Fashion-MNIST is a dataset comprising of 28×28 grayscale images of 70,000 fashion products from 10 categories, with 7,000 images per category. The training set has 60,000 images and the test set has 10,000 images. Fashion-MNIST shares the same image size, data format and the structure of training and testing splits with the original MNIST.

The not-MNIST dataset is a dataset of handwritten digits. It is a challenging dataset that can be used for machine learning and artificial intelligence research. The dataset consists of 100,000 images of handwritten digits. The images are divided into a training set of 60,000 images and a test set of 40,000 images. The images are drawn from a variety of fonts and styles, making them more challenging than the MNIST dataset. The images are 28x28 pixels in size and are grayscale. The dataset is available under the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication license.

The MNIST database (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database) is a large collection of handwritten digits. It has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples. It is a subset of a larger NIST Special Database 3 (digits written by employees of the United States Census Bureau) and Special Database 1 (digits written by high school students) which contain monochrome images of handwritten digits. The digits have been size-normalized and centered in a fixed-size image. The original black and white (bilevel) images from NIST were size normalized to fit in a 20x20 pixel box while preserving their aspect ratio. The resulting images contain grey levels as a result of the anti-aliasing technique used by the normalization algorithm. the images were centered in a 28x28 image by computing the center of mass of the pixels, and translating the image so as to position this point at the center of the 28x28 field.

The MNIST database of handwritten digits, available from this page, has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples. It is a subset of a larger set available from NIST. The digits have been size-normalized and centered in a fixed-size image. It is a good database for people who want to try learning techniques and pattern recognition methods on real-world data while spending minimal efforts on preprocessing and formatting. The original black and white (bilevel) images from NIST were size normalized to fit in a 20x20 pixel box while preserving their aspect ratio. The resulting images contain grey levels as a result of the anti-aliasing technique used by the normalization algorithm. the images were centered in a 28x28 image by computing the center of mass of the pixels, and translating the image so as to position this point at the center of the 28x28 field. With some classification methods (particuarly template-based methods, such as SVM and K-nearest neighbors),

The MNIST database of handwritten digits.

To use this dataset:

import tensorflow_datasets as tfds

ds = tfds.load('mnist', split='train')
for ex in ds.take(4):
 print(ex)

See the guide for more informations on tensorflow_datasets.

https://storage.googleapis.com/tfds-data/visualization/fig/mnist-3.0.1.png" alt="Visualization" width="500px">

The MNIST database (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database) is a large database of handwritten digits that is commonly used for training various image processing systems. The database is also widely used for training and testing in the field of machine learning. It was created by "re-mixing" the samples from NIST's original datasets. The creators felt that since NIST's training dataset was taken from American Census Bureau employees, while the testing dataset was taken from American high school students, it was not well-suited for machine learning experiments. Furthermore, the black and white images from NIST were normalized to fit into a 28x28 pixel bounding box and anti-aliased, which introduced grayscale levels.

Yann LeCun, Courant Institute, NYU Corinna Cortes, Google Labs, New York Christopher J.C. Burges, Microsoft Research, Redmond

"'https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01721-8'">MedMNIST v2 - A large-scale lightweight benchmark for 2D and 3D biomedical image classification https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01721-8

A large-scale MNIST-like collection of standardized biomedical images, including 12 datasets for 2D and 6 datasets for 3D. All images are pre-processed into 28x28 (2D) or 28x28x28 (3D) with the corresponding classification labels, so that no background knowledge is required for users. Covering primary data modalities in biomedical images, MedMNIST is designed to perform classification on lightweight 2D and 3D images with various data scales (from 100 to 100,000) and diverse tasks (binary/multi-class, ordinal regression and multi-label). The resulting dataset, consisting of approximately 708K 2D images and 10K 3D images in total, could support numerous research and educational purposes in biomedical image analysis, computer vision and machine learning.Providers benchmark several baseline methods on MedMNIST, including 2D / 3D neural networks and open-source / commercial AutoML tools.

MedMNIST Landscape :

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About MedMNIST Landscape figure: The horizontal axis denotes the base-10 logarithm of the dataset scale, and the vertical axis denotes base-10 logarithm of imaging resolution. The upward and downward triangles are used to distinguish between 2D datasets and 3D datasets, and the 4 different colors represent different tasks

Key Features

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Diverse: It covers diverse data modalities, dataset scales (from 100 to 100,000), and tasks (binary/multi-class, multi-label, and ordinal regression). It is as diverse as the VDD and MSD to fairly evaluate the generalizable performance of machine learning algorithms in different settings, but both 2D and 3D biomedical images are provided.

