Harisundar/PALL-VLM-data
PALL-VLM-data — Dental Vision-Language Dataset The training dataset for Harisundar/PALL-VLM, a dental vision-language model. It contains 32,884 records over 52,461 images, formatted as image+text conversations for LLaVA-style instruction tuning. Curated by: Harisundar R Used by: Harisundar/PALL-VLM · PALL on GitHub Language: English Layout vlm_train/ ├── images/ # 52,461 dental images ├── train.jsonl # 29,667 records ├── val.jsonl… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Harisundar/PALL-VLM-data.
PALL-VLM-data — Dental Vision-Language Dataset
The training dataset for `Harisundar/PALL-VLM`, a dental vision-language model. It contains 32,884 records over 52,461 images, formatted as image+text conversations for LLaVA-style instruction tuning.
- Curated by: Harisundar R
- Used by: `Harisundar/PALL-VLM` · PALL on GitHub
- Language: English
Layout
vlm_train/
├── images/ # 52,461 dental images
├── train.jsonl # 29,667 records
├── val.jsonl # 1,640 records
├── test.jsonl # 1,577 records
└── manifest.json # provenance / split & source distributionSchema
Each JSONL row is a conversation referencing one or more images:
{
"id": "...",
"source": "oral_cancer_photos_pq",
"task_type": "vqa",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "<image>\n<question>"},
{"role": "assistant", "content": "<answer>"}
],
"images": ["images/rel/path.jpg"]
}The number of <image> tokens in the user turn always equals len(images) (single- and multi-image rows; 7,228 records are multi-image).
Composition
Splits: train 29,667 · val 1,640 · test 1,577.
Task subtypes: classification 23,728 · detection 2,564 · caption 1,231 · report 998 · segmentation 562 · (other 3,801).
Source Attribution & Citations
This dataset was assembled from multiple publicly available dental image datasets and sources. We gratefully acknowledge the original creators.
BibTeX citations for key image dataset sources
@article{panetta2022tufts,
title={Tufts Dental Database: A Multimodal Panoramic X-Ray Dataset for Benchmarking Diagnostic Systems},
author={Panetta, Karen and Rajendran, Rahul and Ramesh, Aruna and Rao, Shishir and Agaian, Sos},
journal={IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics},
volume={26}, number={4}, pages={1650--1659}, year={2022}, doi={10.1109/JBHI.2021.3117575}
}
@article{hamamci2023dentex,
title={DENTEX: An Abnormal Tooth Detection with Dental Enumeration and Diagnosis Benchmark for Panoramic X-rays},
author={Hamamci, Ibrahim Ethem and Er, Sezgin and Simsar, Enis and Sekuboyina, Anjany
and Gundogar, Mustafa and Stadlinger, Bernd and Mehl, Albert and Menze, Bjoern},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19112}, year={2023}
}
@article{ismail2007icdas,
title={The International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS): an integrated system for measuring dental caries},
author={Ismail, Amid I. and Sohn, Woosung and Tellez, Marisol and Amaya, Ashley
and Sen, Ananda and Hasson, Hana and Pitts, Nigel B.},
journal={Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology}, volume={35}, number={3}, pages={170--178},
year={2007}, doi={10.1111/j.1600-0528.2007.00347.x}
}Intended use & limitations
- Intended: training/evaluating dental vision-language models for education and clinical-decision support.
- The set is classification-heavy; evaluation should include an image-shuffle control to guard against modality collapse.
- Wide panoramic radiographs may need tiling/AnyRes for best results (v1 uses square resize).
- Not for autonomous diagnosis. Respect the source licenses of the constituent datasets.
Citation
@misc{rajendran2026pallvlmdata,
title = {PALL-VLM-data: A Dental Vision-Language Instruction Dataset},
author = {Rajendran, Harisundar},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/Harisundar/PALL-VLM-data}},
}