Annotated dataset for retinal fundus image segmentation: vascular arcade and optic nerve head

Digital fundoscopy is an ophthalmological technique used to evaluate the posterior segment of the eye, including the retina and its anatomical structures [1]. This technique acquires fundus images, visually documenting the aforementioned structures. This dataset was generated from a subset of images from the public Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society 2019 Blindness Detection (APTOS 2019 BD) dataset [2], these were manually annotated to generate segmentation masks of anatomical fundus structures, specifically the vascular arcade and the optic nerve head. We contribute to the development and evaluation of artificial intelligence models under comparable conditions by generating data to serve as input for segmentation models, thereby supporting the design of more efficient algorithms for the automated identification of ophthalmological structures [3, 4].

This dataset consists of 500 masks generated from 500 images randomly selected from the APTOS 2019 BD dataset [2]. These are non-homogeneous color fundus images containing global labels for pathological alterations, illumination, as well as varying image resolutions. Image dimensions vary from 474 × 358 pixels to 4288 × 2848 pixels. This dataset provides manual masks for specific ophthalmic structures.