malaria

The Malaria dataset contains a total of 27,558 cell images with equal instances of parasitized and uninfected cells from the thin blood smear slide images of segmented cells.

Split Examples
'train' 27,558
  • Feature structure:
FeaturesDict({
    'image': Image(shape=(None, None, 3), dtype=uint8),
    'label': ClassLabel(shape=(), dtype=int64, num_classes=2),
})
  • Feature documentation:
Feature Class Shape Dtype Description
FeaturesDict
image Image (None, None, 3) uint8
label ClassLabel int64

Visualization

  • Citation:
@article{rajaraman2018pre,
  title={Pre-trained convolutional neural networks as feature extractors toward
  improved malaria parasite detection in thin blood smear images},
  author={Rajaraman, Sivaramakrishnan and Antani, Sameer K and Poostchi, Mahdieh
  and Silamut, Kamolrat and Hossain, Md A and Maude, Richard J and Jaeger,
  Stefan and Thoma, George R},
  journal={PeerJ},
  volume={6},
  pages={e4568},
  year={2018},
  publisher={PeerJ Inc.}
}