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Inspire Datasets

INSPIRE DATASETS

INSPIRE stands for Iowa Normative Set for Processing Images of the REtina

These datasets can be used, free of charge, for research and educational purposes, until further notice. Copying, redistribution, and any commercial use is prohibited. The use of the datasets is restricted to those individuals or organizations that obtained the dataset directly from this website. Any researcher reporting on any of these datasets, including newly developed methods or algorithms, must cite at least one of the stated journal papers.

Currently there are two INSPIRE-datasets


INSPIRE-stereo

30 stereo color images of the optic disc including a depth reference standard based on spectral domain Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). The images are from as many patients with glaucoma. INSPIRE-stereo is the only medical stereo image dataset with objective depth ground truth, and the only stereo image dataset that has a non-telemetry based, continuous, ground truth.

The dataset is described in more detail in our paper, which you will cite if you use the dataset in any way:

Li Tang, Mona K. Garvin, Kyungmoo Lee, Wallace L. M. Alward, Young H. Kwon, Michael D. Abràmoff. Robust Multi-Scale Stereo Matching from Fundus Images with Radiometric Differences, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 2011 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21464502.

Here you can download the INSPIRE-stereo dataset including the reference standard (ground truth), as a compressed file of 80MB.

Fill out the form (linked here) with your email address and you will receive a link to the actual data.


INSPIRE-AVR

INSPIRE-AVR with 40 color images of the vessels and optic disc and a arterio-venous ratio reference standard. The reference standard is the average of the assessment of two experts using IVAN (a semi-automated computer program developed by the University of Wisconsin, Madison,WI, USA) on the images.

The dataset is described in more detail in our paper, which you will cite if you use the dataset in any way:

Niemeijer M, Xu X, Dumitrescu A, Gupta P, van Ginneken B, Folk J, Abramoff M. Automated Measurement of the Arteriolar-To-Venular Width Ratio in Digital Color Fundus Photographs. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2011 Jun 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21690008.

Here you can download the INSPIRE-AVR dataset including the reference standard (ground truth), as a compressed file of 80MB.

Fill out the form (linked here) with your email address and you will receive a link to the actual data.


THE TROMSO SUBSET

The Tromso Study consists of six surveys that have been conducted in the municipality of Tromso from 1974 to 2008. This population study includes 40051 subjects in total who have attended at least one of the six surveys. There are currently some 100 different ongoing research projects based on the data from the consecutive six surveys. [Jacobsen BK, Eggen AE, Mathiesen EB, Wilsgaard T, Njølstad I. Cohort profile: The Tromso Study. Int J Epidemiol. 2012 Aug;41(4):961-7. Epub 2011 Mar 21. PubMed PMID: 21422063; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3429870.]

For our paper "Retinal Vessel Width Measurement at Branchings using An Improved Electric Field Theory-Based Graph Approach," Tromso has kindly allowed us to share a subset of 50 de-identified images of 50 subjects. We are grateful to the Tromso study team for making this important resource available to the retinal images analysis research community.

The TROMSO Cohort subset is not yet available for download.

Fill out the form (linked here) with your email address and you will be notified when the dataset is available for download.