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This paper introduces the BraTS-GLI Anatomy-Lesion resource, a comprehensive dataset designed to enhance glioma MRI segmentation by providing unified anatomy-lesion labels that include both tumor subregions and coexisting white matter hyperintensities (WMH). By systematically addressing the limitations of existing datasets, it offers 1,251 labeled sets organized into purified and extended subsets, which significantly improve foreground supervision for segmentation tasks. Validation results indicate that WMH-aware supervision not only maintains healthy-tissue segmentation performance but also enhances sensitivity to coexisting lesions, thereby reducing label noise in training.
WMH-aware supervision can significantly boost lesion detection while preserving healthy tissue segmentation, addressing a critical gap in glioma MRI datasets.
Existing BraTS-GLI datasets provide a widely used benchmark for adult glioma MRI segmentation, but their task definition focuses on tumor subregions and does not systematically represent coexisting white matter hyperintensities (WMH). In joint segmentation settings, such unlabeled abnormalities introduce task-specific label noise by treating pathological regions as normal tissue. To address this limitation, we introduce BraTS-GLI Anatomy-Lesion, a controlled-access, labels-only derived resource built from the BraTS 2023-GLI training cohort. The resource provides 1,251 unified eight-class anatomy-lesion label sets aligned with the original four-modal MRI cases, including image-repair labels for 116 cases requiring repaired imaging inputs. The cohort is organized into a 394-case purified subset and an 857-case extended subset, with case-level metadata covering label source, image-repair requirements, quality-control status, access conditions, checksums, and release boundaries. Compared with the original BraTS-GLI annotations, the resource substantially expands foreground supervision by incorporating healthy brain tissues and previously unlabeled coexisting abnormalities within a unified label space. A validation study using MedNeXt and T1/FLAIR inputs suggests that WMH-aware supervision preserves healthy-tissue segmentation performance across both in-domain GLI and external WMH datasets, while improving sensitivity to coexisting lesions relative to noisy-control training. The resource is intended for scientific research and supports joint anatomy-lesion supervision, label-noise analysis, and reproducible evaluation. Data are available at https://www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn75210889/wiki/, and code is available at https://github.com/xyx200/brats-gli-anatomy-lesion-code. The data resource DOI is https://doi.org/10.7303/SYN75210889.
