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ArticleScientific data2025

A comprehensive and easy-to-use multi-domain multi-task medical imaging meta-dataset.

Stefano Woerner, Arthur Jaques, Christian F Baumgartner

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors.

Stefano WoernerCluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science", University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. stefano@woerner.eu.
Arthur JaquesCluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science", University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Christian F BaumgartnerCluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science", University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) EXC number 2064/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the field of medical image analysis has undergone a transformative shift with the integration of machine learning techniques, the main challenge of these techniques is often the scarcity of large, diverse, and well-annotated datasets. Medical images vary in format, size, and other parameters and therefore require extensive preprocessing and standardization, for usage in machine learning. Addressing these challenges, we introduce the Medical Imaging Meta-Dataset (MedIMeta), a novel multi-domain, multi-task meta-dataset. MedIMeta contains 19 medical imaging datasets spanning 10 different domains and encompassing 54 distinct medical tasks, all of which are standardized to the same format and readily usable in PyTorch or other ML frameworks. We perform a technical validation of MedIMeta, demonstrating its utility through fully supervised and cross-domain few-shot learning baselines.

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Diagnostic ImagingImage Processing, Computer-AssistedHumansMachine Learning

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PMID40253434
PMCPMC12009356

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