VIDS
The Verified Imaging Dataset Standard
An open standard for medical imaging dataset documentation, stewarded by Princeton Medical Systems.
What VIDS Is
Documentation that can be checked
VIDS defines a structured way to document dataset identity, imaging metadata, annotations, provenance, quality information, machine-learning splits and version identity.
VIDS verifies that documentation is present and structured; it does not certify a dataset. It does not judge clinical quality, model performance, bias, authenticity or fitness for a particular use.
Orientation
How the standard is organized
The authoritative specification and rule documentation remain at vidsstandard.org.
Profiles
POC covers core dataset structure, imaging metadata and annotation provenance. Full adds required quality, agreement, class-distribution and machine-learning split documentation.
Validator
The open reference validator reports PASS, FAIL, WARN or SKIP per rule. Install validator 1.2.1 with pip install vids-validator.
Extensions
Extensions adapt the documentation framework to additional modalities and use cases. VIDS-Fundus 1.0 is the first published modality extension.
Reference implementations
Public reference implementations show how the specification is applied and preserve the supporting artifacts with persistent DOI records.
Workflow
Structure → Document → Validate → Version
The validator checks the documentation required by the selected profile. It does not decide whether a dataset is good.
Published Work
Research and reference implementations
VIDS preprint
Muthu and Shalen. VIDS: A Verified Imaging Dataset Standard for Medical AI. arXiv 2604.17525.
LIDC-Hybrid-100
A public VIDS-Full reference implementation with its supporting records. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19582717.
VIDS-Fundus 1.0
A modality extension and metadata-only reference implementation. Specification DOI · Metadata DOI.
Participate
VIDS is governed in public
Read the governance process, follow decisions on GitHub, or contact the standards team at standards@vidsstandard.org.
Read the full specification
The specification, validator documentation and governance records are maintained at vidsstandard.org.
Read the Standard