Standardized: Each sub-dataset is pre-processed into the same format, which requires no background knowledge for users. As an MNIST-like dataset collection to perform classification tasks on small images, it primarily focuses on the machine learning part rather than the end-to-end system. Furthermore, we provide standard train-validation-test splits for all datasets in MedMNIST, therefore algorithms could be easily compared.

User-Friendly: The small size of 28×28 (2D) or 28×28×28 (3D) is lightweight and ideal for evaluating machine learning algorithms. We also offer a larger-size version, MedMNIST+: 64x64 (2D), 128x128 (2D), 224x224 (2D), and 64x64x64 (3D). Serving as a complement to the 28-size MedMNIST, this could be a standardized resource for developing medical foundation models. All these datasets are accessible via the same API.

Educational: As an interdisciplinary research area, biomedical image analysis is difficult to hand on for researchers from other communities, as it requires background knowledge from computer vision, machine learning, biomedical imaging, and clinical science. Our data with the Creative Commons (CC) License is easy to use for educational purposes.

Refer to the paper to learn more about data : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01721-8

Starter Code: download more data and training

Github Page: https://github.com/MedMNIST/MedMNIST

My Kaggle Starter Notebook: https://www.kaggle.com/code/arashnic/medmnist-download-and-use-data?scriptVersionId=161421937

Acknowledgements

Jiancheng Yang,Rui Shi,Donglai Wei,Zequan Liu,Lin Zhao,Bilian Ke,Hanspeter Pfister,Bingbing Ni Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Fudan Institute of Metabolic Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

License and Citation

The code is under Apache-2.0 License.

The MedMNIST dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)...

Fashion-MNIST is a dataset of Zalando's article images consisting of a training set of 60,000 examples and a test set of 10,000 examples. Each example is a 28x28 grayscale image, associated with a label from 10 classes.

To use this dataset:

import tensorflow_datasets as tfds

ds = tfds.load('fashion_mnist', split='train')
for ex in ds.take(4):
 print(ex)

See the guide for more informations on tensorflow_datasets.

https://storage.googleapis.com/tfds-data/visualization/fig/fashion_mnist-3.0.1.png" alt="Visualization" width="500px">

The MNIST database of handwritten digits, available from this page, has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples. It is a subset of a larger set available from NIST. The digits have been size-normalized and centered in a fixed-size image. It is a good database for people who want to try learning techniques and pattern recognition methods on real-world data while spending minimal efforts on preprocessing and formatting. The original black and white (bilevel) images from NIST were size normalized to fit in a 20x20 pixel box while preserving their aspect ratio. The resulting images contain grey levels as a result of the anti-aliasing technique used by the normalization algorithm. the images were centered in a 28x28 image by computing the center of mass of the pixels, and translating the image so as to position this point at the center of the 28x28 field. With some classification methods (particuarly template-based methods, such as SVM and K-nearest neighbors),

A dataset containing images of handwritten english numerals from 0-9 obtained from National Institute of Standards and Technology. It consists of greyscale images of handwritten digits and consists of 60000 images of size 28*28 for training and 10000 images as test examples.

Context

Fashion-MNIST is a dataset of Zalando's article images—consisting of a training set of 60,000 examples and a test set of 10,000 examples. Each example is a 28x28 grayscale image, associated with a label from 10 classes. Zalando intends Fashion-MNIST to serve as a direct drop-in replacement for the original MNIST dataset for benchmarking machine learning algorithms. It shares the same image size and structure of training and testing splits.

The original MNIST dataset contains a lot of handwritten digits. Members of the AI/ML/Data Science community love this dataset and use it as a benchmark to validate their algorithms. In fact, MNIST is often the first dataset researchers try. "If it doesn't work on MNIST, it won't work at all", they said. "Well, if it does work on MNIST, it may still fail on others."

Zalando seeks to replace the original MNIST dataset

Content

Each image is 28 pixels in height and 28 pixels in width, for a total of 784 pixels in total. Each pixel has a single pixel-value associated with it, indicating the lightness or darkness of that pixel, with higher numbers meaning darker. This pixel-value is an integer between 0 and 255. The training and test data sets have 785 columns. The first column consists of the class labels (see above), and represents the article of clothing. The rest of the columns contain the pixel-values of the associated image.

To locate a pixel on the image, suppose that we have decomposed x as x = i * 28 + j, where i and j are integers between 0 and 27. The pixel is located on row i and column j of a 28 x 28 matrix. For example, pixel31 indicates the pixel that is in the fourth column from the left, and the second row from the top, as in the ascii-diagram below.

