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  You agree to apply for access to Fitzpatrick17k images at [Fitzpatrick17k website](https://github.com/mattgroh/fitzpatrick17k), access to DDI images at [DDI website](https://ddi-dataset.github.io/), and access to SKINCON annotations at [SKIN Concepts Dataset](https://skincon-dataset.github.io/index.html) immediately to officially access the raw images used in SkinCAP. You agree that all raw skin disease images can be legally viewed and used only if you have obtained access to them.

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# 🍀SkinCAP: A Multi-modal Dermatology Dataset Annotated with Rich Medical Captions

SkinCAP comprises **4,000** images sourced from the Fitzpatrick 17k skin disease dataset and the Diverse Dermatology Images dataset, meticulously annotated by our dermatologists to provide extensive medical descriptions and captions.


**Our annotation is released!🎉**

- **v240715: Converted English Annotations with Google Translate**

- **v240623: Converted English Annotations with GPT-4**


*To officially access the raw images of skin diseases requires an additional application for entry.

*To get access to Fitzpatrick17k images, please visit [Fitzpatrick17k website.](https://github.com/mattgroh/fitzpatrick17k)

*To get access to DDI images, please visit [DDI website.](https://ddi-dataset.github.io/)

*To get access to SKINCON annotations, please visit [SKIN Concepts Dataset.](https://skincon-dataset.github.io/index.html)



![Figure_1](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/JoshuaChou2018/oss@main/uPic/KMFFzs.Figure_1.png)

# Additional Information

### Acknowledgement

- Fitzpatrick 17k (https://github.com/mattgroh/fitzpatrick17k)
- DDI (https://ddi-dataset.github.io/)
- SkinCon (https://skincon-dataset.github.io)

### Licensing Information

The dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

### Citation Information

```
@misc{zhou2024skincap,
      title={SkinCAP: A Multi-modal Dermatology Dataset Annotated with Rich Medical Captions}, 
      author={Juexiao Zhou and Liyuan Sun and Yan Xu and Wenbin Liu and Shawn Afvari and Zhongyi Han and Jiaoyan Song and Yongzhi Ji and Xiaonan He and Xin Gao},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2405.18004},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
```