CXR-AD: Component X-ray Image Dataset for Industrial Anomaly Detection

TL;DR

This paper introduces CXR-AD, the first publicly available X-ray dataset for industrial internal defect detection, highlighting its challenges and benchmarking current anomaly detection methods on it.

Contribution

The paper presents the creation of the first public X-ray dataset for internal component defect detection and analyzes its unique challenges and benchmark results.

Findings

Current algorithms perform significantly worse on CXR-AD compared to surface defect datasets.

The dataset reveals three major technical challenges in internal defect detection.

Benchmarking shows a 29.78% performance gap, indicating room for algorithm improvement.

Abstract

Internal defect detection constitutes a critical process in ensuring component quality, for which anomaly detection serves as an effective solution. However, existing anomaly detection datasets predominantly focus on surface defects in visible-light images, lacking publicly available X-ray datasets targeting internal defects in components. To address this gap, we construct the first publicly accessible component X-ray anomaly detection (CXR-AD) dataset, comprising real-world X-ray images. The dataset covers five industrial component categories, including 653 normal samples and 561 defect samples with precise pixel-level mask annotations. We systematically analyze the dataset characteristics and identify three major technical challenges: (1) strong coupling between complex internal structures and defect regions, (2) inherent low contrast and high noise interference in X-ray imaging, and (3) significant variations in defect scales and morphologies. To evaluate dataset complexity, we benchmark three state-of-the-art anomaly detection frameworks (feature-based, reconstruction-based, and zero-shot learning methods). Experimental results demonstrate a 29.78% average performance degradation on CXR-AD compared to MVTec AD, highlighting the limitations of current algorithms in handling internal defect detection tasks. To the best of our knowledge, CXR-AD represents the first publicly available X-ray dataset for component anomaly detection, providing a real-world industrial benchmark to advance algorithm development and enhance precision in internal defect inspection technologies.