Labels

Each training and test example is assigned to one of the following labels:

0 T-shirt/top 1 Trouser 2 Pullover 3 Dress 4 Coat 5 Sandal 6 Shirt 7 Sneaker 8 Bag 9 Ankle boot

TL;DR

Each row is a separate image Column 1 is the class label. Remaining columns are pixel numbers (784 total). Each value is the darkness of the pixel (1 to 255) Acknowledgements

Original dataset was downloaded from https://github.com/zalandoresearch/fashion-mnist Dataset was converted to CSV with this script: https://pjreddie.com/projects/mnist-in-csv/ License

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The MNIST-scale dataset is a dataset of images of handwritten digits, where each image is scaled to a different size.

Context

The MNIST Data set consists 60,000 images. The Digit Recognizer Challenge in Kaggle consist of 42000 images in training . For each image in the training set, I have created four shifted copies ( one per direction ).

That makes it 42000 * 5 = 210000 images in this dataset. Using this extended dataset, you will find that your model performs even better.

Content

Each image is 28 pixels in height and 28 pixels in width, for a total of 784 pixels in total. Each pixel has a single pixel-value associated with it, indicating the lightness or darkness of that pixel, with higher numbers meaning darker. This pixel-value is an integer between 0 and 255, inclusive.

Each pixel column in the training set has a name like pixelx, where x is an integer between 0 and 783, inclusive. To locate this pixel on the image, suppose that we have decomposed x as x = i * 28 + j, where i and j are integers between 0 and 27, inclusive. Then pixelx is located on row i and column j of a 28 x 28 matrix, (indexing by zero).

Inspiration

Got the idea to extend the data set from the the book "Hands on machine learing with scikit-learn and Tensorflow" The python script I wrote, to do the task would have taken a very long time as such, therefore used multiprocessing to accomplish the task.

Documentation is available at https://github.com/TimSchneider42/tactile-mnist/blob/main/doc/datasets.md#touch-datasets.

Code [GitHub] | Publication [Nature Scientific Data'23 / ISBI'21] | Preprint [arXiv]

Abstract

We introduce MedMNIST, a large-scale MNIST-like collection of standardized biomedical images, including 12 datasets for 2D and 6 datasets for 3D. All images are pre-processed into 28x28 (2D) or 28x28x28 (3D) with the corresponding classification labels, so that no background knowledge is required for users. Covering primary data modalities in biomedical images, MedMNIST is designed to perform classification on lightweight 2D and 3D images with various data scales (from 100 to 100,000) and diverse tasks (binary/multi-class, ordinal regression and multi-label). The resulting dataset, consisting of approximately 708K 2D images and 10K 3D images in total, could support numerous research and educational purposes in biomedical image analysis, computer vision and machine learning. We benchmark several baseline methods on MedMNIST, including 2D / 3D neural networks and open-source / commercial AutoML tools. The data and code are publicly available at https://medmnist.com/.

Disclaimer: The only official distribution link for the MedMNIST dataset is Zenodo. We kindly request users to refer to this original dataset link for accurate and up-to-date data.

Update: We are thrilled to release MedMNIST+ with larger sizes: 64x64, 128x128, and 224x224 for 2D, and 64x64x64 for 3D. As a complement to the previous 28-size MedMNIST, the large-size version could serve as a standardized benchmark for medical foundation models. Install the latest API to try it out!

Python Usage

We recommend our official code to download, parse and use the MedMNIST dataset:

% pip install medmnist% python

To use the standard 28-size (MNIST-like) version utilizing the downloaded files:

from medmnist import PathMNIST

train_dataset = PathMNIST(split="train")

To enable automatic downloading by setting download=True:

from medmnist import NoduleMNIST3D

val_dataset = NoduleMNIST3D(split="val", download=True)

Alternatively, you can access MedMNIST+ with larger image sizes by specifying the size parameter:

from medmnist import ChestMNIST

test_dataset = ChestMNIST(split="test", download=True, size=224)

Citation

If you find this project useful, please cite both v1 and v2 paper as:

Jiancheng Yang, Rui Shi, Donglai Wei, Zequan Liu, Lin Zhao, Bilian Ke, Hanspeter Pfister, Bingbing Ni. Yang, Jiancheng, et al. "MedMNIST v2-A large-scale lightweight benchmark for 2D and 3D biomedical image classification." Scientific Data, 2023.

