FairVLMed: Fair Vision-Language Medical Ophthalmic Dataset

Ophthalmic clinical text + NPZ records covering glaucoma, cataract, and neuro-ophthalmology with paired age, sex, race/ethnicity, and language attributes. Derived from the same Harvard clinical population as Harvard-FairVision.

At a glance

Field	Value
Short name	fairvlmed
Full name	FairVLMed: Fair Vision-Language Medical Ophthalmic Dataset
Primary category	multimodal
Contained modalities	fundus, visual_field, text, tabular
Tasks	classification
Samples	Not reported
Classes	Not reported (Not reported)
Splits	train, val, test
Size	10.0 GB
Source-stated terms	See Harvard AI Robotics terms
Normalized terms	unknown
Descriptive screening label	Unknown or unclear; do not assume permission
Terms scope	unknown
Access friction	anonymous_direct
Route backend	HuggingFace Hub
Availability	available (checked 2026-07-21)
Acquisition support	standard_platform_supported
Legacy sample-loader status	Metadata and access only

Notes

OVERLAP: Derived from the same Harvard clinical cohort as harvard_fairvision (already indexed). Kept for VLM/text researchers who specifically need the text+NPZ view.

Access preflight and acquisition

CLI

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

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

Python

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

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

Upstream page: huggingface.co/datasets

Source-term evidence: huggingface.co/datasets

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{fairvlmed,
  title  = { FairVLMed: Fair Vision-Language Medical Ophthalmic Dataset },
  note   = { Harvard AI Robotics, FairVLMed: Fair vision-language medical ophthalmic dataset. HuggingFace, 2024 },
  year   = { 2024 },
  url    = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/harvardairobotics/FairVLMed },
}

Plain text

Harvard AI Robotics, FairVLMed: Fair vision-language medical ophthalmic dataset. HuggingFace, 2024.

Source-stated terms

• Raw source string: See Harvard AI Robotics terms
• 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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