Skin region images extracted from 3D total body photographs for lesion detection
Artificial intelligence has significantly advanced skin cancer diagnosis by enabling rapid and accurate detection of malignant lesions. In this domain, most publicly available image datasets consist of single, isolated skin lesions positioned at the centre of the image. While these lesion-centric datasets have been fundamental for developing diagnostic algorithms, they lack the context of the surrounding skin, which is critical for improving lesion detection. The iToBoS dataset was created to address this challenge. It includes 16,954 images of skin regions from 100 participants, captured using 3D total body photography. Each image roughly corresponds to a 7 × 9 cm section of skin with all suspicious lesions annotated using bounding boxes. Additionally, the dataset provides metadata such as anatomical location, age group, and sun damage score for each image. This dataset was designed with the aim of facilitating the training and benchmarking of algorithms, in order to enable early detection of skin cancer and deployment of this technology in non-clinical environments.
Authors
- Núria Ferrera
- B D'Alessandro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0050-401X)
- G. Szabó (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3409-5357)
- Clare Primiero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2944-0013)
- Gisele Gargantini Rezze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-4634)
- Hayat Rajani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2541-2787)
- H. Peter Soyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4770-561X)
- Sana Nazari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4879-1820)
- Anup Saha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2268-3642)
- Adam Mothershaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0056-8187)
- Josep Malvehy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6998-914X)
- Serena Bonin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7349-0296)
- Hassan Hayat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0979-5623)
- Rafael García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2775-2010)
- Laura Serra‐García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-4651)
- Iris Zalaudek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7878-4955)
- Séraphin Gaborit
- Balázs Pataki
- Joseph Adeola
- Robert Voskanyan
Institutions
- University of Trieste (IT)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Universitat de Girona (ES)
- Princess Alexandra Hospital (AU)
- Ospedale Maggiore (IT)
- Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (ES)
- HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control (HU)
- Value Chain Lab (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Canfield Scientific (United States) (US)
- Consorci Institut D'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi I Sunyer (ES)
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- International School of Management (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Scientific Data
- Published
- 2025-08-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05483-x
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.05
Funders
- European Commission