Spinal-Multiple-Myeloma-SEG: A Dual-Energy CT Dataset Extended with Trabecular Bone Segmentation of Lumbar Vertebrae
Michal Nohel1,2, Vlastimil Valek3,4, Katerina Krejci1, Roman Jakubicek1, Marek Dostal3,5, Jiri Chmelik1
1: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, 2: Department of Deputy Director for Science and Research, University Hospital & Faculty of Medicine, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 3: Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, 4: Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 5: Department of Biophysics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Publication date: 2026/09/21
https://doi.org/10.59275/j.melba.2026-d741
Abstract
We present an extension of the publicly available Spinal-Multiple-Myeloma-SEG dataset, a dual-energy CT imaging resource for multiple myeloma research. The purpose of this dataset is to enable voxel-wise analysis of vertebral bone microstructure by adding expert-validated segmentation of the trabecular compartment of lumbar vertebrae. The dataset consists of 72 dual-energy CT examinations from 67 adult patients (mean age 66 years, range 48–85; 36% female), acquired retrospectively using a dual-layer dual-energy CT system. It includes conventional CT, virtual monoenergetic images, and calcium-suppressed reconstructions, along with structured clinical metadata. The data are provided in DICOM format, while segmentation masks are available in both NIfTI and DICOM-SEG formats. The primary intended applications include trabecular bone segmentation, quantitative bone mineral density-related analysis, and development of deep learning models for vertebral anatomy and disease-affected bone structures in multiple myeloma. The dataset supports both segmentation and multimodal learning tasks in pathological and non-pathological bone. Initial trabecular segmentation masks were generated using a pretrained nnU-Net model and subsequently refined through manual expert correction and radiological quality control, ensuring anatomical consistency. The original dataset is publicly available via TCIA (https://doi.org/10.7937/k4qv-hh78), while the trabecular segmentation extension (Version 2) is released through Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21628232) under the CC BY 4.0 license. The Zenodo release provides immediate public access to the segmentation masks and will be additionally incorporated into the official TCIA collection after completion of the curation process.
Keywords
Multiple myeloma · Dual-energy CT · Segmentation · Trabecular bone segmentation · Lumbar vertebrae · Public dataset · Spinal-Multiple-Myeloma-Seg · Medical image analysis
Bibtex
@article{melba:2026:047:nohel,
title = "Spinal-Multiple-Myeloma-SEG: A Dual-Energy CT Dataset Extended with Trabecular Bone Segmentation of Lumbar Vertebrae",
author = "Nohel, Michal and Valek, Vlastimil and Krejci, Katerina and Jakubicek, Roman and Dostal, Marek and Chmelik, Jiri",
journal = "Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging",
volume = "2026",
issue = "Special Issue on MICCAI Open Data 2026",
year = "2026",
pages = "854--861",
issn = "2766-905X",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.59275/j.melba.2026-d741",
url = "https://melba-journal.org/2026:047"
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
AU - Nohel, Michal
AU - Valek, Vlastimil
AU - Krejci, Katerina
AU - Jakubicek, Roman
AU - Dostal, Marek
AU - Chmelik, Jiri
PY - 2026
TI - Spinal-Multiple-Myeloma-SEG: A Dual-Energy CT Dataset Extended with Trabecular Bone Segmentation of Lumbar Vertebrae
T2 - Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging
VL - 2026
IS - Special Issue on MICCAI Open Data 2026
SP - 854
EP - 861
SN - 2766-905X
DO - https://doi.org/10.59275/j.melba.2026-d741
UR - https://melba-journal.org/2026:047
ER -