NIH Chest X-ray Dataset

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Visualization of the NIH Chest X-ray Dataset in the Deep Lake UI

NIH Chest X-ray Dataset (ChestX-ray14)

What is NIH Chest X-ray Dataset?

The NIH ChestX-ray (ChestX-ray14) dataset contains 112,120 X-ray images of scans from 30,805 unique individuals with fourteen different thorax disease categories. These disease categories are text-mined from related radiological reports using NLP techniques. The publication will enable scientists to access the dataset and enhance their potential to train algorithms on how to identify and diagnose diseases which lead to physicians making better diagnostic judgments.

Download NIH Chest X-ray Dataset in Python

Instead of downloading the NIH ChestX-ray dataset in Python, you can effortlessly load it in Python via our Deep Lake open-source with just one line of code.

Load NIH Chest X-ray Dataset Training Subset in Python

				
					import deeplake
ds = deeplake.load('hub://activeloop/nih-chest-xray-train')

Load NIH Chest X-ray Dataset Testing Subset in Python

				
					import deeplake
ds = deeplake.load('hub://activeloop/nih-chest-xray-test')

NIH Chest X-ray Dataset Structure

NIH ChestX-ray Data Fields

images: tensor containing images of size 1024×1024.
findings: tensor containing labels that represent the disease category for the image.
boxes/bbox: tensor containing the bounding box coordinates.
boxes/finding: tensor containing the labels for the bounding box coordinates.
metadata/patient_id: tensor containing the patient id.
metadata/age: tensor containing the patient’s age.
metadata/patient_gender: tensor containing patient gender.
metadata/follow_up_num: tensor containing patient follow-up number.
metadata/view_position: tensor containing the view of the x-ray positions.
metadata/orig_img_w: tensor containing the image width.
metadata/orig_img_h: tensor containing the image height.
metadata/orig_img_pix_spacing_x: tensor containing original image pixel spacing across the x-axis.
metadata/orig_img_pix_spacing_y: tensor containing original image pixel spacing across the y-axis.

NIH Chest X-ray Data Splits

The NIH Chest X-ray training set is composed of 86,524 images and 15 classes including the ‘No Finding’ class.
The NIH Chest X-ray test set is composed of 25596 images and 15 classes including the ‘No Finding’ class.

How to use NIH Chest X-ray Dataset with PyTorch and TensorFlow in Python

Train a model on NIH Chest X-ray dataset with PyTorch in Python

Let’s use Deep Lake built-in PyTorch one-line dataloader to connect the data to the compute:

				
					dataloader = ds.pytorch(num_workers=0, batch_size=4, shuffle=False)

Train a model on the NIH Chest X-ray dataset with TensorFlow in Python

				
					dataloader = ds.tensorflow()

Additional Information about NIH Chest X-ray Dataset

NIH Chest X-ray Dataset Description

NIH Chest X-ray Dataset Curators

Ronald Summers

NIH Chest X-ray Dataset Licensing Information

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NIH Chest X-ray Dataset Citation Information

				
					@misc{summers2019nih,
  title={NIH Chest X-ray Dataset of 14 Common Thorax Disease Categories},
  author={Summers, RM},
  year={2019}
}