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FEEDBACK ON A PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED IMAGE DATABASE: THE MESSIDOR DATABASE

2014; Slovenian Society for Stereology and Quantitative Image Analysis; Volume: 33; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5566/ias.1155

1854-5165

Etienne Décencière, Xiwei Zhang, Guy Cazuguel, Bruno Laÿ, Béatrice Cochener, Caroline Trone, Philippe Gain, Richard C. Ordonez, Pascale Massin, Ali Erginay, B Charton, Jean-Claude Klein,

Glaucoma and retinal disorders

The Messidor database, which contains hundreds of eye fundus images, has been publicly distributed since 2008. It was created by the Messidor project in order to evaluate automatic lesion segmentation and diabetic retinopathy grading methods. Designing, producing and maintaining such a database entails significant costs. By publicly sharing it, one hopes to bring a valuable resource to the public research community. However, the real interest and benefit of the research community is not easy to quantify. We analyse here the feedback on the Messidor database, after more than 6 years of diffusion. This analysis should apply to other similar research databases.