A Dataset of Widefield Fundus Images From Patients With Birdshot Chorioretinitis and Matched Control
Thomas Foulonneau, Caroline Memmi, Dominique Monnet, Antoine P Brézin, Aliénor Vienne-Jumeau · 2026
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Description
Thomas Foulonneau and co-authors released a public image collection for birdshot chorioretinitis, a rare inflammatory eye disease. Their dataset paper appeared in Scientific Data in 2026. Research on this condition has been slowed by the lack of large shared image sets. The collection, called Birdshot-Wide, gathers widefield photographs of the retina from patients and matched healthy controls. Each patient image was checked by hand and labeled by its dominant lesion type.
The set holds more than five thousand patient images from 742 eyes, plus a matched control set of the same size. Patient follow-up stretches over a median of more than four years, so change over time can be studied. As a test, the team trained deep learning models that separated patient from control images with strong accuracy. The authors intend the data for biomarker hunting, automatic diagnosis tools, and models of how the disease progresses.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thomas Foulonneau, Caroline Memmi, Dominique Monnet, Antoine P Brézin, Aliénor Vienne-Jumeau |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |