{"id":42960,"date":"2026-10-19T12:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/research-looking-for-help-accessing-gemex-mimic-cxr-dataset-for-medical-vlm-research\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:27:58","slug":"research-looking-for-help-accessing-gemex-mimic-cxr-dataset-for-medical-vlm-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/research-looking-for-help-accessing-gemex-mimic-cxr-dataset-for-medical-vlm-research\/","title":{"rendered":"[Research] Looking For Help Accessing GEMeX \/ MIMIC-CXR Dataset For Medical VLM Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently working as a research intern. Our research focuses on developing a lightweight Medical Vision-Language Model for chest X-ray interpretation, particularly Visual Question Answering (VQA), medical reasoning, and reducing hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m specifically interested in the <strong>GEMeX dataset and its corresponding chest X-ray images from MIMIC-CXR on PhysioNet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking to connect with researchers who have previously worked with these datasets or have experience obtaining PhysioNet credentialed access.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone could help with the official access process, image-question matching, downloading the required image subset, or collaborating through an appropriately authorized research setup, I would really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also interested in any legally redistributable alternatives or publicly accessible benchmark subsets.<\/p>\n<p>This is strictly for academic research, and I intend to follow the relevant data-use agreements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GEMeX: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med-vqa.com\/GEMeX\/\">https:\/\/www.med-vqa.com\/GEMeX\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MIMIC-CXR: <a href=\"https:\/\/physionet.org\/content\/mimic-cxr\/2.1.0\/\">https:\/\/physionet.org\/content\/mimic-cxr\/2.1.0\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks in advance for any guidance!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Dry_Parsnip_5133\"> \/u\/Dry_Parsnip_5133 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1x9t29z\/research_looking_for_help_accessing_gemex\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1x9t29z\/research_looking_for_help_accessing_gemex\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-42960 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='42960' data-nonce='b9a40cecc8' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-42960 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-42960 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I&#8217;m currently working as a research intern. Our research focuses on developing a lightweight Medical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}