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A large annotated cervical cytology images dataset for AI models to aid cervical cancer screening.

Xuan Zhang, Jianxin Ji, Qi Zhang, Xiaohan Zheng, Kaiyuan Ge, Menglei Hua, Lei Cao, Liuying Wang

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Xuan ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China.
Jianxin JiDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China.
Qi ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China.
Xiaohan ZhengDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China.
Kaiyuan GeDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China.
Menglei HuaDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China.
Lei CaoDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China. caolei@hrbmu.edu.cn.
Liuying WangDepartment of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China. wangliuying@hrbmu.edu.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 82273734National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 82304250
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Abstract

Accurate detection of abnormal cervical cells in cervical cancer screening increases the chances of timely treatment. The vigorous development of deep learning methods has established a new ecosystem for cervical cancer screening, which has been proven to effectively improve efficiency and accuracy of cell detection in many studies. Although many contributing studies have been conducted, limited public datasets and time-consuming collection efforts may hinder the generalization performance of those advanced models and restrict further research. Through this work, we seek to provide a large dataset of cervical cytology images with exhaustive annotations of abnormal cervical cells. The dataset consists of 8,037 images derived from 129 scanned Thinprep cytologic test (TCT) slide images. Furthermore, we performed evaluation experiments to demonstrate the performance of representative models trained on our dataset in abnormal cells detection.

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Early Detection of CancerUterine Cervical NeoplasmsCervix UteriDeep LearningFemaleHumans

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