Jiancheng Yang, Rui Shi, Bingbing Ni. "MedMNIST Classification Decathlon: A Lightweight AutoML Benchmark for Medical Image Analysis". IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2021.

or using bibtex:

@article{medmnistv2, title={MedMNIST v2-A large-scale lightweight benchmark for 2D and 3D biomedical image classification}, author={Yang, Jiancheng and Shi, Rui and Wei, Donglai and Liu, Zequan and Zhao, Lin and Ke, Bilian and Pfister, Hanspeter and Ni, Bingbing}, journal={Scientific Data}, volume={10}, number={1}, pages={41}, year={2023}, publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London} }

@inproceedings{medmnistv1, title={MedMNIST Classification Decathlon: A Lightweight AutoML Benchmark for Medical Image Analysis}, author={Yang, Jiancheng and Shi, Rui and Ni, Bingbing}, booktitle={IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)}, pages={191--195}, year={2021} }

Please also cite the corresponding paper(s) of source data if you use any subset of MedMNIST as per the description on the project website.

License

The MedMNIST dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), except DermaMNIST under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

The code is under Apache-2.0 License.

Changelog

v3.0 (this repository): Released MedMNIST+ featuring larger sizes: 64x64, 128x128, and 224x224 for 2D, and 64x64x64 for 3D.

v2.2: Removed a small number of mistakenly included blank samples in OrganAMNIST, OrganCMNIST, OrganSMNIST, OrganMNIST3D, and VesselMNIST3D.

v2.1: Addressed an issue in the NoduleMNIST3D file (i.e., nodulemnist3d.npz). Further details can be found in this issue.

v2.0: Launched the initial repository of MedMNIST v2, adding 6 datasets for 3D and 2 for 2D.

v1.0: Established the initial repository (in a separate repository) of MedMNIST v1, featuring 10 datasets for 2D.

Note: This dataset is NOT intended for clinical use.

The MultiMNIST dataset is generated from MNIST. The training and tests are generated by overlaying a digit on top of another digit from the same set (training or test) but different class. Each digit is shifted up to 4 pixels in each direction resulting in a 36×36 image. Considering a digit in a 28×28 image is bounded in a 20×20 box, two digits bounding boxes on average have 80% overlap. For each digit in the MNIST dataset 1,000 MultiMNIST examples are generated, so the training set size is 60M and the test set size is 10M.

The MNIST dataset has become a standard benchmark for learning, classification and computer vision systems. Contributing to its widespread adoption are the understandable and intuitive nature of the task, its relatively small size and storage requirements and the accessibility and ease-of-use of the database itself. The MNIST database was derived from a larger dataset known as the NIST Special Database 19 which contains digits, uppercase and lowercase handwritten letters. This paper introduces a variant of the full NIST dataset, which we have called Extended MNIST (EMNIST), which follows the same conversion paradigm used to create the MNIST dataset. The result is a set of datasets that constitute a more challenging classification tasks involving letters and digits, and that shares the same image structure and parameters as the original MNIST task, allowing for direct compatibility with all existing classifiers and systems. Benchmark results are presented along with a validation of the conversion process through the comparison of the classification results on converted NIST digits and the MNIST digits.

A Read Me file describing the database is included in the available attachments.
Note: The available zip files are each > 500MB in size. Should these files become unavailable from the website provided, please contact Western Sydney University Library about this record.

Motivation

The goal of introducing the Rescaled Fashion-MNIST with translations dataset is to provide a dataset that contains scale variations (up to a factor of 4), to evaluate the ability of networks to generalise to scales not present in the training data, and to additionally provide a way to test network object detection and object localisation abilities on image data where the objects are not centred.

The Rescaled Fashion-MNIST with translations dataset was introduced in the paper:

[1] A. Perzanowski and T. Lindeberg (2025) "Scale generalisation properties of extended scale-covariant and scale-invariant Gaussian derivative networks on image datasets with spatial scaling variations”, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 67(29), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10851-025-01245-x.

with a pre-print available at arXiv:

[2] Perzanowski and Lindeberg (2024) "Scale generalisation properties of extended scale-covariant and scale-invariant Gaussian derivative networks on image datasets with spatial scaling variations”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11140.

Importantly, the Rescaled Fashion-MNIST with translations dataset is more challenging than the MNIST Large Scale dataset, introduced in:

[3] Y. Jansson and T. Lindeberg (2022) "Scale-invariant scale-channel networks: Deep networks that generalise to previously unseen scales", Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 64(5): 506-536, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10851-022-01082-2.

