MIMIC CXR
MIMIC-CXR is a large publicly available dataset of chest radiographs with free-text radiology reports. Contains 377,110 images corresponding to 227,835 radiographic studies from 65,379 patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The dataset is de-identified and widely used for medical imaging research, automated report generation, and medical AI development.
MedGemma 4B IT from Google currently leads the MIMIC CXR leaderboard with a score of 0.889 across 1 evaluated AI models.
What MIMIC CXR measures
MIMIC CXR is a multimodal benchmark that evaluates large language models on multimodal, healthcare, and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 1 model on this benchmark, with a maximum possible score of 1. Current average across reported models is 0.9, with the leader reaching 0.9.
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Publication
- Paper
- MIMIC-CXR-JPG, a large publicly available database of labeled chest radiographs
- Authors
- Alistair E. W. Johnson, Tom J. Pollard, Nathaniel R. Greenbaum, Matthew P. Lungren, and 6 others
- Published
- arXiv
- 1901.07042
Abstract
Chest radiography is an extremely powerful imaging modality, allowing for a detailed inspection of a patient's thorax, but requiring specialized training for proper interpretation. With the advent of high performance general purpose computer vision algorithms, the accurate automated analysis of chest radiographs is becoming increasingly of interest to researchers. However, a key challenge in the development of these techniques is the lack of sufficient data. Here we describe MIMIC-CXR-JPG v2.0.0, a large dataset of 377,110 chest x-rays associated with 227,827 imaging studies sourced from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between 2011 - 2016. Images are provided with 14 labels derived from two natural language processing tools applied to the corresponding free-text radiology reports. MIMIC-CXR-JPG is derived entirely from the MIMIC-CXR database, and aims to provide a convenient processed version of MIMIC-CXR, as well as to provide a standard reference for data splits and image labels. All images have been de-identified to protect patient privacy. The dataset is made freely available to facilitate and encourage a wide range of research in medical computer vision.
MedGemma 4B IT leads with 88.9%.
Progress Over Time
Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on MIMIC CXR
MIMIC CXR Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
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| 1 | Google | 4B | — | — |
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