Sunnybrook Cardiac Data

The Sunnybrook Cardiac Data (SCD), also known as the 2009 Cardiac MR Left Ventricle Segmentation Challenge data, consist of 45 cine-MRI images from a mixed of patients and pathologies: healthy, hypertrophy, heart failure with infarction and heart failure without infarction. Subset of this data set was first used in the automated myocardium segmentation challenge from short-axis MRI, held by a MICCAI workshop in 2009. The whole complete data set is now available in the CAP database with public domain license.

There are four pathological groups in this data set, which were classified based on (K Alfakih et al., JMRI 2003) paper, i.e.:

Heart failure with infarction (HF-I) group had ejection fraction (EF) < 40% and evidence of late gadolinium (Gd) enhancement. Heart failure without infarction (HF) group had EF < 40% and no late Gd enhancement. LV hypertrophy (HYP) group had normal EF (> 55%) and a ratio of left ventricular (LV) mass over body surface area is > 83 g/m2. Healthy (N) group had EF > 55% and no hypertrophy.