Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bacilli from TB Smear Images

This dataset is a subset of tuberculosis smear images that Wellgen Medical collected from across Asia to train and validate its smear microscopy automated system. The slides are digitized using a microscopic scanner (Wellgen Medical M-Scan Microscope Advance, a USFDA listing device) and subdivided into images with a resolution of 2448x2048. All positive smear images in the dataset come from sputum slides with culture-proven tuberculosis. Some images are generated from a single slide; not all contain TB bacilli. Only the images with TB bacilli are included in the dataset with the positive label. These bacilli are identified with Wellgen Medical’s AI algorithm and then double-checked by two licensed medical technicians. For more information, please contact [e-mail]