DRIVE: Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction

Forty color fundus photographs from a diabetic retinopathy screening program, divided into 20 training and 20 test images, with vessel reference annotations and field of view masks.

At a glance

Field	Value
Short name	drive
Full name	DRIVE: Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction
Primary category	fundus
Contained modalities	fundus
Tasks	segmentation
Samples	40
Classes	2 (background, vessel)
Splits	train, test
Size	Not reported
Source-stated terms	Unknown; no named dataset license on the official page
Normalized terms	unknown
Descriptive screening label	Unknown or unclear; do not assume permission
Terms scope	unknown
Access friction	self_service_authenticated
Route backend	Manual (upstream-gated)
Availability	available (checked 2026-07-21)
Acquisition support	guided_instructions_only
Legacy sample-loader status	Metadata and access only

Notes

The official page reports 768 by 584 pixel images, one manual vessel segmentation for each training image, and hidden test references used by the evaluation server. Verify reuse terms with the source before redistribution.

Access preflight and acquisition

CLI

# Read-only preflight
eyehub download drive --data-dir ./data --dry-run --json

# Explicit transfer, only when preflight reports supported behavior
eyehub download drive --data-dir ./data

Python

from eyedatahub.acquisition import preflight_dataset
from eyedatahub.datasets.registry import REGISTRY

ds = REGISTRY.get_dataset('drive')
print(preflight_dataset(ds, './data'))  # no transfer

Upstream page: drive.grand-challenge.org/DRIVE

Source-term evidence: drive.grand-challenge.org/DRIVE

Loader status

This catalog record provides metadata and access instructions, but it does not yet include a standard DatasetSample loader. Inspect the source file structure or contribute a loader before using it in a training pipeline.

Citation

BibTeX

@misc{drive,
  title  = { DRIVE: Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction },
  note   = { Staal J, Abramoff MD, Niemeijer M, Viergever MA, van Ginneken B. Ridge-based vessel segmentation in color images of the retina. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2004;23:501-509. doi:10.1109/TMI.2004.825627 },
  year   = { 2004 },
  url    = { https://drive.grand-challenge.org/DRIVE/ },
}

Plain text

Staal J, Abramoff MD, Niemeijer M, Viergever MA, van Ginneken B. Ridge-based vessel segmentation in color images of the retina. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2004;23:501-509. doi:10.1109/TMI.2004.825627

Source-stated terms

• Raw source string: Unknown; no named dataset license on the official page
• Normalized category: unknown
• Apparent scope: unknown
• Descriptive screening label: Unknown or unclear; do not assume permission

⚠️ Source-stated terms, scope, and normalized labels are curation metadata, not legal advice or a permission finding. Review the current official source before transfer or reuse.

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