Published June 15, 2026 | Version v1

TongueBench Dataset

  • 1. Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
  • 2. Cornell University
  • 3. ROR icon Sun Yat-sen University

Description

TongueBench Dataset is a quality-corrected tongue image dataset containing 2,694 tongue photographs for research in tongue diagnosis and medical artificial intelligence.

The dataset was curated through a structured quality-control workflow to improve image consistency and release readiness. The current public release provides the image collection together with file-level metadata for archiving, indexing, and reuse.

TongueBench Dataset is associated with the paper “TongueBench: Performance of Prompt-Engineered Large Multimodal Models in Traditional Chinese Medicine Tongue Diagnosis.” If you use this dataset, please cite the associated paper.

This study was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (No.2025YFF0523900) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82274411).

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Additional details

Dates

Collected
2025-07/2025-10
Tongue images collected from clinical sources
Created
2025-11
TongueSet-2694 dataset constructed
Updated
2026-02
Quality correction and verification completed

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/mengyiha/TongueBench-Open
Programming language
Python