MedMNIST v2: A Large-Scale Lightweight Benchmark for 2D and 3D Biomedical Image Classification

Note: We recommend to download from Zenodo official link, which is integrated with our code. However, if you find download problem, you can also use this mirror link from Google Drive. 

Abstract

We introduce MedMNIST v2, a large-scale MNIST-like collection of standardized biomedical images, including 12 datasets for 2D and 6 datasets for 3D. All images are pre-processed into 28x28 (2D) or 28x28x28 (3D) with the corresponding classification labels, so that no background knowledge is required for users. Covering primary data modalities in biomedical images, MedMNIST v2 is designed to perform classification on lightweight 2D and 3D images with various data scales (from 100 to 100,000) and diverse tasks (binary/multi-class, ordinal regression and multi-label). The resulting dataset, consisting of 708,069 2D images and 10,214 3D images in total, could support numerous research / educational purposes in biomedical image analysis, computer vision and machine learning. We benchmark several baseline methods on MedMNIST v2, including 2D / 3D neural networks and open-source / commercial AutoML tools. The data and code are publicly available at https://medmnist.com/.

Note: This dataset is NOT intended for clinical use.

We recommend our official code to download, parse and use the MedMNIST dataset:

pip install medmnist

Citation

If you find this project useful, please cite both v1 and v2 paper as:

Jiancheng Yang, Rui Shi, Donglai Wei, Zequan Liu, Lin Zhao, Bilian Ke, Hanspeter Pfister, Bingbing Ni. "MedMNIST v2: A Large-Scale Lightweight Benchmark for 2D and 3D Biomedical Image Classification". arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14795, 2021.

Jiancheng Yang, Rui Shi, Bingbing Ni. "MedMNIST Classification Decathlon: A Lightweight AutoML Benchmark for Medical Image Analysis". IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2021.

or using bibtex:

@article{medmnistv2,
    title={MedMNIST v2: A Large-Scale Lightweight Benchmark for 2D and 3D Biomedical Image Classification},
    author={Yang, Jiancheng and Shi, Rui and Wei, Donglai and Liu, Zequan and Zhao, Lin and Ke, Bilian and Pfister, Hanspeter and Ni, Bingbing},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14795},
    year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{medmnistv1,
    title={MedMNIST Classification Decathlon: A Lightweight AutoML Benchmark for Medical Image Analysis},
    author={Yang, Jiancheng and Shi, Rui and Ni, Bingbing},
    booktitle={IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)},
    pages={191--195},
    year={2021}
}

Please also cite the corresponding paper(s) of source data if you use any subset of MedMNIST as per the description on the project website.

License

The dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

The code is under Apache-2.0 License.