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A Cytology Dataset for Early Detection of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Garima Jain, Sanghamitra Pati, Mona Duggal, Amit Sethi, Abhijeet Patil, Gururaj Malekar, Nilesh Kowe, Jitender Kumar, Jatin Kashyap, Divyajeet Rout, Deepali, Hitesh, Nishi Halduniya, Sharat Kumar, Heena Tabassum, Rupinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sucheta Devi Khuraijam, Sushma Khuraijam, Sharmila Laishram, Simmi Kharb, Sunita Singh, K. Swaminadtan, Ranjana Solanki, Deepika Hemranjani, Shashank Nath Singh, Uma Handa, Manveen Kaur, Surinder Singhal, Shivani Kalhan, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Ravi. S, D. Pavithra, Sunil Kumar Mahto, Arvind Kumar, Deepali Tirkey, Saurav Banerjee, L. Sreelakshmi
Oral squamous cell carcinoma OSCC is a major global health burden, particularly in several regions across Asia, Africa, and South America, where it accounts for a significant proportion of cancer cases. Early detection dramatically improves outcomes, with stage I cancers achieving up to 90 percent survival. However, traditional diagnosis based on histopathology has limited accessibility in low-resource settings because it is invasive, resource-intensive, and reliant on expert pathologists. On the other hand, oral cytology of brush biopsy offers a minimally invasive and lower cost alternative, provided that the remaining challenges, inter observer variability and unavailability of expert pathologists can be addressed using artificial intelligence. Development and validation of robust AI solutions requires access to large, labeled, and multi-source datasets to train high capacity models that generalize across domain shifts. We introduce the first large and multicenter oral cytology dataset, comprising annotated slides stained with Papanicolaou(PAP) and May-Grunwald-Giemsa(MGG) protocols, collected from ten tertiary medical centers in India. The dataset is labeled and annotated by expert pathologists for cellular anomaly classification and detection, is designed to advance AI driven diagnostic methods. By filling the gap in publicly available oral cytology datasets, this resource aims to enhance automated detection, reduce diagnostic errors, and improve early OSCC diagnosis in resource-constrained settings, ultimately contributing to reduced mortality and better patient outcomes worldwide.
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