cropped diBas dataset for machine learning

This zip file contains a collection of 244 x 244 images of various gram-stained bacteria strains, cropped from the diBas dataset (Bartosz Zieli ́nski et al. 2017).  Each folder is named by the species of the bacteria images it contains. 

Potential uses for the dataset include machine learning. An example neural network for bacteria classification using this dataset is deployed at https://huggingface.co/spaces/qile0317/Bacteria-Classification

Note that the data is not completely optimized, as it contains trace amounts of almost blank images.