration Dataset

Digital skin imaging for

skin cancer

29

BraTS

Brain Tumor Image

Segmentation Dataset

Multimodal brain MRI scans

30

DDSM

Digital Database for

Screening Mammography

Breast cancer screening

31

ACRIN-FMISO Dataset

The Cancer Imaging Archive

PET/CT images

32

CHUM

(Cardiac Atlas Project)

Dataset

heart MRI and CT

33

DRIVE

Digital Retinal Images for

Vessel Extraction Dataset

Retinal images for blood

vessel segmentation

34

MICCAI

Multimodal Brain Tumor

Image Segmentation

Benchmark

Multimodal MRI scans for

brain tumor segmentation

30

CIA

Cancer Imaging

Chest imaging/ COVID-19-

positive population.

35

TCIA Dataset

Datasets of cancer imaging

studies

PET scans

36

LIDC-IDRI

The Lung Image Database

Consortium and Image

Database Resource

Initiative Dataset

lung CT images for the

detection and diagnosis of

lung nodules

37