Incidental or Screen-Detected Lung Nodules

This dataset, lung_nodules_detection_dt, is a data table containing clinical and radiological characteristics of 999 pulmonary nodules (up to 15mm in size) detected on routine chest CT scans from 3 UK academic centers.

Usage

data(lung_nodules_detection_dt)

Format

A data table with 999 observations and 8 variables:

sex

Patient sex (factor with 2 levels)

age

Patient age in years (numeric)

num.annotated

Number of annotated nodules (numeric)

location

Nodule location (factor with 6 levels)

spiculate

Spiculation status (factor with 2 levels)

smoke.status

Smoking history (factor with 5 levels)

diameter

Nodule diameter in mm (numeric)

malignant

Malignancy status (0=benign, 1=malignant) (numeric)

Source

Data taken from the R4HCR package version 0.1

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'lung_nodules_detection_dt' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the PulmoDataSets package. The suffix 'dt' indicates that this is a data table object. The original content has not been modified in any way.