Licenses, compared
Medical imaging data often comes with custom agreements. Each license here answers the same 17 questions, and every answer links to the sentence it is based on.
Our reading of the license, not legal advice. Before you use the data, read the original license and confirm that your use is allowed. We take no responsibility for how you use a dataset. Full disclaimer
In your favor With conditions Restricts you Not stated in the text
| License | Purpose | Commercial use | Train ML models | Create derived data | Publish results | Share the data | Share derived data | Share trained models | Cite or credit | Share alike | Sign an agreement | Ethics approval | Manuscript review | Release code | Return results | Delete after use | No re-identification | Location limits | Datasets |
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| CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | Any purpose | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International | Non-commercial use | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported | Any purpose | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC BY-NC 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | Non-commercial use | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC0 Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal | Any purpose | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | Non-commercial use | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported | Non-commercial use | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported | Any purpose | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International | Any purpose | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| No published terms No published license or data use terms | Not stated | 18 | |||||||||||||||||
| DPAU DAA Dementias Platform Australia (DPAU) Data Access Agreement | Approved project only | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| NDA data use terms NIMH Data Archive Data Use Terms and Conditions (Data Use Certification) | Research | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| PhysioNet RHDL 1.5.0 PhysioNet Restricted Health Data License 1.5.0 | Research | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| A4/LEARN DUA A4/LEARN Data Use Agreement | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ACDC terms ACDC dataset license terms (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with additional terms) | Non-commercial research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ADNI DUA ADNI Data Use Agreement | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| AHEAD 3-45 DUA AHEAD 3-45 Study Data Use Agreement | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| AIBL DUA AIBL Data Use Agreement | Non-commercial research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| AIMS-TBI DUA AIMS-TBI Data Use Agreement (University of Utah) | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| AMYPAD PNHS DUA AMYPAD PNHS Data Use Agreement | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ARIC DMDA ARIC Data and Materials Distribution Agreement | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ASPREE data use policy ASPREE Data Use Policy | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ATLAS Terms of Use ATLAS Terms of Use (University of Southern California) | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| CSIRO Data Licence CSIRO Data Licence | Non-commercial use | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| CUHK CMB-3DCNN terms CUHK 3D CNN cerebral microbleed code and data release terms (readme.txt) | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| CamCAN DUA CamCAN Project Terms and Conditions | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| DIAN Obs data terms DIAN Observational Study Data Request Terms and Obligations | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| DIAN-TU sharing policy DIAN-TU Data and Biospecimen Sharing, Publication, Authorship and Citation Policies | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| DZNE use regulations Regulations for use of Clinical Research databases, data and biomaterials of the DZNE | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| EPAD V.IMI Terms EPAD Terms and Conditions for accessing the V.IMI Dataset | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| HABS DUA Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS) Data Use Agreement | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| HCP Open Access WU-Minn HCP Consortium Open Access Data Use Terms | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ICPSR 38464 RDUA ICPSR Terms of Use and Restricted Data Use Agreement for ICPSR 38464 | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| APTOS 2019 rules APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection Official Competition Rules (Kaggle) | Non-commercial use | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| MEMENTO Charter Access to Memento data and Publication Charter | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| MESA DMDA MESA Data and Materials Distribution Agreement | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| MarkVCID DUA MarkVCID External Data Use Agreement | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| NACC DUA NACC Data Use Agreement | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| NBDC controlled access NBDC Guidelines for Human Data Sharing, controlled-access data | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| NIH CC ChestX-ray terms NIH Clinical Center ChestX-ray dataset terms (FAQ) | Any purpose | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| NSHD DSA Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, Framework Data Sharing Agreement (NSHD) | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| OASIS DUA OASIS Data Use Agreement | Non-commercial research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| PhysioNet CHDL 1.5.0 PhysioNet Credentialed Health Data License 1.5.0 | Research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stanford AIMI RUA Stanford University School of Medicine Dataset Research Use Agreement (AIMI) | Non-commercial research | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| UK Biobank MTA UK Biobank Material Transfer Agreement (data only) | Approved project only | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| fastMRI DSA NYU Langone Health fastMRI Dataset Sharing Agreement | Non-commercial research | 1 |
What you can do
- Commercial useNCU
- Can the data be used for commercial purposes, e.g. to develop a product?
- Train ML modelsNMDS
- Can the data be used to train machine learning models?
- Create derived data
- Can you create derived data, e.g. new labels, segmentations or processed images?
- Publish resultsMOR
- Can you publish results obtained with the data?
What you can share
- Share the data
- Can you pass the original data on to others, e.g. re-host it?
- Share derived data
- Can you share derived data such as labels, segmentations or features?
- Share trained models
- Can you publish or sell model weights trained on the data?
What you must do
- Cite or credit
- Must you cite the dataset or credit its creators?
- Share alike
- Must shared adaptations use the same license?
- Sign an agreement
- Must you sign or accept a data use agreement before access?
- Ethics approvalIRB
- Must your project have ethics (IRB) approval?
- Manuscript review
- Must manuscripts be sent to the data provider before publication?
- Release code
- Must code used in publications be released?
- Return resultsRTN
- Must derived data or results be returned to the provider?
- Delete after useTS
- Must the data be deleted when the project ends?
Limits
- No re-identification
- Is any attempt to identify individuals forbidden?
- Location limitsGS
- Is use limited to certain countries or regions?