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NIH Clinical Center ChestX-ray dataset terms (FAQ)

Not a formal license. The NIH Clinical Center's FAQ states that use is unrestricted, but asks users to link to the original download site, acknowledge the NIH Clinical Center and cite the CVPR 2017 paper.

Original license text Edit Purpose: Any purpose Version read: FAQ_CHESTXRAY.pdf as updated 2017-12-14 (per LOG_CHESTXRAY.pdf), read 2026-10-07 Checked 2026-10-07
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In your favor With conditions Restricts you Not stated in the text

What you can do

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes

What you can share

  • Not stated
  • Yes
  • Share trained models Not stated

What you must do

  • Yes
  • Share alike No
  • No
  • No
  • Manuscript review No
  • Release code No
  • No
  • Delete after use No

Limits

  • No re-identification Not stated
  • Location limits No

Datasets under this license

  • NIH ChestX-ray14

    112,120 frontal chest radiographs (PNG) of 30,805 patients from the NIH Clinical Center, with 14 thoracic disease labels text-mined from reports, age, sex, view, an official patient-level split and ~1,000 bounding boxes.