BoneMet: An Open Large-Scale Multi-Modal Murine Dataset for Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis Diagnosis and Prognosis

Breast cancer bone metastasis (BCBM) affects women’s health globally, calling for the development of effective diagnosis and prognosis solutions. While deep learning has exhibited impressive capacities across various healthcare domains, its applicability in BCBM diseases is consistently hindered by the lack of an open, large-scale, deep learning-ready dataset. As such, we introduce the Bone Metastasis (BoneMet) dataset, the first large-scale, publicly available, high-resolution medical resource, which is derived from a well-accepted murine BCBM model. The unique advantage of BoneMet over existing human datasets is repeated sequential scans per subject over the entire disease development phases. The dataset consists of over 67 terabytes of multi-modal medical data, including 2D X-ray images, 3D CT scans, and detailed biological data (e.g., medical records and bone quantitative analysis), collected from more than five hundreds mice spanning from 2019 to 2024. Our BoneMet dataset is well-organized into six components, i.e., RotationX-Ray, Recon-CT, Seg-CT, Regist-CT, RoI-CT, and MiceMediRec. We further show that BoneMet can be readily adopted to build versatile, large-scale AI models for managing BCBM diseases in terms of diagnosis using 2D or 3D images, prognosis of bone deterioration, and sparse-angle 3D reconstruction for safe long-term disease monitoring. Our preliminary results demonstrate that BoneMet has the potentials to jump-start the development and fine-tuning of AI-driven solutions prior to their applications to human patients. To facilitate its easy access and wide dissemination, we have created the BoneMet package, providing three APIs that enable researchers to (i) flexibly process and download the BoneMet data filtered by specific time frames; and (ii) develop and train large-scale AI models for precise BCBM diagnosis and prognosis. The BoneMet dataset is officially available on Hugging Face Datasets at https://huggingface.co/datasets/BoneMet/BoneMet. The BoneMet package is available on the Python Package Index (PyPI) at https://pypi.org/project/BoneMet. Code and tutorials are available at https://github.com/Tiankuo528/BoneMet.