README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
- image-classification
tags:
- biology
- Colorectal Pancer
- Histopathology
- Histology
- Digital Pathology
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: image
    dtype: image
  - name: label
    dtype:
      class_label:
        names:
          '0': ADIPOSE
          '1': COMPLEX
          '2': DEBRIS
          '3': EMPTY
          '4': LYMPHO
          '5': MUCOSA
          '6': STROMA
          '7': TUMOR
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 329215083
    num_examples: 5000
  download_size: 293441024
  dataset_size: 329215083
---

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# Collection of textures in colorectal cancer histology

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage**: https://zenodo.org/records/53169
- **DOI**: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.53169
- **Publication Date** 2016-05-26

## Description

This data set represents a collection of textures in histological images of human colorectal cancer.
It contains 5000 histological images of 150 * 150 px each (74 * 74 µm). Each image belongs to exactly one of eight tissue categories.

## Image format

All images are RGB, 0.495 µm per pixel, digitized with an Aperio ScanScope (Aperio/Leica biosystems), magnification 20x.
Histological samples are fully anonymized images of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded human colorectal adenocarcinomas (primary tumors) from our pathology archive
(Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany).

## Ethics statement

All experiments were approved by the institutional ethics board (medical ethics board II, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany; approval 2015-868R-MA).
The institutional ethics board waived the need for informed consent for this retrospective analysis of anonymized samples.
All experiments were carried out in accordance with the approved guidelines and with the Declaration of Helsinki.

## More information / data usage

For more information, please refer to the following article. Please cite this article when using the data set. \
[Kather JN, Weis CA, Bianconi F, Melchers SM, Schad LR, Gaiser T, Marx A, Zollner F:
Multi-class texture analysis in colorectal cancer histology (2016), Scientific Reports (in press)](https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27988)

## Contact

For questions, please contact: \
Dr. Jakob Nikolas Kather \
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-5348 \
ResearcherID: D-4279-2015

## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{kather_2016_53169,
  author    = {Kather, Jakob Nikolas and Zöllner, Frank Gerrit and Bianconi, Francesco and Melchers, Susanne M and Schad, Lothar R and Gaiser, Timo and Marx, Alexander and Weis, Cleo-Aron},
  title     = {{Collection of textures in colorectal cancer histology}},
  month     = jun,
  year      = 2016,
  publisher = {Zenodo}
}
```