Acronym Resolution Channel Number Dtype Format Annotation Desc Full name Source Image Annotation
DSB2018 (~300, ~300) 1, 3 735 (670/65) uint8 PNG ● (I) Kaggle; Mixture of images here and there; Also known as BBBC038 Data Science Bowl 2018 [DSB2018](https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-bowl-2018) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
StarDist (~300, ~300) 1, 497 (447/50) uint8 TIF ● (I) For StarDist model; Subset of DSB2018; All grayscale StarDist - Object Detection with Star-convex Shapes [StarDist](https://github.com/stardist/stardist/releases/download/0.1.0/dsb2018.zip) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
ComPath (1000, 1000) 3 30 uint8 PNG ● (I) H&E; Instance segmented; dense A Dataset and a Technique for Generalized Nuclear Segmentation for Computational Pathology [IEEE Xplore](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7872382) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
FRUNet (2048, 2048) 1 72 uint16 TIF ● (I) TEM images FRU-Net: Robust Segmentation of Small Extracellular Vesicles [Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49431-3) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
S_BSST265 (430, 550) - (1024, 1360) 1, 3 79 (42/37) uint8 TIF ● (I) IF images; Designed for ML An annotated fluorescence image dataset for training nuclear segmentation methods [Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00608-w) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC006 (520, 696) 2 768 uint16 TIF ● (I) Have z-stack; z=16 is in-focus ones; sites (s1, s2); w1=Hoechst, w2=phalloidin Human U2OS cells (out of focus) [BBBC006](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC006) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC020 (1040, 1388) 2 25 uint8 TIF ● (I) Cell & Nuclei anno; 5 missing annotations Murine bone-marrow derived macrophages [BBBC020](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC020) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC039 (520, 696) 1 200 uint16 PNG ● (I) Samples from BBBC022; Annotated; May have some overlap with DSB2018 Nuclei of U2OS cells in a chemical screen [BBBC039](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC039) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
Cellpose (~383, ~512) 3 608 (540/68) uint8 PNG ● (I) For Cellpose model; Various sources, not only bioimages Cellpose: a generalist algorithm for cellular segmentation [Cellpose](https://www.cellpose.org/dataset) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
LIVECell (520, 704) 3 5239 int32 TIF ● (I) HUGE dataset (3727 train, 1512 test); 3 channels (R, G, B) LIVECell dataset [LIVECell](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01249-6) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
TNBC (512, 512) 3 50 uint8 PNG ● (F) H&E; Triple Negative Breast Cancer Segmentation of Nuclei in Histopathology Images by Deep Regression of the Distance Map [IEEE Xplore](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8438559) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC004 (950, 950) 3 100 uint8 TIF ● (F) 3 channels (R, G, B) Synthetic cells [BBBC004](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC004) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC008 (512, 512) 2 12 uint8 TIF ● (F) F/B semantic segmentation Human HT29 colon-cancer cells [BBBC008](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC008) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
MurphyLab (1024, 1344), (1030, 1349) 1 100 uint8 PNG ● (O) Two annotation formats; Photoshop and GIMP; 97 segmented images Nuclei Segmentation In Microscope Cell Images: A Hand-Segmented Dataset And Comparison Of Algorithms [MurphyLab](http://murphylab.web.cmu.edu/data/2009_ISBI_Nuclei.html) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC007 (400, 400) - (512, 512) 2 16 uint8 TIF ● (O) Outline annotation Drosophila Kc167 cells [BBBC007](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC007) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC009 (600, 800) 3 5 uint8 TIF ● (O) DIC images; 3 channels (R, G, B) Human red blood cells [BBBC009](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC009) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC018 (512, 512) 3 56 uint8 DIB ● (O) Outline anno; One missing annotation (ind=55) Human HT29 colon-cancer cells (diverse phenotypes) [BBBC018](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC018) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC030 (1032, 1376) 3 60 uint8 TIF ● (O) DIC images; 3 channels (R, G, B) Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells [BBBC030](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC030) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC041 (1200, 1600), (1383, 1944) 3 1,328 (1,208/120) uint8 PNG, JPEG ● (U) Bounding box; Not 1368 images as described in BBBC?; RGB and YUV space P. vivax (malaria) infected human blood smears [BBBC041](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC041) image0 image1
DigitPath (2000, 2000) 3 141 uint8 TIF ▲ (F) H&E; partially annotated Deep learning for digital pathology image analysis: A comprehensive tutorial with selected use cases [PubMed Central](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4977982/) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
UCSB (768, 897) 3 58 uint8 TIF ▲ (F) H&E; partially annotated; Two categories (benign, malignant) A biosegmentation benchmark for evaluation of bioimage analysis methods [PubMed Central](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777895/) image0 image1 annotation0 annotation1
BBBC002 (512, 512) 1 50 uint8 TIF X (C) May overlap with DSB2018 Drosophila Kc167 cells [BBBC002](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC002) image0 image1
BBBC013 (640, 640) 2 96 uint8 or uint16 BMP or FRM X (B) Cytoplasm Human U2OS cells cytoplasm–nucleus translocation [BBBC013](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC013) image0 image1
BBBC014 (1024, 1360) 2 96 uint8 BMP X (B) Second channel is usually very clear with a few artifacts Human U2OS cells cytoplasm–nucleus translocation [BBBC014](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC014) image0 image1
BBBC015 (768, 1000) 2 144 uint8 JPEG X (B) 2 channels (Green, Crimson); Texture in green channel Human U2OS cells transfluor [BBBC015](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC015) image0 image1
BBBC016 (512, 512) 2 72 uint8 TIF X (B) 2 channels (G,B); Cells are Blue Human U2OS cells transfluor [BBBC016](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC016) image0 image1
BBBC026 (1040, 1392) 1 864 uint8 PNG X (B, C) Only centers are annotated for 5 imgages Human Hepatocyte and Murine Fibroblast cells – Co-culture experiment [BBBC026](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC026) image0 image1
BBBC021 (1024, 1280) 3 132,000 uint16 TIF X (B) HUGE dataset; 3 channels; DAPI(w1), Tubulin(w2), Actin(w4) Human MCF7 cells – compound-profiling experiment [BBBC021](https://bbbc.broadinstitute.org/BBBC021) image0 image1