Access and rights

The Rescaled Fashion-MNIST with translations dataset is provided on the condition that you provide proper citation for the original Fashion-MNIST dataset:

[4] Xiao, H., Rasul, K., and Vollgraf, R. (2017) “Fashion-MNIST: A novel image dataset for benchmarking machine learning algorithms”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07747

and also for this new rescaled version, using the reference [1] above.

The data set is made available on request. If you would be interested in trying out this data set, please make a request in the system below, and we will grant you access as soon as possible.

The dataset

The Rescaled FashionMNIST with translations dataset is generated by rescaling 28×28 gray-scale images of clothes from the original FashionMNIST dataset [4]. The scale variations are up to a factor of 4, and the images are embedded within black images of size 72x72. The objects within the images have also been randomly shifted in the spatial domain, with the object always at least 4 pixels away from the image boundary. The imresize() function in Matlab was used for the rescaling, with default anti-aliasing turned on, and bicubic interpolation overshoot removed by clipping to the [0, 255] range. The details of how the dataset was created can be found in [1].

There are 10 different classes in the dataset: “T-shirt/top”, “trouser”, “pullover”, “dress”, “coat”, “sandal”, “shirt”, “sneaker”, “bag” and “ankle boot”. In the dataset, these are represented by integer labels in the range [0, 9].

The dataset is split into 50 000 training samples, 10 000 validation samples and 10 000 testing samples. The training dataset is generated using the initial 50 000 samples from the original Fashion-MNIST training set. The validation dataset, on the other hand, is formed from the final 10 000 images of that same training set. For testing, all test datasets are built from the 10 000 images contained in the original Fashion-MNIST test set.

The h5 files containing the dataset

The training dataset file (~2.9 GB) for scale 1, which also contains the corresponding validation and test data for the same scale, is:

fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_tr50000_vl10000_te10000_outsize72-72_scte1p000_scte1p000.h5

Additionally, for the Rescaled FashionMNIST with translations dataset, there are 9 datasets (~415 MB each) for testing scale generalisation at scales not present in the training set. Each of these datasets is rescaled using a different image scaling factor, 2^k/4, with k being integers in the range [-4, 4]:

fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte0p500.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte0p595.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte0p707.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte0p841.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte1p000.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte1p189.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte1p414.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte1p682.h5
fashionmnist_with_scale_variations_and_translations_te10000_outsize72-72_scte2p000.h5

These dataset files were used for the experiments presented in Figure 8 in [1].

Instructions for loading the data set

The datasets are saved in HDF5 format, with the partitions in the respective h5 files named as
('/x_train', '/x_val', '/x_test', '/y_train', '/y_test', '/y_val'); which ones exist depends on which data split is used.

The training dataset can be loaded in Python as:

with h5py.File(`

x_train = np.array( f["/x_train"], dtype=np.float32)
x_val = np.array( f["/x_val"], dtype=np.float32)
x_test = np.array( f["/x_test"], dtype=np.float32)
y_train = np.array( f["/y_train"], dtype=np.int32)
y_val = np.array( f["/y_val"], dtype=np.int32)
y_test = np.array( f["/y_test"], dtype=np.int32)

We also need to permute the data, since Pytorch uses the format [num_samples, channels, width, height], while the data is saved as [num_samples, width, height, channels]:

x_train = np.transpose(x_train, (0, 3, 1, 2))
x_val = np.transpose(x_val, (0, 3, 1, 2))
x_test = np.transpose(x_test, (0, 3, 1, 2))

The test datasets can be loaded in Python as:

with h5py.File(`

x_test = np.array( f["/x_test"], dtype=np.float32)
y_test = np.array( f["/y_test"], dtype=np.int32)

The test datasets can be loaded in Matlab as:

x_test = h5read(`

The images are stored as [num_samples, x_dim, y_dim, channels] in HDF5 files. The pixel intensity values are not normalised, and are in a [0, 255] range.

There is also a closely related Fashion-MNIST dataset, which in addition to scaling variations keeps the objects in the frame centred, meaning no spatial translations are used.

The Stacked MNIST dataset is derived from the standard MNIST dataset with an increased number of discrete modes. 240,000 RGB images in the size of 32×32 are synthesized by stacking three random digit images from MNIST along the color channel, resulting in 1,000 explicit modes in a uniform distribution corresponding to the number of possible triples of digits.

Context

I needed 224 by 224 version of MNIST dataset for one of my projects so I made this.

Content

The dataset has 35 files in idx3-ubyte format with 2000 images each and dimension 224x224. 5 of these are test data files and 30 are train data files.

Acknowledgements

The actual MNIST dataset creators