ULMShare: A Large-Scale In Vivo Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Dataset for Microvascular Imaging

arXiv:2606.07851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) enables microscopic imaging of the cerebral microvasculature in vivo, but relies on a multi-stage processing pipeline in which acquisition settings and reconstruction processes strongly influence the final output. Existing public datasets remain sparse, restricting rigorous evaluation and slowing progress in algorithm development, including emerging machine-learning approaches, which by design require large quantities of data to be robust and reliable. We introduce \textbf{ULMShare}, an open-access dataset of 99 whole-brain transcranial ULM acquisitions from 61 healthy mice (36 females, 22 males, 3 unknown; mean age: $8.2 \pm 5.5$ weeks; mean weight: $17.7 \pm 4.2$ g), for a total of 30TB of raw data. The dataset spans three experimental procedures, multiple injection and anesthesia protocols, two ultrasound probes, and different imaging planes and orientations. Each acquisition includes raw ultrasonic data, detailed metadata, an illustrative reconstruction and the corresponding microbubble trajectories. Alongside the data, we report vascular saturation, Fourier Ring Correlation, and track-length statistics, plus expert visual gradings. ULMShare provides a broad, standardized and publicly available resource for method development, validation, and benchmarking. The full dataset is available on the Federated Research Data Repository and additional resources are hosted on the ULMShare Github repository.