LicenseRef-NIHCC-ChestXray · custom agreement
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
- 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
Frontal chest radiographs with disease labels mined from reports, one of the first chest X-ray sets large enough for deep learning, used for multi-label classification and weakly supervised localization. 112,120 images of 30,805 patients with 14 labels, age, sex, view and about 1,000 boxes.