G banded metaphase images

Access to datasets is vital to research, design and development of machine learning models and algorithms. Machine learning approaches for automated karyotyping system always require metaphase image dataset. The human metaphase images are not easily available for the researches in the field of cytogenetics. With the present contribution, microscopic images of G banded human metaphases are provided and made publicly available to research community. The dataset is prepared from the peripheral blood samples collected from volunteers. Through a series of cytogenetic procedures namely, culturing, harvesting, slide preparation, banding and staining , G banded metaphase images are captured using Leica DM 2500 microscope and Leica DMC 2900 camera. These image data can be used by the researchers basically for automated karyotyping system design and research. Researchers in various image processing and machine learning applications fields such as preprocessing, segmentation, metaphase classification can make use of these images. There are 100 sample images with resolution 2048 * 1536 and bit depth 24 are provided. All images are in .png format.