Nature

A dataset of oracle characters for benchmarking machine learning algorithms

In the last few years, rapid progress has been unfolding in machine learning (ML) due to the release of specialized datasets that serve as experimental testbeds and public benchmarks, thus focusing ...
Nature

MedMNIST v2 - A large-scale lightweight benchmark for 2D and 3D biomedical image classification

We introduce MedMNIST v2, a large-scale MNIST-like dataset collection of standardized biomedical images, including 12 datasets for 2D and 6 datasets for 3D. All images are pre-processed into a small ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Preparing MNIST Image Data Text Files

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research demonstrates how to fetch and prepare MNIST data for image recognition machine learning problems. Many machine learning problems fall into one of three ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Convolutional Neural Networks for MNIST Data Using PyTorch

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research details the "Hello World" of image classification: a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to the MNIST digits dataset. The "Hello World" of image ...