463 Outpatient Dental Cases with EMRs and Radiographs from Xinjiang, China

463 complete outpatient dental cases from the First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University integrate structured electronic medical records with paired panoramic radiographs. The dataset spans January 2022 to December 2024 and captures the full diagnostic trajectory documented by five practicing dentists. It was authored by Rui Zhang and released on figshare.

Use Cases

• Training multimodal AI models to correlate structured clinical narratives with radiographic findings.
• Studying clinical reasoning patterns and practice variation across multiple dentists.
• Benchmarking diagnostic support systems that require both text and image inputs.
• Developing natural language processing tools for structured electronic medical records in dentistry.

Strengths

• 463 complete clinical cases provide a substantial sample of real-world outpatient dental practice.
• Each case integrates a structured nine-field electronic medical record with a paired panoramic radiograph.
• Data spans a three-year period from January 2022 to December 2024, offering temporal coverage.
• Captures authentic multi-physician practice variation from five practicing dentists.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its single-source collection from Xinjiang, China.

Provenance

Source

Department of Stomatology, First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University (Xinjiang, China)

Collection Method

Routine clinical care documentation by five practicing dentists.

Time Range

January 2022 to December 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 12:19:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Xinjiang, China