STARE: Structured Analysis of the Retina

20 fundus images with manual vessel segmentation (two annotators).

At a glance

Field	Value
Short name	stare
Full name	STARE: Structured Analysis of the Retina
First published	Unknown
Publication date precision	Unknown
Publication date evidence	Unknown
Publication date source field	Unknown
Publication date reviewed	Unknown
Primary category	fundus
Resource role	current_dataset
Dataset family	stare
Contained modalities	fundus
Tasks	segmentation
Primary reported quantity	20 images
Classes	Not reported (Not reported)
Splits	all
Size	0.02 GB
Source-stated terms	Research only
Normalized terms	research-only
Descriptive screening label	Research or challenge restriction recorded; check source
Terms scope	dataset_files
Access friction	anonymous_direct
Route backend	Direct HTTP
Availability	available (checked 2026-07-21)
Acquisition support	end_to_end_tested
Legacy sample-loader status	Standard loader included

Reported quantities

Role	Count	Unit	Scope	Basis	Evidence
Primary	20	images	Primary quantity reported in the reviewed catalog source	legacy_catalog_field	cecas.clemson.edu/~ahoover

Counts retain their source-reported units. Additional rows can describe components, paired items, or derivative copies and are not automatically added to the primary quantity.

Documented relationships

These links record source-supported lineage or overlap, not merely similar modality tags.

• mm_retinal_reason is derived from this record: The version-pinned official dataset card lists this record among the CFP or OCT sources used to construct MM-Retinal-Reason. (evidence)
• multieye is derived from this record: The MultiEYE paper names this record as one of the public fundus or OCT sources assembled for the benchmark. (evidence)
• mured is derived from this record: The MuReD description identifies STARE, RFMiD, and ARIA as image sources and applies post-processing. (evidence)
• retinal_vessel_robustness is derived from this record: The robustness benchmark contains augmented versions of DRIVE, STARE, and CHASE_DB1 images. (evidence)

Access information and download

CLI

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

# Download, only when preflight reports supported behavior
eyehub download stare --data-dir ./data

Python

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

ds = REGISTRY.get_dataset('stare')
print(preflight_dataset(ds, './data'))  # no download

Upstream page: cecas.clemson.edu/~ahoover

Source-term evidence: cecas.clemson.edu/~ahoover

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('stare')
samples = ds.load(data_dir, split='all')
for s in samples[:5]:
    print(s.sample_id, s.label, s.image_path)

Citation

BibTeX

@misc{stare,
  title  = { STARE: Structured Analysis of the Retina },
  note   = { Hoover et al., 'Locating blood vessels in retinal images by piece-wise threshold probing of a matched filter response', IEEE TMI 2000 },
  year   = { 2000 },
  url    = { https://cecas.clemson.edu/~ahoover/stare/ },
}

Plain text

Hoover et al., 'Locating blood vessels in retinal images by piece-wise threshold probing of a matched filter response', IEEE TMI 2000.

Source-stated terms

• Raw source string: Research only
• 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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