HEI-MED: Hamilton Eye Institute Macular Edema Dataset

A collection of 169 fundus photographs with expert exudate and bright lesion annotations, clinical metadata, optic nerve locations, vessel estimates, and image quality scores.

At a glance

Field	Value
Short name	hei_med
Full name	HEI-MED: Hamilton Eye Institute Macular Edema Dataset
Primary category	fundus
Contained modalities	fundus
Tasks	segmentation, classification, quality
Samples	169
Classes	Not reported (Not reported)
Splits	all
Size	0.32 GB
Source-stated terms	Research only: non-commercial research use
Normalized terms	research-only
Descriptive screening label	Research or challenge restriction recorded; check source
Terms scope	dataset_files
Access friction	anonymous_direct
Route backend	GitHub
Availability	available (checked 2026-07-21)
Acquisition support	loader_implemented_not_live_tested
Legacy sample-loader status	Metadata and access only

Notes

The source README permits only non-commercial research use and requires citation. No SPDX license file is present.

Access preflight and acquisition

CLI

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

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

Python

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

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

Upstream page: github.com/lgiancaUTH

Source-term evidence: github.com/lgiancaUTH

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{hei_med,
  title  = { HEI-MED: Hamilton Eye Institute Macular Edema Dataset },
  note   = { Giancardo L, Meriaudeau F, Karnowski TP, et al. Exudate-based diabetic macular edema detection in fundus images using publicly available datasets. Med Image Anal. 2012;16:216-226. doi:10.1016/j.media.2011.07.004 },
  year   = { 2012 },
  url    = { https://github.com/lgiancaUTH/HEI-MED },
}

Plain text

Giancardo L, Meriaudeau F, Karnowski TP, et al. Exudate-based diabetic macular edema detection in fundus images using publicly available datasets. Med Image Anal. 2012;16:216-226. doi:10.1016/j.media.2011.07.004

Source-stated terms

• Raw source string: Research only: non-commercial research use
• Normalized category: research-only
• Apparent scope: dataset_files
• Descriptive screening label: Research or challenge restriction recorded; check source

⚠️ 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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