COVID-19 Open Database: Chest X-Ray and CT Scan Images

Chest X-ray and CT images of COVID-19 patients comprise this open-source database released by ahmadhassan7 in June 2020. The collection provides medical imaging data specifically from infected patients to facilitate early-pandemic AI research.

Use Cases

• Training neural networks to identify COVID-19 markers in chest X-ray images
• Developing segmentation masks for lung opacities within chest CT scans
• Benchmarking computer vision models on medical imaging data from infected patients

Strengths

• Dual-modality coverage including both X-ray and CT scans
• MIT licensed for open redistribution and modification
• Publicly accessible GitHub repository for version control

Limitations

• Total record count and sample size are undocumented
• Data is temporally limited to the first half of 2020
• Absence of structured metadata columns or clinical patient history

Provenance

Source

ahmadhassan7 via GitHub

Time Range

Early 2020

Freshness

Last updated June 2020; does not include data from later pandemic waves or variants.