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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Advancing Precision: A Comprehensive Review of MRI Segmentation Datasets from BraTS Challenges (2012-2025).

Beatrice Bonato, Loris Nanni, Alessandra Bertoldo

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Beatrice BonatoDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Giovanni Gradenigo 6b, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Loris NanniDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Giovanni Gradenigo 6b, 35131 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3502-7209
Alessandra BertoldoDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Giovanni Gradenigo 6b, 35131 Padova, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenges have significantly advanced research in brain tumor segmentation and related medical imaging tasks. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the BraTS datasets from 2012 to 2024, examining their evolution, challenges, and contributions to MRI-based brain tumor segmentation. Over the years, the datasets have grown in size, complexity, and scope, incorporating refined pre-processing and annotation protocols. By synthesizing insights from over a decade of BraTS challenges, this review elucidates the progression of dataset curation, highlights the impact on state-of-the-art segmentation approaches, and identifies persisting limitations and future directions. Crucially, it provides researchers, clinicians, and industry stakeholders with a single, in-depth resource on the evolution and practical utility of BraTS datasets-demonstrating year-by-year improvements in the field and discussing their potential for enabling robust, clinically relevant segmentation methods that can further advance precision medicine. Additionally, an overview of the upcoming BraTS 2025 Challenge-currently in planning-is presented, highlighting its expanded focus across further clinical needs.

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Brain NeoplasmsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingAlgorithmsBrainHumansPrecision Medicinebrain tumor segmentationBraTS challengesclinical applicationsdataset evolutiongliomaMRI imagingprecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID40292960
PMCPMC11945730

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