Hyper-Kvasir Computer Vision Project

Overview This is the largest Gastrointestinal dataset generously provided by Simula Research Laboratory in Norway

You can read their research paper here in Nature

In total, the dataset contains 10,662 labeled images stored using the JPEG format. The images can be found in the images folder. The classes, which each of the images belong to, correspond to the folder they are stored in (e.g., the ’polyp’ folder contains all polyp images, the ’barretts’ folder contains all images of Barrett’s esophagus, etc.). Each class-folder is located in a subfolder describing the type of finding, which again is located in a folder describing wheter it is a lower GI or upper GI finding. The number of images per class are not balanced, which is a general challenge in the medical field due to the fact that some findings occur more often than others. This adds an additional challenge for researchers, since methods applied to the data should also be able to learn from a small amount of training data. The labeled images represent 23 different classes of findings.

The data is collected during real gastro- and colonoscopy examinations at a Hospital in Norway and partly labeled by experienced gastrointestinal endoscopists.

Use Cases

"Artificial intelligence is currently a hot topic in medicine. The fact that medical data is often sparse and hard to obtain due to legal restrictions and lack of medical personnel to perform the cumbersome and tedious labeling of the data, leads to technical limitations. In this respect, we share the Hyper-Kvasir dataset, which is the largest image and video dataset from the gastrointestinal tract available today."

"We have used the labeled data to research the classification and segmentation of GI findings using both computer vision and ML approaches to potentially be used in live and post-analysis of patient examinations. Areas of potential utilization are analysis, classification, segmentation, and retrieval of images and videos with particular findings or particular properties from the computer science area. The labeled data can also be used for teaching and training in medical education. Having expert gastroenterologists providing the ground truths over various findings, HyperKvasir provides a unique and diverse learning set for future clinicians. Moreover, the unlabeled data is well suited for semi-supervised and unsupervised methods, and, if even more ground truth data is needed, the users of the data can use their own local medical experts to provide the needed labels. Finally, the videos can in addition be used to simulate live endoscopies feeding the video into the system like it is captured directly from the endoscopes enable developers to do image classification."

Borgli, H., Thambawita, V., Smedsrud, P.H. et al. HyperKvasir, a comprehensive multi-class image and video dataset for gastrointestinal endoscopy. Sci Data 7, 283 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00622-y

Using this Dataset

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