Environmental Microorganism Dataset (EMDS) has been just released
Introduction
The EMDS dataset contains environmental microorganism (EM) images downloaded from the Internet, associated with corresponding binary ground truth images. In total there are 21 classes of EMs. Each class is represented with 20 EM images with the corresponding binary ground truth bitmap. In ground truth images, EMs are marked with white (value: 255) and the background is marked with black (value: 0).
List of EMs:
| class 1 | Actinophrys | class 8 | Paramecium | class 15 | Keratella Quadrala |
| class 2 | Arcella | class 9 | Rotifera | class 16 | Euglena |
| class 3 | Aspidisca | class 10 | Vorticella | class 17 | Gymnodinium |
| class 4 | Codosiga | class 11 | Noctiluca | class 18 | Gonyaulax |
| class 5 | Colpoda | class 12 | Ceratium | class 19 | Phacus |
| class 6 | Epistylis | class 13 | Stentor | class 20 | Stylongchia |
| class 7 | Euglypha | class 14 | Siprostomum | class 21 | Synchaeta |
Usage
The EMDS dataset can be used to test Image segmentation, feature extraction, classification approaches, etc. Copyright of the images in the dataset fully belongs to their owners. In no event, shall owners be liable for any incidents, or damages caused by the direct or indirect usage of the dataset. The dataset should be only used for non-commercial research and/or educational purposes.
Download
The EMDS dataset can be downloaded from this link: EMDS-4.rar (110MB). If you use the dataset in your publications, please cite it, using this BibTex file.
