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task_categories:
- other
language:
- en
tags:
- medical
- medical-imaging
- foundation-models
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**Project Imaging-X** is a strategic initiative to consolidate 1000+ open medical imaging datasets worldwide, breaking down data silos through systematic integration to build the foundational infrastructure for next-generation medical AI models.
> **Challenge**: Medical imaging lacks large-scale unified datasets due to clinical expertise requirements and privacy constraints, limiting the development of powerful medical foundation models.
> **Solution**: We surveyed 1000+ open-access medical image datasets, developed a systematic integration paradigm, and created a unified repository with structured metadata and reference links.
> **Impact**: Transforming fragmented small datasets into cohesive large-scale resources to accelerate medical AI research and enable robust foundation models for the biomedical community.
> If you spot any mistakes or have suggestions, feel free to reach out by email: yejin@pjlab.org.cn, huming@pjlab.org.cn, zongyuan.ge@moansh.edu, qiaoyu@pjlab.org.cn, chenyirong@pjlab.org.cn, hejunjun@pjlab.org.cn
## π Citation
If you find this repository or our survey helpful in your research, please kindly cite our paper:
π **Paper**: [project-imaging-x_dataset-survey](project-imaging-x_dataset-survey.pdf)
```bibtex
@misc{deng2026projectimagingxsurvey1000,
title={Project Imaging-X: A Survey of 1000+ Open-Access Medical Imaging Datasets for Foundation Model Development},
author={Zhongying Deng and Cheng Tang and Ziyan Huang and Jiashi Lin and Ying Chen and Junzhi Ning and Chenglong Ma and Jiyao Liu and Wei Li and Yinghao Zhu and Shujian Gao and Yanyan Huang and Sibo Ju and Yanzhou Su and Pengcheng Chen and Wenhao Tang and Tianbin Li and Haoyu Wang and Yuanfeng Ji and Hui Sun and Shaobo Min and Liang Peng and Feilong Tang and Haochen Xue and Rulin Zhou and Chaoyang Zhang and Wenjie Li and Shaohao Rui and Weijie Ma and Xingyue Zhao and Yibin Wang and Kun Yuan and Zhaohui Lu and Shujun Wang and Jinjie Wei and Lihao Liu and Dingkang Yang and Lin Wang and Yulong Li and Haolin Yang and Yiqing Shen and Lequan Yu and Xiaowei Hu and Yun Gu and Yicheng Wu and Benyou Wang and Minghui Zhang and Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero and Qi Gao and Hongming Shan and Xiaoyu Ren and Fang Yan and Hongyu Zhou and Haodong Duan and Maosong Cao and Shanshan Wang and Bin Fu and Xiaomeng Li and Zhi Hou and Chunfeng Song and Lei Bai and Yuan Cheng and Yuandong Pu and Xiang Li and Wenhai Wang and Hao Chen and Jiaxin Zhuang and Songyang Zhang and Huiguang He and Mengzhang Li and Bohan Zhuang and Zhian Bai and Rongshan Yu and Liansheng Wang and Yukun Zhou and Xiaosong Wang and Xin Guo and Guanbin Li and Xiangru Lin and Dakai Jin and Mianxin Liu and Wenlong Zhang and Qi Qin and Conghui He and Yuqiang Li and Ye Luo and Nanqing Dong and Jie Xu and Wenqi Shao and Bo Zhang and Qiujuan Yan and Yihao Liu and Jun Ma and Zhi Lu and Yuewen Cao and Zongwei Zhou and Jianming Liang and Shixiang Tang and Qi Duan and Dongzhan Zhou and Chen Jiang and Yuyin Zhou and Yanwu Xu and Jiancheng Yang and Shaoting Zhang and Xiaohong Liu and Siqi Luo and Yi Xin and Chaoyu Liu and Haochen Wen and Xin Chen and Alejandro Lozano and Min Woo Sun and Yuhui Zhang and Yue Yao and Xiaoxiao Sun and Serena Yeung-Levy and Xia Li and Jing Ke and Chunhui Zhang and Zongyuan Ge and Ming Hu and Jin Ye and Zhifeng Li and Yirong Chen and Yu Qiao and Junjun He},
year={2026},
eprint={2603.27460},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27460},
}
```
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## π Interactive Discovery Portal
[GitHub link to Interactive Discovery Portal](https://tchenglv520.github.io/medical-dataset-browser/)
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## π₯ Medical Datasets Overview
*Comprehensive visualization of medical imaging datasets showing anatomical region distribution, imaging modalities, and AI task types, spanning the evolution of medical imaging from 2000 to 2025*
### π Dataset Taxonomy & Statistical Analysis
Systematic categorization framework for efficient dataset discovery and organization
Statistical breakdown: (a) Data dimension distribution (b) Imaging modality distribution (c) Task type distribution (d) Anatomical organ distribution
