A large-scale CT dataset for lumbar vertebral substructure segmentation
摘要
Lumbar vertebral substructure segmentation on CT is important for anatomical quantification, surgical planning, and spine imaging biomarker research, but publicly available voxel-level annotations of lumbar subregions remain limited. Here, we present LumbarSeg-6K, a large-scale, multi-source CT dataset comprising 5,952 cropped single-vertebra lumbar volumes derived from VerSe, the CT-COLON subset of CTSpine1K, and LumASe. Each vertebra was annotated for seven anatomical substructures: vertebral body, pedicle, lamina, superior articular process, inferior articular process, transverse process, and spinous process. All data were harmonized under a unified labeling protocol using semi-automated presegmentation, manual refinement, multi-tier expert review, and quality control. Annotation reliability was assessed through an inter-observer consistency analysis, and dataset usability was further evaluated using representative source-stratified segmentation experiments. LumbarSeg-6K is intended to support reproducible research on lumbar vertebral substructure segmentation, anatomical measurement, surgical-planning algorithms, and related CT-based spine applications.