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

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. Yang, Jiancheng, et al. "MedMNIST v2-A large-scale lightweight benchmark for 2D and 3D biomedical image classification." Scientific Data, 2023.

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={Scientific Data},
    volume={10},
    number={1},
    pages={41},
    year={2023},
    publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

@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 MedMNIST dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), except DermaMNIST under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

The code is under Apache-2.0 License.

Changelog

v2.1 (this repository): We have fixed the mistake in the file of NoduleMNIST3D (i.e., nodulemnist3d.npz). More details in this issue.

v2.0: Initial repository of MedMNIST v2, add 6 datasets for 3D and 2 for 2D. 

v1.0: Initial repository of MedMNIST v1, 10 datasets for 2D.