CT-RATE: 10,000+ Multimodal 3D Chest CT Scans and Radiology Reports

CT-RATE consists of 10,000 to 100,000 3D chest CT scans paired with corresponding radiology reports, released by Ibrahim Hamamci in 2024. This multimodal dataset facilitates the development of 3D medical foundation models through vision-language alignment. It supports diverse tasks including visual question answering, image-to-text generation, and zero-shot classification.

Use Cases

• Visual Question Answering (VQA) using 3D CT volumes and text-based queries
• Automated radiology report generation from 3D chest CT scans
• Zero-shot classification of medical conditions based on vision-language alignment

Strengths

• Scale of 10,000 to 100,000 3D CT records
• Paired vision-language data for 3D medical imaging
• Expert-level radiology reports associated with each scan

Limitations

• Restricted to chest anatomy, limiting generalizability to other body regions
• Non-commercial license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) restricts industrial application
• Geographic bias toward the United States

Provenance

Source

Arxiv 2403.17834

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 according to platform metadata.

Geography

United States