This dataset consists of image tiles extracted from whole-slide images (WSIs) of Kinyoun-stained smears, intended for the detection of acid-fast bacteria (AFB) such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related species.
The obj_det_train and obj_det_test tarballs contain approximately 50k tiles intended for training an object detection model, split into training and test sets. Roughly 20% of these tiles contain annotated AFB with bounding boxes drawn by trained AFB laboratory experts. The… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/arup-ri/kinyoun_afb_50k.
