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| pretty_name: MultiCaRe Case Images (representative) |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - image-to-text |
| - document-question-answering |
| language: |
| - en |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
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| # MultiCaRe: Open-Source Clinical Case Dataset |
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| MultiCaRe is an open-source, multimodal clinical case dataset built from the PubMed Central Open Access (OA) Case Report articles. It aggregates de-identified, open-access case narratives, figure images, captions, and rich article metadata across diverse specialties. Figures are mapped to their case text with explicit references and to article-level metadata, enabling grounded multimodal use. |
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| - Source and process: OA case reports were collected from PMC; article metadata and abstracts were parsed; figures were downloaded and split into subimages when needed; captions were aligned; and image labels were curated from a hierarchical medical taxonomy (>140 classes). |
| - Scale: 85k+ OA case reports, 160k+ images/subimages (v2.0). |
| - Tasks enabled: image-text retrieval, caption grounding, VQA/doc-QA, image classification, multimodal modeling. |
| - Citation: DATA journal paper — https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/8/123; Zenodo — https://zenodo.org/records/13936721. |
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| This repository: one representative image per figure |
| One row per figure (image_id) with a representative processed image and textual context that mentions the figure in the case narrative. |
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| Highlights |
| - Representative image chosen per figure (preference: undivided > 'a' > first available). |
| - Includes text_references snippets to ground the figure in the case text. |
| - Join to image-, case-, and article-level datasets using stable keys. |
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| Schema |
| - image: datasets.Image (PIL-compatible) |
| - image_id: original figure identifier (groups subimages) |
| - file: processed image filename used as the representative |
| - caption: figure caption (original) |
| - text_references: newline-joined excerpts that mention this figure |
| - tag: PubMed file tag |
| - case_id: equals cases.case_id |
| - article_id: PMCID |
| - file_id, patient_id, license: cross-links and license string |
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| Quick start |
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| ds = load_dataset("openmed-community/multicare-case-images", split="train") |
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| row = ds[0] |
| row["image"].show() |
| print(row["caption"]) # caption of the figure |
| print(row["text_references"]) # where it appears in the case text |
| ``` |
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| Joins |
| - image_id ↔ images.main_image |
| - case_id ↔ cases.case_id |
| - article_id ↔ articles.article_id |
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| Notes |
| - Prefer patient/article-level splits downstream. |
| - Per-item OA licenses are preserved. |
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