Skip to main content

REFUGE 2018: Retinal Fundus Glaucoma Challenge

1200 fundus images: 400 train, 400 val, 400 test. Labels: glaucoma/non-glaucoma + optic disc/cup segmentation.

At a glance

FieldValue
Short namerefuge2018
Full nameREFUGE 2018: Retinal Fundus Glaucoma Challenge
Primary categoryfundus
Contained modalitiesfundus
Tasksclassification, segmentation
Samples1,200
Classes2 (Non-glaucoma, Glaucoma)
Splitstrain, val, test
Size2.5 GB
Source-stated termsResearch only — requires Grand Challenge registration
Normalized termsresearch-only
Descriptive screening labelResearch or challenge restriction recorded; check source
Terms scopechallenge_participation
Access frictioncontrolled_or_manual
Route backendManual (upstream-gated)
Availabilityavailable (checked 2026-07-21)
Acquisition supportmanual_access_blocked
Legacy sample-loader statusStandard loader included

Notes

Requires Grand Challenge account and challenge participation.

Access preflight and acquisition

# This route requires upstream human action; no transfer starts.
eyehub download refuge2018 --data-dir ./data --dry-run --json
# Follow the official instructions shown by preflight.

Upstream page: refuge.grand-challenge.org

Source-term evidence: refuge.grand-challenge.org

Loader example

This entry includes a standard DatasetSample loader.

from pathlib import Path
from eyedatahub.datasets.registry import REGISTRY

data_dir = Path('~/.eyedatahub/data').expanduser()
ds = REGISTRY.get_dataset('refuge2018')
samples = ds.load(data_dir, split='test')
for s in samples[:5]:
print(s.sample_id, s.label, s.image_path)

Citation

@misc{refuge2018,
title = { REFUGE 2018: Retinal Fundus Glaucoma Challenge },
note = { Orlando et al., 'REFUGE challenge: A unified framework for evaluating automated methods for glaucoma assessment from fundus photographs', MedIA 2020 },
year = { 2020 },
url = { https://refuge.grand-challenge.org/ },
}

Source-stated terms

  • Raw source string: Research only — requires Grand Challenge registration
  • Normalized category: research-only
  • Apparent scope: challenge_participation
  • 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.

  • airogs: AIROGS: AI for Robust Glaucoma Screening (113,893 records, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • eyecare_100k: Eyecare-100K: Multimodal Ophthalmology VQA Corpus (102,000 records, unknown)
  • justraigs: JustRAIGS: Just Referral AI Glaucoma Screening Dataset (101,442 records, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • eyepacs: EyePACS — Diabetic Retinopathy Detection (Kaggle 2015) (88,702 records, research-only)
  • multieye: MultiEYE: OCT-Enhanced Fundus Multi-Disease Benchmark (58,036 records, mit)
  • angioreport: AngioReport Fundus Angiography Report Dataset (55,361 records, unknown)
  • ffa_ir: FFA-IR Medical Report Dataset (47,247 records, unknown)
  • bidr: BiDR: Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis Dataset (35,126 records, unknown)