ImageCLEFmedTeachingFiles

Description

• the ImageCLEFmed teaching files are a collection of domain-specific photographs for the medical field, which was used in the medical ad hoc retrieval tasks of ImageCLEF from 2004 to 2007.
• This medical archive comprises in total 66,662 images and is in fact a composite of several medical sub-collections provided by independent medical institutions and hospitals that granted ImageCLEF permission to use their data sets in its evaluation campaign.
• The individual collections are:
  • Casimage
  • MIR
  • PEIR
  • PathoPic
  • MyPACS
  • CORI

Quality

Source

• Several medical sub-collections provided by independent medical institutions and hospitals

Ground Truth Annotation

• All images and annotations are stored in separate files, whereby the connections between the collections, cases, images and annotations are established in an XML file.
• In total it contains 66,662 images, 47,680 medical cases and 55,485 annotations in English, French and/or German

Features

Copyright Remarks

• Independent medical institutions and hospitals that granted ImageCLEF permission to use their data sets in its evaluation campaign.

Citation

• ImageCLEF Experimental Evaluation in Visual Information Retrieval - Henning Müller, Paul Clough, Thomas Deselaers and Barbara Caputo

External Links

• http://www.imageclef.org/
• http://www.casimage.com/
• http://www.mir.wustl.edu/
• http://peir.path.uab.edu/
• http://alf3.urz.unibas.ch/pathopic/
• http://www.mypacs.net/
• http://www.cori.org/