- Liew, Sook-Lei;
- Anglin, Julia M;
- Banks, Nick W;
- Sondag, Matt;
- Ito, Kaori L;
- Kim, Hosung;
- Chan, Jennifer;
- Ito, Joyce;
- Jung, Connie;
- Khoshab, Nima;
- Lefebvre, Stephanie;
- Nakamura, William;
- Saldana, David;
- Schmiesing, Allie;
- Tran, Cathy;
- Vo, Danny;
- Ard, Tyler;
- Heydari, Panthea;
- Kim, Bokkyu;
- Aziz-Zadeh, Lisa;
- Cramer, Steven C;
- Liu, Jingchun;
- Soekadar, Surjo;
- Nordvik, Jan-Egil;
- Westlye, Lars T;
- Wang, Junping;
- Winstein, Carolee;
- Yu, Chunshui;
- Ai, Lei;
- Koo, Bonhwang;
- Craddock, R Cameron;
- Milham, Michael;
- Lakich, Matthew;
- Pienta, Amy;
- Stroud, Alison
Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability worldwide, with up to two-thirds of individuals experiencing long-term disabilities. Large-scale neuroimaging studies have shown promise in identifying robust biomarkers (e.g., measures of brain structure) of long-term stroke recovery following rehabilitation. However, analyzing large rehabilitation-related datasets is problematic due to barriers in accurate stroke lesion segmentation. Manually-traced lesions are currently the gold standard for lesion segmentation on T1-weighted MRIs, but are labor intensive and require anatomical expertise. While algorithms have been developed to automate this process, the results often lack accuracy. Newer algorithms that employ machine-learning techniques are promising, yet these require large training datasets to optimize performance. Here we present ATLAS (Anatomical Tracings of Lesions After Stroke), an open-source dataset of 304 T1-weighted MRIs with manually segmented lesions and metadata. This large, diverse dataset can be used to train and test lesion segmentation algorithms and provides a standardized dataset for comparing the performance of different segmentation methods. We hope ATLAS release 1.1 will be a useful resource to assess and improve the accuracy of current lesion segmentation methods.